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Who do you think those five composers are, besides Williams?
Contemporary film music not being written by hand is a huge factor. I am not a composer but I can tell when listening to certain composers how much work went into a piece. I own several sheet music pieces by Williams and even the best of those piano reductions can't match the orchestral versions. A lot of that has to do with how detailed the orchestrations are. Whereas something like the Pirates of the Caribbean theme can be reduced to a melody on top and bass/rhythm on bottom, Williams adds so much to his pieces. There's those woodwind flourishes that end many phrases, the pulsating brass rhythms and all those added touches that make his scores so memorable.I don’t love contemporary film music the way I did even in the 1990s—in fact, I don’t even like it. I kind of can’t stand most of it. There are all sorts of aesthetic reasons why—but it’s quite likely a major reason that it’s simply not “written” anymore.
It’s neither composed by hand, nor by a single artist. It’s by a small army of anonymous musicians operating software doing musical sound design—then, under larger budgeted situations, re-recorded in whole or part by an orchestra.
Agreed. I think Altered States is one of the most arresting scores ever written, and I personally find it quite listenable away from the film -- and sixty-billion times more interesting than anything in an MCU movie.Monterey Jack wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 10:29 am Even wildly atonal film music of the past still felt like something that was actually written out by proper musicians. Goldsmith's Planet Of The Apes isn't exactly a score you can whistle along to, yet it's fascinating, arresting music that -- more than any other aspect of the movie -- makes you honestly believe you're on another planet.
Howard Shore is by all accounts one of them. Broughton probably writes by hand. I would not be surprised if Randy Newman still writes by hand. I don't know who else. John Corigliano also writes by hand, tho he hasn't done a film in years.
I'd guess he probably does. He doesn't seem to have as heavy a workload as others. Tho his dad had a whole staff of ghostwriters at Fox!