Flight of the Hippogriff - John Williams (Score Reduction and Analysis)
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Thanks for sharing this! To me, the most notable and unexpected element of this is from bar 19, when we get the full flight theme, which sounds triple meter to the ear, but is written as alternating bars of 4/4/ and 2/4. I'm not sure what the intend benefit or advantage of this is, but it's very curious to see it written that way on the page. It's also interesting to see how much of the orchestration is devoted to the pulsating quavers, and the arpeggiating winds, which of course are all fundamental to the (aero)dynamic nature of the cue, yet so subtle. Great work!
Hey, thanks for your comment!
Yeah I found that very weird at the start as well...
The only reason I can see for him to write it that way would be create a sort of lifting feeling between the chords (which also fits the situation). Williams repeats the given chord in the score, though I must say that it's not really audible. I guess the first time you can really feel that "lift" is in bar 28, as the timpani hits.
@@PlayFtopayrespect Good point :-)
I'm not too sure what to add in response to this comment but it's a great observation. I've analyzed other Williams scores where he will frequently do something like this. Say, the music is in 4 but the melody, to the ear, sounds like it's in 3. Stravinsky used to do that a lot as well - you can find it all over The Rite of Spring! Great comment, great analysis. We're lucky to live in an era where great information of this nature is a few clicks away.
To understand what is going on in this music at all, we will need two human lives!!
Just BRAVO 👏👏👏
You're very welcome! Thanks for watching
I always liked what JW did with the concert toms for this scene/film. I felt like it was the perfect symphonic answer to the "epic drums" that have taken over most film scores. I mean, I love epic drums too, but beating the crap out of some concert toms (and timpani!) is awesome as well :)
For sure!
To me there's something kind of passionate and much more natural to pushing the dynamic capabilities and boundaries of acoustic percussion instead of merely increasing the gain of an orchestral drum vst. Really cool stuff indeed!
Thank you for your comment :)
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I can hear some inspirations from the "Allegro con brio" of Brahms' Symphony 3
Thanks for doing a score reduction on this ! I was having trouble finding that piano part. Can you do Half Blood Prince “opening” by Nicholas hooper ?
Hey Mathew!
You're welcome, I'll definitely consider reducing the score of the opening from hp6!
For now I can't really find it though :(
I'll be on the lookout though thanks :)
This is good work! Did you have access to the original score?
Hey Lewis!
Yeah I only used the original typeset orchestral score and reduced it to a maximum of 5-6 staves, same as in all my other videos.
All the best and thanks for watching!
Increíble!
2:36 - the drums! from Azkaban?
It isn't 2 bassoons playing but 2 clarinets
Hey Afonso,
I appreciate the feedback!
What specific passage are you referring to?
@@PlayFtopayrespect you're welcome. Bar number 4. And that section will also repeat at bar number 16 (if I'm not wrong)
Ah yes, you're right of course, but I made a comment about that in the video itself (the Block of text at M.4).
The instrumentation was changed between versions of the score. The one I had still had this pattern in the bassoons instead of the clarinets, so that's what I wrote down.
Thanks anyway! :)
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