Star Wars vs. Lord of the Rings

Explain please.

 

Yeah, I don't get this either.

 

He ripped of JW's score and wanted to compose ROTS? That's what I'm getting, but I trust Gneral Kenobi can explain.

 

Palpatine to Anakin aboard the Invisible Hand:

"It is only natural. He cut off your arm and you wanted revenge."


I was making a joke. Get it now?

 

Star Wars Ep.IV,in particular.

John Williams is just the hands-down master as far as providing accurate musical commentary
as well as coming up with textures that would make it seem that the movie could never exist without the score and vice-versa.
It takes someone with just the flat out gift of music to comment on how dry it is on Tatooine
using winds and percussion.It also takes someone with intelligent ears to be able to make winds and strings seem as much a part of the sounds of X-Wings taking off from the 4th Moon as the sound FX itself.

I just don't hear a lot of "genius" in todays scores like I do with Star Wars.I hear a lot of budgets and foreshortened work schedules and certainly,more than enough "scores by committee".

Maybe what I'm really getting at here is,where is the next "John Williams"....?

 

If you took a person who has never seen either LOTR nor SW, I think they would like LOTR better. BUT SW music fits the SW films much better than how LOTR music fits the LOTR films. Therefore as a score, SW is better but for music in general, LOTR is better. When I listen to LOTR, I keep thinking "now where in the movie did this piece come in"? But with SW, u instantly recognize which scene or which character the piece is about.

 

"When I listen to LOTR, I keep thinking "now where in the movie did this piece come in"?"

This site should prove most helpful to you.




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I suppose that depends entirely upon how often you listen to the music. While I like SW music better than LOTR, I listen to it from time to time and know where in the movies the music can be found. My favorite piece is from ROTK when Frodo and company are passing Minas Morgul. Still, it's not nearly as enjoyable as "The Asteroid Field" from ESB or, more recently, "Battle of the Heroes."

 

this is tough for me
i like them both but lets see
Sw:
better music (ilove orch.)
seet in the future
good acting
great imaganation



lotr:
music ok
love dark-ish, old-ish style
hotter actors
classic


ok i still go with them both being equally awsome

 

This thread is focusing on the music, not how "hot" the actors are.

 

OMG! No talking about hot actors or actresses in teh Music Forum!

Indeed, the point of this thread is to compare John Williams' music of SW to that of Howard Shore's in LOTR.

 

SW completely owns it.

 

I think Star Wars might be set before our current time. Perhaps even LOTR time.

 

OMG, did you see that shot that comes up before the Star Wars music starts?

It says "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away"!




But we get to listen to the wonderful music of both now in 2005!!

 

Both are incredible.

My PERSONAL opinion is that Star Wars is better.

 

hmmmm,

Both full sets (LOTR and SW) fill their respective roles very well. As an orchestration exercise i think the SW stuff shows a LOT more variation and harmonic knowledge (JW is pretty good at this!!). LOTR has a great use (overuse?) of Horns. Big and bombastic (and i happen to know multitracked).

As for a recording - despite the fact that LOTR uses very heavy multitracking the actual recordings are vastly inferior to SW. Heavily compressed and a pretty phasey sound (a lot of chorusing on the horns due to the multitracking). Abbey road (especially S1) has a much clearer sound than CTS.

So - overall - id plump for SW but i do like the massive horns (chorusy or not) in LOTR. Williams is a little more experienced and it shows


rising stars? in my eyes another composer named Jonny Williams. i work with him a lot at Abbey road. Just finished working on 24 with him and Sean Callery - with real orchestra - goodbye synths on 24 !!