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Offline dnephi

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Reminiscences Du Seigneur Des Anneaux
on: June 03, 2007, 01:24:37 PM
There exists a certain competition for composition of a solo piece.  I had thought for a while and I happened upon this thought:  How long has it been since there was a Fantasy on an Opera which shed great light on the Opera and was an outstanding piece of music by its own right? 

I don't know, but instead of Opera, I thought of Lord of the Rings. 

I have a detailed idea of which themes I want to use and how to develop it.  I think this will be particularly powerful because of the use of Leitmotifs in the soundtrack.

What do you think of that?
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Re: Reminiscences Du Seigneur Des Anneaux
Reply #1 on: June 03, 2007, 04:24:51 PM
There exists a certain competition for composition of a solo piece.  I had thought for a while and I happened upon this thought:  How long has it been since there was a Fantasy on an Opera which shed great light on the Opera and was an outstanding piece of music by its own right? 

I don't know, but instead of Opera, I thought of Lord of the Rings. 

I have a detailed idea of which themes I want to use and how to develop it.  I think this will be particularly powerful because of the use of Leitmotifs in the soundtrack.

What do you think of that?

I think this is a terrific idea.  You are going to compose it?  I can't wait to hear the results. Don't lose steam on this project!

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Re: Reminiscences Du Seigneur Des Anneaux
Reply #2 on: June 04, 2007, 09:07:39 PM
I suggested this to a composer friend of mine (not to intrude on your territory) but he said he didn't want to do it, and suggested I should.  Dnephi, what if we both compose such a piece and then compare them after some time.  Let me know what you think.

i've already composed an organ fantasy on the themes of "Ode to Joy" and "Good King Wenceslas," so have a bit experience in this field. :)

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Re: Reminiscences Du Seigneur Des Anneaux
Reply #3 on: June 04, 2007, 09:20:11 PM
OK.  I'll attach my outline ideas.  Want to take a look? :D

Good luck!

Wait, no attachments of .Doc.

Check the link: https://ilocker.bsu.edu/users/dbaker/WORLD_SHARED/Random/Reminiscences du Seigneur Des Anneaux.doc
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Re: Reminiscences Du Seigneur Des Anneaux
Reply #4 on: June 04, 2007, 11:17:37 PM
Sounds like an interesting idea. Love the title btw. The .doc file is disagreeing with my wordpad, however.
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Re: Reminiscences Du Seigneur Des Anneaux
Reply #5 on: June 05, 2007, 12:25:17 AM
Yes I will soon compete with a Fantasy on Spiderman combined with superman and megaman, and i will use Leitmotiv- Technique combined with serial modal nonconformistical 45 tone Composition, usually people only talk about 44 tone composition. Can you BELIEVE that????? 44 tone composition in OUR TIMES??? In 21st century???? Isn't this incredible? But, not enough, I will also combine this with the neoliguistical and neotonalistical approach of Wernerbert Frubiffious. Can anybody ignore him nowadays?  ;D

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Re: Reminiscences Du Seigneur Des Anneaux
Reply #6 on: July 03, 2007, 10:38:03 PM
I may just not grasp all of what you say.

The problem, to my mind, is that the movies have a score already.

I have played some of the individual themes from the LOTR.  I have a book entitled something like "Great Movie Themes." 

They sound great on the piano.  But the music is already written.  What would you do that would be different? 

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Re: Reminiscences Du Seigneur Des Anneaux
Reply #7 on: July 04, 2007, 05:36:45 PM
It's like taking a famous opera tune and writing a fantasy on it.  Cool idea.
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