Music, classical or otherwise, for LOTR
lali, could you post the link to that vid please?
Aravar, I hope you mean Sir John Elliot Gardiner's version of it, where he takes the opening bit at a snails pace, and the fanfaric bits at hyperspeed...
kams: Do Dwarves Do Barbershop? Or is it a sort of "Everyone's singing really low but there're loads of interesting overtones" type thing?
Aravar, I hope you mean Sir John Elliot Gardiner's version of it, where he takes the opening bit at a snails pace, and the fanfaric bits at hyperspeed...
kams: Do Dwarves Do Barbershop? Or is it a sort of "Everyone's singing really low but there're loads of interesting overtones" type thing?
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I imagine Dwarves doing something along the lines of Mongolian throat singing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPFYTRRH ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M3YFK3s ... re=related
Edit: I deleted a redundant post of mine than I thought I had edited away and replaced with this one before posting, but evidently not. My mind is all higgledy-piggledy these days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPFYTRRH ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M3YFK3s ... re=related
Edit: I deleted a redundant post of mine than I thought I had edited away and replaced with this one before posting, but evidently not. My mind is all higgledy-piggledy these days.
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“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Given that they are dwarves and not professional musicians or traveling minstrels, I was just thinking that they'd have a hodge-podge of instruments when they gather. So at Bilbo's hobbit hole, when they sing the tale of their stolen loot, we HOF-folks would be a perfect fit! We could bring drums, viola, piano, clarinet, pennywhistle, bagpipes, guitar and whatever-all-else. Since I don't really play any instrument well, I'd lend my voice.Crucifer wrote:kams: Do Dwarves Do Barbershop? Or is it a sort of "Everyone's singing really low but there're loads of interesting overtones" type thing?
And I'd be glad to take throat-singing lessons if it would land me a trip to NZ and a part in the movie!
This is all akin to what "Flaming Red Hair" did in FOTR.
I can't seem to figure out how to do that. I went to the iTunes store and did a search for Patrick Gowers. It comes up as one of his songs, and you can click on it to listen to a 30 second clip. I don't see a url anywhere to give you. Sorry!Crucifer wrote:lali, could you post the link to that vid please?
kams, I think you're on the right track. Our hodgepodge group sounds like a perfect fit for dwarves--really, for hobbits, too, I think. It's the idea that you play whatever you have on hand, depending on who was there with what instrument.
What is "Flaming Red Hair" in FotR? I have flaming red hair. (Well, it used to be. Now that I'm getting older, it's more like fading red hair.... )
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Just going back to Aravar's suggestion of Elgar's Introduction and Allegro for strings; that is good. The great sweeping sounds fit the sense of openness and waving grass and even horses moving about. Were you thinking of the Ken Russell film for Monitor?
I have thought once or twice about how (some) composers who were contemporary with Tolkien seem to fit his work and if it could be put down to the zeitgeist.
Is Zadoc the Priest the right fit for the coronation of Aragorn? That passage seemed more about dignified humility coupled with an informal acclamation rather than intense pomp. The field of Cormallen perhaps though the music doesn't really last long enough. Perhaps the first meeting with Celeborn and Galadriel?
I have thought once or twice about how (some) composers who were contemporary with Tolkien seem to fit his work and if it could be put down to the zeitgeist.
Is Zadoc the Priest the right fit for the coronation of Aragorn? That passage seemed more about dignified humility coupled with an informal acclamation rather than intense pomp. The field of Cormallen perhaps though the music doesn't really last long enough. Perhaps the first meeting with Celeborn and Galadriel?
I'm not familiar with it, unless it's the version used in The Madness of King George. The version I have is Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert.crucifer wrote:Aravar, I hope you mean Sir John Elliot Gardiner's version of it, where he takes the opening bit at a snails pace, and the fanfaric bits at hyperspeed...
I haven't seen the Ken Russell film, it's just the music evokes that sense of openness.ToshoftheWuffingas wrote:Just going back to Aravar's suggestion of Elgar's Introduction and Allegro for strings; that is good. The great sweeping sounds fit the sense of openness and waving grass and even horses moving about. Were you thinking of the Ken Russell film for Monitor?
I have thought once or twice about how (some) composers who were contemporary with Tolkien seem to fit his work and if it could be put down to the zeitgeist.
Is Zadoc the Priest the right fit for the coronation of Aragorn? That passage seemed more about dignified humility coupled with an informal acclamation rather than intense pomp. The field of Cormallen perhaps though the music doesn't really last long enough. Perhaps the first meeting with Celeborn and Galadriel?
I think for the Field of Cormallen, at least the presentation of Frodo and Sam, that Worthy is the Lamb from Messiah would be appropriate. I agree that Zadok would also be approriate for Celeborn and Galadriel.
I'll think some more about the coronation.
I'll also suggest the first movment of Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Stings for the first approach of Gandalf and Pippin to Minas Tirith. I think it fits well with the great city at dawn.
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If you look in my most recent post in the LOTR TV serial you will see I have juxtaposed Tallis's Spem in Allium with the field of Cormallen.
Ken Russell's film was one of his early works he did for the BBC arts programme Monitor. It was a dramatised biography of Elgar with an actor as Elgar galloping over the Chilterns (?) to the sound of the Introduction and Allegro for Strings. It was very in keeping with the Rohan landscape though a little too lush for the inhabitants.
and yes it is Zadok, sorry for the typo.
Ken Russell's film was one of his early works he did for the BBC arts programme Monitor. It was a dramatised biography of Elgar with an actor as Elgar galloping over the Chilterns (?) to the sound of the Introduction and Allegro for Strings. It was very in keeping with the Rohan landscape though a little too lush for the inhabitants.
and yes it is Zadok, sorry for the typo.
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[still ot] Indeed. [/still ot]Voronwë_the_Faithful wrote:[ot]Lali, I love your new lolcat pic![/ot]
I have a lot more music in my head for pieces of the Sil than LOTR...but in a fit of 70s-centrism I have always associated Elton John's "Funeral for a Friend" with Gandalf and Pippin's ride to MT.
Don't ask me why.
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