[HN Gopher] How to Write Music for Rolling Boulders
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       How to Write Music for Rolling Boulders
        
       Author : danso
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2023-07-07 17:21 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | blipvert wrote:
       | ngl, had kinda hoped that it was going to be about this -
       | https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jXNLXqB6KhI
        
       | danso wrote:
       | Gift link:
       | https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/07/opinion/india...
        
         | tgv wrote:
         | Thanks for that.
         | 
         | I do find the style too contrarian, though.
         | 
         | "Yet the music, with its tonal range and depth of expression,
         | enthralled me as completely as Dvorak or Stravinsky or Bach."
         | 
         | Perhaps it's true for the author, but William's music is
         | foremost functional, and can best be compared to the lighter
         | late Romantic repertoire. It usually makes me think of opera.
         | It serves to underscore a few emotions, mainly "danger" and
         | "excitement". It is very well done, and sometimes downright
         | beautiful, but it doesn't have the development of Beethoven and
         | Brahms, nor the contrapuntal and harmonic depths of Bach, nor
         | the innovations and quirkiness of Stravinsky, nor the subtlety
         | of Ravel. It doesn't follow its own path, but the flow of the
         | movie (although Mickey Mousing is too strong for his better
         | known works). It's also written 100 years too late.
         | 
         | I greatly admire Williams, but if I had to, I'd gladly exchange
         | his oeuvre for Bach's 18 great chorale preludes, Schubert's
         | string quintet, Beethoven's Grosse Fuge or Finzi's Eclogue.
        
           | js2 wrote:
           | I will never forget the experience of seeing _Die Hard_ on a
           | big screen and the vault being cracked open to _Ode to Joy_ :
           | 
           | https://youtu.be/sLMRh62sazs?t=170
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           | Recently I saw _Runaway Train_ for the first time. The final
           | scene is set to Vivaldi 's _Gloria in D Major_ :
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           | https://youtu.be/VdBd5Hwd1Tg?t=207
           | 
           | What are your favorite examples of classical music in movies?
        
           | gumby wrote:
           | It's commercial art, equivalent to the work that, say,
           | accompanies an ad, or a newspaper article. Nobody would sit
           | down and listen to the musical score of Star Wars without the
           | film playing at the same time.
           | 
           | He may have written other, more interesting work but I've
           | never heard any.
        
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