Actually, I'd love to see one of John Williams' (or maybe Howard Shore's) sketch scripts. How much orchestrating do they really do? In the case of John Williams, I think he does quite a bit since he has made a living by borrowing orchestrations from Romantic and Modern concert music. In the film biz, I doubt any composer can completely fill out a score with the time considerations that exist. Moreover, knowing that much of music will be composed for deleted scenes, it's probably even more of a practical approach. After the initial takes, I wonder if these composers go back and re-work some of the orchestrations as well as the core music. That would add yet another layer of complexity to knowing "who" is the orchestrator.
Mike ***************** Michael O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of dhbailey Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 4:21 PM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] MIDI transcriptionism Dean M. Estabrook wrote: > Son of a gun ... I thought John Williams did all his own orchestration. > Learn something every day. > > Dean > [snip] I bet if you asked him, he would tell you he DOES do his own orchestration -- meaning that he specifies which instruments play which notes when. I doubt that he would allow that his simply specifying a C major chord in the horns and having his "clerk" voice it would indicate that he isn't the one doing the orchestrating. The degree of orchestration and how that affects who should get the actual credit is one that I am sure there isn't much consensus on, with the actual composers claiming one thing and the orchestrators claiming another. Somewhere within the past year there was a lengthy (and at times very argumentative) thread on arrangement vs. transcription vs. orchestration. I could have sworn it was on this list, but it could have been on orchestralist. At any rate it was very clear that while each of us may have our own fairly clear-cut definitions of these terms, very few others actually agree with us concerning all of them. -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
