Leandro Gardini
- 7 de mai. de 2020
News about the John Williams project
It's been a while since the last post, and from time to time, I receive messages of people asking questions about The John Williams Compositional Techniques book.
I am glad that the material presented on this blog has helped many composers around the world. The feedback that I received during these last years served me as a fuel to keep it up. From the lack of new posts, some followers may think my studies came to a halt, but actually, the opposite is right.
The deep and ti
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Leandro Gardini
- 30 de jul. de 2017
The Chaotic Mind of John Williams
One of the most required musical expressions in action film music is chaos. Though less and less used nowadays, chaotic textures provide incomparable richness to the scenes and cannot be taken for granted. “Out of chaos comes order” Friedrich Nietzsche Having this principle in mind we are going to have an opposite approach to it. It means that only with order we can created chaos, in music. John Williams chaotic textures sound so good because he does not follow the common bel
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Leandro Gardini
- 25 de mar. de 2017
Composing and Orchestrating Through Relative Range
Even though John Williams is mostly known for his big epic orchestral writings, he has also proven to be a fine writer of choral music. In several of his scores he uses vowels and vocal effects to support the orchestra. These have become common usage for film music composers of many generations. However, John has also been using the choir as the main element of his music in many situations and he sometimes uses the relative range technique to create a more dramatic and lyrica
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