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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Leandro Gardini
- 25 de fev. de 2017
Vision and Purpose
The six first articles of The John Williams Compositional Techniques have been a great success. We wish to thank everyone that got involved with them, hoping that they added value to your knowledge. From now on we are moving to the next step of the project which means that the articles will continue to come, but less frequently. Working on such as project requires a lot of responsibility and preparation and, since we are talking about a great composer, we are committed to del
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