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The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films: A Comprehensive Account of Howard Shore's Scores (Book and Rarities CD)The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films: A Comprehensive Account of Howard Shore's Scores (Book and Rarities CD)
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The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films: A Comprehensive Account of Howard Shore's Scores (Book and Rarities CD)
- Music Appreciation
- [Howard Shore] By Doug Adams
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Howard Shore's Academy Award-winning score for The Lord of the Rings has been hailed as among the greatest film music ever written. Sweeping in scope, it is an interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth as music --- an operatic tapestry of cultures, histories, languages, and principles. The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films takes the reader on an unprecedented journey into the heart of this history-making opus with extensive music examples, original manuscript scores, a rarities CD, and fascinating glimpses into the creative process from the composer himself. Includes Exclusive Rarities CD of unreleased LOTR music Color stills from the films. Like the Lord of the Rings story itself, this book is a journey. Adams makes us hear the music, feel the tension or hope or despair through impassioned narrative and a rich musical vocabulary. -Blogcritics ...Could easily be one of the most significant and important books ever written on the analysis of a film score.... a masterwork. -Aint It Cool News An impressive literary debut that will thrill both Rings and soundtrack fans... as meticulous as it is entertaining. -FIlm Music Magazine Compellingly readable... nothing short of masterful. -DauntlessMedia A monumental feat, a superb resource, and above all, a very enjoyable read. -TrackSounds
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The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films: A Comprehensive Account of Howard Shore's Scores (Book and Rarities CD)
- Hardcover: 10 pages (2010-10-05)
- Publisher: Carpentier / Alfred Music Publishing; 2010-10-05
- Label: Carpentier / Alfred Music Publishing
- Studio: Carpentier / Alfred Music Publishing
- ISBN: 0739071572
- Sales Rank in Books: #54150
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72 of 76 people found the following review helpful:  A true milestone of Film Music as Art..., By This review is from: The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films: A Comprehensive Account of Howard Shore's Scores (Book and Rarities CD) (Hardcover) OK, first of all, full disclosure: the author of this book, Doug Adams, happens to be a colleague and friend, and I have thus enjoyed a unique view of the work as it came together over the better part of the last decade. That said, I don't benefit from its sales, nor have I been asked to write this review. I DO write this review because, irrespective of my association with the author, I am a film music journalist myself - and I firmly believe that THE MUSIC OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS FILMS is perhaps the most accomplished and significant analysis of a film score ever published.
Let's begin with an appreciation of the sheer magnitude of the film score under discussion. At the outset, we must note that there is very little in the history of music that can easily be compared to Howard Shore's score for Peter Jackson's film trilogy of THE LORD OF THE RINGS. When you consider that the films are most accurately viewed as one continuous story, with the similarly continuous score...Read more 24 of 25 people found the following review helpful: Beautiful, By This review is from: The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films: A Comprehensive Account of Howard Shore's Scores (Book and Rarities CD) (Hardcover) Way back in high school, I can remember painstakingly scrutinizing great works of English literature. We learned about such things as "thematic devices" and foreshadowing, climaxes and denouements. It struck me that no author in his or her right mind would have consciously focused on all of those plot intricacies unearthed by later scholars. The author would have gone bald from compulsive hair pulling, the work would have collapsed under its own weight, and no one would be reading it today.
Surely, the same must be true of great music. The music of The Lord of the Rings films is among the most intricate and nuanced I have ever heard. And yet, composer Howard Shore, in his own foreword to the book "The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films", states that he takes an intuitive approach to composing. It was up to his friend and constant shadow, journalist Doug Adams, to unearth a treasure trove of details after nine painstaking years of research. His book is surely a...Read more 14 of 16 people found the following review helpful: AMAZING book ..., This review is from: The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films: A Comprehensive Account of Howard Shore's Scores (Book and Rarities CD) (Hardcover) This book is a MUST HAVE for all Lord of the Rings fans ... or Howard Shore fans ... or Tolkien fans, musicians and artists ...it is a beautifully-written, comprehensive walk through the Lord of the Rings films, as expressed in Howard Shore's amazing soundtrack ... showing how Shore's beautiful music is like 'being inside the song' of Tolkien's (and Peter Jackson's) world - and it is beautifully illustrated on almost every page with Shore's music, or artwork by John Howe and Alan Lee, or very high quality stills from the movies! Not to mention a "rarities" disc at the end with "bonus" music and interviewing with Howard Shore - this book has something special to offer for every level of movie fan, Tolkien fan or musician out there! Thank you, Mr. Adams! |
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