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Subject: King Arthur Movie Soundtrack
Category: Arts and Entertainment > Movies and Film
Asked by: quicknshiny-ga
List Price: $10.00
Posted: 24 Jan 2005 15:48 PST
Expires: 26 Jan 2005 13:53 PST
Question ID: 462678
I am looking for score information (time signatures, key signatures,
instrumentation, etc.) from the 2004 movie "King Arthur" soundtrack.

I need this infomation as the basis for a report on "How a soundtrack
fits with movies"
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Subject: Re: King Arthur Movie Soundtrack
From: pinkfreud-ga on 24 Jan 2005 15:58 PST
 
This may be helpful:

http://www.cinemusic.net/reviews/2004/king_arthur.html
Subject: Re: King Arthur Movie Soundtrack
From: markj-ga on 25 Jan 2005 11:34 PST
 
quicknshiny --

I asked my music composition PhD candidate son with perfect pitch to
listen to audio samples of each piece from Amazon.com's listing of the
soundtrack CD and report back on the key signatures and time
signatures of each.  He also added a few comments on the 
instrumentation.

While I have total confidence in the accuracy of his ear, you should
keep in mind that time and key signatures and instrumentation can
change in the course of a piece of music, so 30-second clips are not
necessarily an authoritative source for your information.

Anyway, in the hope that it may be of some use to you, this is what he had to say:

1 - "Tell Me Now": C Major, 4/4, processed voice with synthesized
choral accompaniment

2 - "Road to Ruin": e minor, 4/4, strings (and male chorus?) with drum

3 - "Do You Think I'm Saxon": d minor, 4/4, brass (and low strings?) and percussion

4 - "Hold the Ice": a minor/d minor, 4/4, voice with high strings

5 - "Another Brick in Hadrian's Wall": d minor, 4/4, orchestra (at
least strings and brass and percussion)

6 - "Budget Meeting": ambiguous tonality leading into c minor, 4/4,
full orchestra & chorus

7 - "All of Them": d minor, 4/4, voice, strings & winds


If, with the caveats I have stated, this information completely meets
your needs, please let me know, and I will post it as an answer.


markj-ga
Subject: Re: King Arthur Movie Soundtrack
From: quicknshiny-ga on 26 Jan 2005 13:53 PST
 
MarkJ!
Bravo!!
this is great stuff!
i beleive this will do it. for the main theme (consisting of a
three-note motif) i was debating on if it might be in 4/4 or a
possible 6/8 time. so if you could ask your son that would be great.
thank you and your son 
i am most greatful for your research

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