Temple of Doom: "Anything Goes" - Cole Porter/John Williams (Score Reduction & Analysis)
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- With the new year here, it's time to delve a little bit deeper into a Williams score, one of my personal favourites. Keep an eye out for the next few cues on David McCaulley's channel, he's done an amazing job at reducing and deconstructing them.
This particular analysis did not cater to my strengths at all, both in terms of the reduction and the annotation. The score was difficult to interpret and very complicated. I'd like to thank David, Dominic Sewell, and h3nryfl0wer who all provided feedback for me on the reduction, which is much appreciated. I'm not a jazzer so my analysis for this one isn't great (not pretending to be an expert here!), but I hope you can still benefit from looking at some top notch orchestration and musical writing. If you find any errors, feel free to let me know. Thanks very much for watching!
PDF Link: mega.nz/folder...
Relevant Links:
Interview between Conrad Pope and John Williams about Conrad Salinger (audio quality is awful, but it's still really interesting!): asmac.org/vide...
I sourced the Williams quotes from the following: thelegacyofjoh..., jackcampey.wor...
Corrections:
The C7 chord at bar 72 of 1M2 is technically over Ab.
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0:00 - Intro
0:11 - Film Version
3:12 - Instrumental
Yeah...you definitely have way more patience than I have! To not only reduce and lay out beautifully this intricately scored music but also to really take the time to understand better a musical language that you say you're not as familiar with is extremely honorable and impressive, so hats off to you! I can't wait to see your other cues finished!
Thanks David, you’re too kind. Likewise, I can’t wait to see yours!
A few months ago I decided to listen to the music from this film. I hadn't ever given it much of a thought before, and now it is one of my favorites in the franchise. I couldn't believe that no one had done any proper video on this score! Especially excited on seeing the Slave Children's Crusade hopefully in the future.
I'm glad you did! It's my favourite score in the franchise.. though it has really great company of course. I remember I initially fell in love with the themes, and that's what caused me to seek out the rest of the score, and it did not disappoint! If all goes to plan, David should be doing Slave Children's Crusade at some point later this year :)) (I'm just as excited as you!!)
You’re my favourite teacher in RUclips! Thank you for sharing and everything ❤ People here say: Now I'll learn! ….but I tell them: You can't! For that you need 50 years of not having any other life and it's still not certain. These people are geniuses of a huge country and they will remain so!
I’m certainly still learning with every analysis I do!
Man, this arrangement must have taken quite some time to condense and analyze. Simply amazing and meticulous work! I'm definitely excited to see what cues you and David have been working on later in the future!
You bet it did, thanks!
Good heavens! This is mind boggling. 😵💫❤❤❤
My mind is still boggled and I finished it a few weeks ago 😵💫
Looking very much forward to you and David McCaulley tackling this Score. Great Analysis as usual. I have to say once again that on a purely visual and quality of production basis, your Score Videos are truly the best. I have to take some time later to truly dive into this.
And thanks for linking that Interview with Conrad Pope. I had not heard that before and its one of those rare, more niche Interviews where John Williams really goes into some Detail and gets to talk more indepth. Hard to believe that he is 88 years old there, recalling and talking so effortlessly and eloquently.
Thanks very much, that means a lot. I love that interview as well, it’s incredibly interesting to get that taste of what Hollywood was like at that time, and hear JW talking about that - still so quick and eloquent!
There is a very uncommon work of Mr. Williams from his suite from Monsignor 1982 titled "Gloria". He mixes Choir, Orchestra and Organ. Check it out! I would love to see that score. But as i said is very rare.
I’d never heard this before, but it’s stunning! I don’t have the score for it at the moment, but if I ever get my hands on it I’d love to have a look. Thanks for the suggestion!
Fantastic analysis, especially on a cue that's a completely different genre than all the previous analysises - greatly looking forward to more content for ToD; I agree that it's a really underrated score.
Especially looking forward to seeing The Broken Bridge/British Belief - I was working on that one myself but the complexity and the illegibility of the manuscript was really draining my motivation...can't wait to see what you come up with!
Thanks very much! One of the reasons I thought it would be a good idea to do this score was because the manuscript is so hard to decipher.. but that’s a double edged sword of course. Looking forward to more of your analyses!
@@patricksuiter Thanks very much! :) The next one (coming very soon) is from a highly underrated 1997 score I've only seen analyses of on your channel - definitely the most complex cue I've looked at so far!
@azeemegizimusic Yay!! I’ll always fight for The Lost World as one of the most interesting and effective scores Williams has ever written. The Streets of San Diego in particular is one of his best action cues in my opinion. Excited to see what you come up with! At some point I will definitely return to it.. still quite a few cues I’d love to look at.
@@patricksuiter Considering all that, I think you'll be happy with the cue I analyzed...it's up now :) - definitely beyond my level to comfortably analyze deeply, but still was fun to explore nonetheless.
@ Indeed, amazing work! Really enjoyed it. It's definitely difficult to dive into the deep end and approach those kind of cues when you haven't really looked at them before, but from my experience it's really the best way to learn how they work! With the rate you're uploading I'm sure it won't take long.
AMAZING! I've always wanted to see more in detail how this piece was notated, and never found it.
Some years ago I was at Birdland Jazz Club in NYC at Cast Party, the big open mic there and someone got up on stage and said he arranged the Anything Goes number for Temple of Doom and then proceeded to play it on piano, very well I might add. I had always thought that the writing on this was way more Broadway oriented than anything JW had ever done. Apparently he didn't get credit for it and I don't remember his name. I have no way of confirming that this is true, but it's possible this part was ghost written.
Very interesting.. Well, throughout my experience working on this cue I haven’t been given any reason to believe JW didn’t write it. But you never know! If you remembered the name I might be able to look into it - I’m sure JW would only trust one of his frequent colleagues with this sort of arranging.
Thank you Patrick,so much to learn here!!
As a wise man once said: “That’s a lot of notes”.
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God, this is easily one of my favorite things JW has ever done, it’s so much fun to listen to. Thank you for such a great analysis!
Completely agree! Thanks LB
Great reduction.
Thanks!
Bravo - this is amazing work. It's a fiendishly complicated arrangement to reduce and I know the original manuscript is barely legible. And where did you get these super crisp versions of the underscore and play-out?
Thanks! Had to spend several hours on each page of the manuscript, drove me mad for a bit! As for the audio, both those come from bootlegs of the score I’ve found online. As I understand it someone went through the process of isolating the music by removing the vocal and tapping from the film stem. They’re up on Ray Stantz’s channel if you want to download them.