Close Encounters - "The Conversation" - Transcription
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- I created this score using Finale 2009. I made many judgement calls when choosing things like time signatures, but the instrumentation, pitches and articulations match the performance as best as I can hear. I invite comments, analyses and suggestions!
When things get really busy, a few notes may not be represented on the score. I tried really, REALLY hard to get everything that was audible, but the audio quality isn't perfect, considering that it was recorded in the 1970s, then digitized at 44.1 khz.
I transcribed this by ear, without a keyboard. I used Audacity to slow down the busiest sections of the music after the scientists begin to take over the conversation. In this section, I believe the recording engineer may have recorded some passages at half-speed, then subsequently remixed it at double speed. The parts aren't impossible, but they're improbably complex and very high throughout.
Also, partway through, the playback speed for the sound track is increased by a half-step to elicit the strangely subtle modulation. There are a few measures in this passage that were edited out of some cuts of the film, but which remain in others (and possibly on the soundtrack). I have not included them in the score, but some viewers might wonder where they went - I suggest you ask Mr. Spielberg.
The contabassoon part would normally be notated an octave higher, but considering its migration to the extreme high register (for a contra anyway), I left it in concert pitch. for this video.
This video is meant for educational purposes only. It is the belief of this author that the video qualifies as an analysis and commentary on the copyrighted material and therefore does not infringe on copyright. Besides, there are tons of direct rips of movie and TV footage on youtube that don't attempt to provide any added insight into the material they 'borrow.'
I notice this was published on 9/9/09. Well done, my friend!
this is almost exactly what im looking for. I needed to recreate this in midi so, i guess im doing it by hand.
Fantastic transcription . . .
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One of the most iconic masterpieces written in this century with a mixture of star wars jaws and superman E.T. Jurassic park. which were writen and composed by the same composer John William's
My dingy neighbor was just playing the first 5 notes of this a bit ago. Sounds pretty neat when it's so quiet outside.
Cheer him up, get a mega-phone dial it up to 11 and when plays the 5 tones, as soon as he gets to 3, shout "Pah..PPPAAAHHH" through it. - He might need to change his pants tho.
Jill Anderson then ufo come out
YES!!! Thank you so much for posting!!! You are truly my new best friend!!!
Great transcription!
hermoso sonido me da una sensación de paz y claridad...
You did this all BY EAR! Wow!
I'm glad you did this. The song is really called Wild Signals and I can't find sheet music for it anywhere.
This is My favorite films
The five tones still sound like A - E - I - O - U to me.
Martin Albrecht you've unlocked the language
H-E-L-L-O
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Yes, the fourth tone is the same as the third (C#), just half the frequency!
Tones 1, 3(4) and 5 are notably common in many music forms Worldwide.
The translation of the alien conversation actually goes like this:
“Doo Pee, doo pee, doo pee, doo pee, doo pee, doo pee, doo!! You’re gonna build a mountain (gonna build a mountain), in your living room (in your living room). Gonna build a mountain (build a mountain), and it’s gonna be keen!!”
You can see the mailboxes sing this as a barbershop quartet in “Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind.”
At least, that’s what I heard. 😁
Hmmm... this means something. They keep saying the same thing! I know what this number is.... it’s Pi. 🤣
Excellent
It is all in the tone and then there is harmony of some sort 🙂
Wow kudos !!!!
as they say music is the universal language
Great job!
It would be great to see the original score......
great.
@hotstix12 I ripped the audio from my DVD. Can't tell you exactly what bitrate I chose at this point, but it's nothing fancy. Probably 44Khz, maybe lower. At any rate, it'd be nice to have a really high quality digital copy - it would make the slowed-down playback so much clearer.
excellent!!
I always thought that the human 5-note tone was reminiscent of the refrain played by David Gilmour in Shine on you Crazy Diamond
Very interesting. Thanks!
Anyone else notice how it broke into the "Jaws theme" there at the end?
albusron3490 nice of them to tell us they have sharks on the ship.
Of course.... It was to connect Close Encounters and Jaws because they had the same director and musical composer.....
Of course we did lol
That’s good ole Steven at his best
If you watch the movie with captions it’ll tell you the jaws theme plays.
1:15
Humans: "We declare war on your inferior species."
Aliens: "Who're you callin' inferior? We'll vaporize your planet faster in the blink of an eye, just you watch! You'll get to experience Alderaan's fate!"
Humans: "Show us you have the balls!"
Aliens: "That's it! Your days are numbered!"
*comms cut off*
Keyboard guy: "What did you have me say to them?"
CO: "Invited them to watch the World Series and have some beer and nachos. Asked them if this Saturday's okay. They said yes."
As someone below previously mentioned I would also suggest using the actual track on the soundtrack album as there is no editing and the time changes are more steady and it is easier to hear everything. Also, when the tuba kicks in with those Db quarter notes the tuba also plays those eighth runs that you have notated in the contrabassoon line. So either there were two tuba and two contrabassoons or for time and resource sake, just did a multitrack recording with the same players. Just thoughts.
@tubamanRW Yeah man, you're right about those tuba runs. I have it in the back of my mind to redo this video using the soundtrack, but I have way less time on my hands nowadays. Are there big differences between the two? Would it be worth it?
He says the sun came out last night. He says it sang to him...
Mark... Can I have a copy of your "conversation" score sheet? I think you did a fabulous job. I tried your website but your domain is avilable for purchase.
Then the 5 Tones was used again for a _Moonraker_ key pad.
Yep Ab, the 5 note tune outlines a Abmaj(add9) chord.
This is a cool, memorable, impressive whatever tune. But I think it effective at making people strange and spiritual while watching NOT because if the tune or melody. It is a cinematic music trick so to speak. The composer takes the wind instruments that play very high short notes and contrasts them with the deepest loudest tuba sound (or whatever is the brass instrument that is). That is what makes the listener excited when it alternates fast. I think John Williams and some other composers recycle this method in their films regularly. It’s also why when you watch a science fiction film from someone like Spielberg and can hear very deep “drone” sound when aliens or some menacing or mysterious thing appears.
How did you make the nine-note grupetto of bar 97? I use Finale and it has been impossible for me to do the nine note.
They said....be a different like us and use this to make EDM
So what was the communication?
What information was exchanged besides teaching vocabularies, anyone know?
#kudos
Contrabassoon makes this
@xpy1000
Those are not jaws tones, that's actualy how the music sounded.
If you could send the sheet music of this transcription that would be great!!! Not for any performance, just for my personal enjoyment and my family loves this part of the film.
I love it •●■♤♡☆
I would love to have a pdf of this for my students! PM me please!
Music 0:27
DVD audio is 48khz
is there any chance i could have the file, so i can translate it to midi and light up my studio with coloreds pads?
BoneYard No. Never got a file. Did make another kid in the meantime, though!
There used to be a version of the conversation that was "translated" in a funny way, but I can't find it anymore... I think it might have been taken down :(
I think the vibraphone is missing.
do you have this in pdf form? thanks!
what does it mean ?
The first part was the humans showing that they learned part of the Alien Language. The Aliens were trying to teach them more, but when the aliens realized all they knew were those five tones, it spent most of it's language trying to teach them how to talk like them. The rest is pretty much a casual conversation. "Hi how are you, sorry we took your stuff and people. We were just curious, we'll give them back to you now. Hey did anyone of you get our other messages. Only two made it. Ok he can come with us." The last bit referring to Neary getting their message and his crazy antics of recreating Devil's tower wondering what it meant.
i could do that...lol kidding amazing work man
Polyethylene
Can I get a copy of this transcription?
Anyone notice the "Jaws" tones at the end?
Nice little touch...
Love the part where he says "taking note of this conversation now" and the song was already half over.. So unprofessional. Lol
Kevin Williams I thought he said “we’re taking over this conversation, now”. In the film, after he says that, the keyboard that the musician was playing on starts to play by itself. I always assumed that the technology they were using to record the ufo’s conversation figured out the pattern in the alien vocabulary and started replying with similar patterns.
@@albertalvarado4078 hahaha OK.. Could have sworn I heard it that way but yours sounds more plausible. Thanks
Is it Lydian? Anyone?
We come in peace, we come in peace, we come in peace. (Mars Attacks)
@StarWarsFan786 Can you email a copy of them to me please?
Catchy tones and impressive scene but the whole conversation aspect here is of course complete bullshit. There is no conversation nor teaching going on. It's just music. It's figurative when he should have been literal.
The ETs are telepathic and they communicate that way. Or they learn our language and speak it. And they don't bother with romantic dates like this. They just go straight to the medical rape :) at least some of the little grey bastard ones. There are many others, including humans not from earth. Those guys seem nicer although they are perfectly willing to let earth remain a lie. Probably until you sheep wake up.
speak for your self ... everything's a lie brother the sooner you know that the less you'll feel the weight and anxieties of primordial superstitions . words need to be harnessed not worshiped or to be lead by.
Mike Piazza You partake don't you?
Dan Frederiksen i partake in all things in life that i can still enjoy. "its all quantum babel bullshit to me at this point brother" i just make sure i have "Qi "on everything : )
Are you... what? Are you aware this movie was a work of fiction? Hahaha.
Qurialedrilin who are you talking to?