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Funny thing about Barry and how he creates themes: Usually he's looking at the characters and their motivation, but other times he draws his inspiration from sometimes the oddest things. I think with "007" he thought urgency and then built those opening rat-tat-tat staccato notes on the sound of a telegraph.
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The best listening version of "007" is a cover, the one by Roland Shaw. It wouldn't work in a movie, especially today, but as music for its own sake it's fantastic.
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I’ve also always thought “The Chase Bomb Theme” from Octopussy had some of Barry’s 007 theme in it. But I don’t recall ever reading If it Barry did it on purpose or not.
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The 007 theme is built on a 'device' Barry used regularly—the 3-3-2 rhythm pattern.
Y'know ... UM-pa-pa-UM-pa-pa-UM-pa
The Chase Bomb Theme is not a version of the 007 theme, it just uses the 3-3-2 rhythm pattern, and it shows up frequently in his work.
Cheers
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Some other uses of the 3-3-2 pattern in Barry's work:
The second half of the Game of Death main title.
Charlie Gets The Knife from High Road to China
The cuts to the hurrying boat of the Voodoo attack sequence in The Deep.
Sit Him High in Monte Walsh.
The Chase Is On from The Chase.
Practically all the music in the last act of The Tamarind Seed.
It shows up a lot.
Cheers
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The 007 theme is built on a 'device' Barry used regularly—the 3-3-2 rhythm pattern.
Y'know ... UM-pa-pa-UM-pa-pa-UM-pa
I can't hear what the heck you're talking about. I just replayed the 007 tracks in FRWL and Thunderball, and don't hear that pattern at all.
The intro line goes like
pa-pa
pa-pa
pa
pa-pa
PAAAH-pa
And when the main melody comes in, it's like
Bah-BAAAHH
Bah-Bah-Bah
BAAAHH-Bah
Where do you get "UM-pa-pa-UM-pa-pa-UM-pa" out of that? I mean, I'm sure I'm wrong, but I just don't get it!
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The 007 theme is built on a 'device' Barry used regularly—the 3-3-2 rhythm pattern.
Y'know ... UM-pa-pa-UM-pa-pa-UM-pa
I can't hear what the heck you're talking about. I just replayed the 007 tracks in FRWL and Thunderball, and don't hear that pattern at all.
The intro line goes like
pa-pa
pa-pa
pa
pa-pa
PAAAH-pa
And when the main melody comes in, it's like
Bah-BAAAHH
Bah-Bah-Bah
BAAAHH-Bah
Where do you get "UM-pa-pa-UM-pa-pa-UM-pa" out of that? I mean, I'm sure I'm wrong, but I just don't get it!
My thoughts exactly, lol. UM-pah-pah is what we hear when Stan Laurel plays his intro for Ollie when he tries to serenade the object of his desire in Swiss Miss, Let Me Call You Sweethearthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbp7iEs0AJ0 about nine seconds in. DEFINITELY UM-pah-pah.
Doesn't sound anything like 007!
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The 007 theme is built on a 'device' Barry used regularly—the 3-3-2 rhythm pattern.
Y'know ... UM-pa-pa-UM-pa-pa-UM-pa
I can't hear what the heck you're talking about. I just replayed the 007 tracks in FRWL and Thunderball, and don't hear that pattern at all.
It's because you're focusing on the foreground (trumpets, the introducing timpani, etc.). Listen to the '007' track from FRWL again. Listen the the backgound pattern (played on snare drums, etc) that comes in at about 6 seconds. That's IMHO what Stephen is talking about.
Also listen to Thunderball, for example the whole 'Death of Largo' track : it's full of it ! (obvious soft statement of that pattern on snare drums at 00:30). And of course listen to the pattern as an ostinato at 01:50 !
Note : When you say you're just hearing :
"pa-pa
pa-pa
pa", you're not absolutely wrong.
It's because you don't take the silence into account.". If you do (marked 'x' below and UM in Stephen's post), you'll find the 3/3/2 pattern :
"x-pa-pa
x-pa-pa
x-pa"
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I do wonder why this theme never showed up in any of the later Bond films. After DAF in 71, it appeared in Moonraker in 79, but that was it. I'm not as familiar with the more recent Bond movies or scores so I don't know if it's been used recently.
I always thought it was a great theme that could be played many different ways to fit not only action scenes, but slower scenes as well.
I think my favorite incarnation of this theme is in Thunderball - hard hitting with the swirling strings behind it.
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It could be played in various ways really. Imagine a scene where Bond is traveling to some visually stimulating location (as he often does). The 007 theme could be arranged in a way to fit a flyover or something similar.
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