Whats the point of reading sheet music? Unless you're unlocking the secrets of the universe I'd rather listen to music.
What's the point of reading sheet music? Well, unless you are a musician, there is no point in reading sheet music unless you enjoy reading it, I suppose. That's really all there is to it. No point in doing it if you don't much care for doing it. :-)
Personally, I got a few film scores as sheet music to brush up on my music reading skills, which are quite rusty and underdeveloped. So I got some classical music sheet music by Beethoven, Debussy, Mahler, etc., but I find it interesting to look at the full printed score of a film score like TOTAL RECALL, that's really all there is to it. I enjoy looking at the "nuts and bolts" of things. (Come to think of it, I enjoy blueprints too, even fictional ones, such as blueprints of the "USS Enterprise"... not much point in them either, unless you simply enjoy them.)
Reading sheet music is like reading screenplays; there is not much point in reading screenplays if you don't enjoy it for some reason.
Whats the point of reading sheet music? Unless you're unlocking the secrets of the universe I'd rather listen to music.
What's the point of reading sheet music? Well, unless you are a musician, there is no point in reading sheet music unless you enjoy reading it, I suppose. That's really all there is to it. No point in doing it if you don't much care for doing it. :-)
Reading sheet music is like speaking Klingon. I can't do either.
I wanted the main theme to First Blood, which I intended to play on guitar. I started transcribing it but never finished.
That's the annoying thing about doing your own transcriptions. You have to pick apart music you love. For me, that takes away from the pure enjoyment of the music itself.
Lyssa's Theme from Krull has a piano transcription I've yet to find.
That said, I did find the one for Have A Nice Trip from Explorers and I didn't pay out of the nose for it, so we live in hope.
The one thing I *know* doesn't have a piano folio is f*cking Spacecamp, particularly that End Credits piece. I'd love to pour over that one for a while.
I always wished they'd release some film scores by Jerry Goldsmith as sheet music, since I was interested in how the synthesizers or other unusual instruments in his scores were written down. For that reason I was quite happy that Omni published TOTAL RECALL. If they ever publish STAR TREK - THE MOTION PICTURE, I'm all in.
I always wished they'd release some film scores by Jerry Goldsmith as sheet music, since I was interested in how the synthesizers or other unusual instruments in his scores were written down. For that reason I was quite happy that Omni published TOTAL RECALL. If they ever publish STAR TREK - THE MOTION PICTURE, I'm all in.
They publish a folio for NEW YORK, NEW YORK. They include the period songs (most of them, I think). They include the Kander & Ebbs, and even "Happy Endings." They even include a few period songs not used in the film.
But they DON'T include the "mini songs" that K&E did for the "Happy Endings" production number: "When Mr. Right Comes Along" and "Aces High".
The Pink Panther theme (complete with opening piano chord, bridge) Space: 1999 main titles (S1, 2) Star Trek main title (no lyrics, with Courage’s second season version of opening fanfare) JW’s S3 Lost in Space Theme Folio of selections from Visions of Eight, The Great Waldo Pepper (Mancini) Folio from The Natural (including Prologue transcription) Space Camp Main Title
Non film
Folio of songs from Trouble in Paradise (IMO, Randy Newman's best solo album)
I own many composer compilations, some that were expected and some that were more surprising....John Williams, James Horner, Elmer Bernstein, Franz Waxman, Ennio Morricone....
But I've never seen a Jerry Goldsmith compilation. If we ever do get one, I hope it doesn't just cobble together the already released stuff in the same arrangements. I would love a thorough compilation representing the span of his entire career. Maybe Rio Conchos, Flint, Papillon, Gremlins, Medicine Man, The Mummy, etc.
