Talk:Music of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy

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Star Wars music could be a good exemple of what this page should look like.

Contents 1 References 2 Article quality 3 Complete Recordings 4 tritone 5 Reconstruction 6 Themes 7 Score 8 Nice article - suggest some merging

[edit] References

There is presently absolutely NO references. Trimmo 18:27, 27 February 2006 (UTC).

I can fix that next week; hell, anyone with the CR box that hasn't lost the accompanying booklet can do that. I'll do it if no one does it by then. Ours18 02:20, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article quality

This article is just not interesting at all. We learn nothing by reading it. We can't even read it since it is just an incomplete list of non-interesting informations about Shore's work (the track listing of each CD is particularly useless). If I compare it to Star Wars music, this article is absolutely nothing. Somebody, a fan of Shore's music for the Lord of the Rings, should do a great clean-up of this article. Or perhaps we should just delete it... Trimmo 17:30, 7 June 2006 (UTC).

Also, with the release of the Complete Recordings there is much more information about the themes and motives of the score(s) that is presented in this article either not very thoroughly or outright incorrectly. Poke Alex 16:49, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Complete Recordings

This article needs some serious info as to the status of the Complete Recordings for the other two films. Darth Sidious 06:34, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] tritone

I'm not sure but does the ring theme start with a tritone? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.41.99.9 (talk • contribs) .

No, it does not. The interval is a minor second. The notes of the theme (transposed to make it easier to understand) are: E, F, E, F, E, D, F, E, A. Nationalparks 20:59, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

I think there's a C in there too, one step below the D. Depends on the rendition. Ours18 03:24, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

That's possible in certain readings of the theme, but no tritone. Nationalparks 21:08, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reconstruction

I shall continue to update this page every so often. This page shall be as good as or better than the Star Wars music page. ;) I will try to make it informative and interesting. :) Serapthis 03:10, 24 December 2006 (UTC) contribs) 03:08, 24 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Themes

I completely disagree with the new look of the page. This page must not be a repliqua of the notes by Doug Adams. I find it nonsense to just write down every theme. We should just write a few themes by movie (like for Star Wars music and describe them. This page must not be a list. Trimmo 23:50, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

The "Star Wars Music" page lists all of the themes with a description for them, and it lists the "unofficial" themes - all 30 or so of them. This isn't much different. Yeah, it's a lot, but so what? Why not make it like the CR liner notes? This is for people that don't have the CR/CR liner notes. I plan on adding some material that is factual but in my own words, not Doug's. But, that will be a while.

[edit] Score

Does anybody know where to get the score (not an arranged version, with the original orchestration)?

[edit] Nice article - suggest some merging

This is a nice article. Are those editing this article aware of Category:The Lord of the Rings film music? Some of the entries there could be merged into this article. Especially Aníron, Concerning Hobbits, Gollum's Song, Into the West (song) and May It Be. There is also The Lord of the Rings (symphony) - would anyone here be interested in expanding that article? Carcharoth 01:34, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Though maybe those articles are best left separate from this. I'm not sure how music songs are handled in general. Carcharoth 01:36, 30 January 2007 (UTC)