Episode 1: Raiders of the Lost Ark - Part 1

Art of the Score

Nicholas Buc

Education, Tv & Film, Music

5 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In Art of the Score, we dissect the greats of film music from top to bottom. For our first two episodes, we’re starting with John Williams’ 1981 score for Raiders of the Lost Ark, one of the most iconic collaborations between Williams and Spielberg. In episode one, we take a look at the themes of Raiders in detail – how they work, why they’re perfect for their characters, and the blueprint that they set up for the film. Episode Notes: - 3:05 Where Raiders of the Lost Ark sits in film history, why it was made, and how - 8:00 The visual look of Raiders - 10:00 John Williams’ musical style in context - 13:52 An introduction to leitmotif - 16:42 The Raiders March (Indiana’s Theme) - 27:40 Marion’s Theme (and what is Raiders about, anyway?) - 37:10 John Williams and the major sixth in romantic contexts - 45:20 The Ark Theme - 50:30 Comparison with the Grail Theme from The Last Crusade - 55:30 The Nazi theme and comparison with Imperial Music from Star Wars - 59:35 Comparison with the Nazi theme from The Last Crusade Join us for Episode Two as we go even deeper into the score, uncovering the hidden moments and orchestrational genius that makes Raiders a film score for the ages. We’d love to hear from our listeners – get in touch via Twitter, and if you like The Art of the Score, please take a moment to subscribe, rate and comment.

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0:00.0	This episode of Art of the Score is proudly supported by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
0:05.3	Head over to www.m.m.com.com.org for more information on their upcoming season of live
0:13.4	movie score presentations.
0:38.4	Music Welcome to Art of the Score, the podcast that explores, demystifies and celebrates some of the greatest soundtracks of all time from the world of film, TV and video games.
0:43.2	I'm Andrew Pogson. And in each episode, we'll be joined by Daniel Golding and Nicholas Buck,
0:48.9	as we check out a soundtrack we love, break down its main themes, explore what makes the score tick,
0:52.6	and hopefully impart our love of the world of soundtracks.
1:03.2	In our first episode, we explore one of the greatest film scores of all time,
1:08.7	John Williams' classic 1981 score to Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.
1:12.9	In part one, we'll be checking out all of the main themes from Raiders.
1:15.4	We'll discuss John Williams' compositional style and look at some of the other cues from the other movies
1:18.0	that potentially influence Raiders, or perhaps, were influenced by Williams himself.
1:23.3	And joining me, as always, on our debut episode, is writer, lecturer,
1:28.7	and totally legit video games composer.
1:31.9	Dan Goldine. How you doing, Dan?
1:33.7	Great to be here. It's fantastic.
1:35.5	I know. I feel like I needed to get the video game thing out there straight away
1:41.0	because you're a very humble man,
1:42.9	and you don't go around advertising
1:44.9	the fact that you are um a a published video game composer yes it's it's it's an interest
1:52.8	it's something that i really enjoy doing and hope to do more of in the future it's uh not my bread
1:56.9	and butter but it's it's a nice hobby and let let's get the plug in there. What's the game? It's called Push Me Pull You.
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