Episode 3: Jurassic Park

Art of the Score

Nicholas Buc

Education, Tv & Film, Music

5 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2017

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

For our third episode, we look at another great Williams-Spielberg collaboration with the 1993 score to Jurassic Park. This landmark film redefined special effects and Hollywood itself, but what did it do for film music? Join us as we take a look at the main themes for the score and the hidden gems – and go from gospel, to jazz, to hymns along the way. Episode Notes: - 2:30 Notes on Jurassic Park as a Spielberg film and its place in film history - 7:10 Theme From Jurassic Park - 10:00 The main theme as a hymn - 15:00 The structure of the main theme - 17:20 The end credits version of the theme - 21:00 The ‘Journey to the Island’ theme - 23:30 Comparison with ‘Summon the Heroes’ - 26:00 The ‘sheen’ to the thematic orchestration - 29:56 The ‘panic’ theme - 31:45 Comparison with Dies Irae - 41:10 Comparison with later John Williams ‘suspense’ music - 43:45 Petticoat Lane - 47:00 Comparison with other John Williams celeste writing - 49:00 Triceratops music - 53:32 Dennis’s music and comparison with JFK - 55:40 Williams’ jazz influences - 57:15 The development of the action music - 1:00:25 The raptor motif - 1:01:00 The animation jazz and comparison with Gershwin - 1:03:30 Williams’ use of synth - 1:08:50 ‘Incident at Isla Nublar’ - 1:12:00 Comparison with 1990s synth action music 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 as we check out a soundtrack we love, break down its main themes, explore what makes the score tick,
0:49.2	and hopefully impart our love of the world of soundtracks.
0:59.6	Music impart our love of the world of soundtracks. In episode three, we explore another classic Spielberg and Williams collaboration
1:03.7	with the score from the 1993 film Jurassic Park.
1:07.6	We begin our journey back in time with a look at the key themes from the score,
1:11.8	along with some of the new techniques that Williams was employing at that moment in his
1:15.3	career. We'll also take a closer look at some of the lesser known cues, dissect some of the
1:19.6	possible influence on this score, and analyze Jeff Goldblum's amazing chest hair. And joining me,
1:25.9	as always, is composer, arranger, orchestrator, conductor and the
1:29.9	principal pianist of art of the score. It's Nicholas Buck. How you doing? I'm great, guys. I'm feeling
1:35.2	a little naked because I just don't have as much chest hair as Jeff Goldblum. But I mean like,
1:41.6	that's that's my problem, really.
1:52.3	And our third partner in this prehistoric expedition is writer, critic, composer and university lecturer. It's Dan Goldine. Welcome, Dan. How you doing? I'm doing good. I'm keen to discover
1:57.1	how life finds a way today. Oh, I'm loving, we're right in there with the quotes right off the bat.
2:03.2	I love it.
2:03.9	I love it.
2:04.7	So we're, you know, checking out Jurassic Park in this third episode of Art of the Score,
2:10.8	something that we're really looking forward to.
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