Episode 30: The Little Mermaid

Art of the Score

Nicholas Buc

Education, Tv & Film, Music

5 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2019

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

It’s Episode 30, and we at Art of the Score are finally tackling two genres we’ve so far overlooked – animation and the musical, combined in the form of the great Disney revival musical, The Little Mermaid. Join us as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of this wonderful film and explore the cabaret roots of Ursula, the perfect pop song for Ariel, and the debatable reggae of Under The Sea in Alan Menken’s joyous and groundbreaking score. Episode notes: 4:10 – The Art of the Mailbag? 5:12 – The Disney Dark Ages 8:15 – Alan Menken: the secret to Disney’s revival 12:52 – Ariel’s theme: Part of Your World 15:33 – “I want” 19:26 – Ariel’s verse 25:01 – Ariel’s verse (Hoarders edition) 28:41 – Creative voicing 32:47 – A pre-chorus? 35:33 – Recorders on the beach 38:44 – Ariel’s musical maturity 42:17 – Ursula’s theme: Poor Unfortunate Souls 45:03 – Craberet 50:40 – Fortunate Souls 54:35 – Poggo’s Unfortunate Lyrics 56:44 – Scheming eels 1:00:49 – Prince Eric’s Roadshow 1:06:02 – Eric’s Organ Announcement 1:09:48 – Triton’s Fanfare 1:13:04 – Triton’s Minor Fanfare 1:15:53 – Scuttle’s scuttlebutt 1:24:11 – Mickey Mouse-ing 1:34:26 – Le Chef, and Nick’s waltzing tangent 1:42:04 – Andrew’s Chef genocide tangent 1:44:51 – Under the C 1:49:45 – Dan’s reggae tangent 1:59:37 – Fathoms Below and the opening song We love to hear from our listeners – get in touch via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, 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	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,
0:21.3	TV and video games.
0:23.0	I'm Andrew Poxson.
0:24.2	And in each episode, we'll be joined by Daniel Golding and Nicholas Buck,
0:27.6	as we check out a soundtrack we love, break down its main themes,
0:31.3	explore what makes the score tick,
0:33.3	and hopefully impart our love of the world of soundtrans.
0:49.9	Thank you. and hopefully impart our love of the world of sound trends. In episode 30, we dive under the sea and return to 1989's The Little Mermaid, written and
0:58.1	directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, with music by the amazing Alan Menkin and lyrics by
1:03.9	Howard Ashman. In 2019, we celebrate this Disney classic's 30th anniversary. It's also episode 30.
1:11.8	That's a nice little hookup.
1:18.4	So what better time to crack open the clam that is this film and remove the pearl that is this music and go fishing for more clams? I don't know how the sea works, but their references
1:25.9	anyway, folks. Joining me in our little rowboat, surrounded by peer-pressuring amphibians,
1:32.0	is composer, arranger, orchestrator, conductor, and a keen collector.
1:35.6	Some would say hoarder of Hoositz and Whatzits Galore.
1:39.3	It's Nicholas Buck. How you doing, Nick?
1:41.3	I'm going really well, guys.
1:42.5	I'm very excited, actually, to do our first Disney film.
1:46.5	Well, I guess you could count the Force Awakens as maybe a Disney film.
1:50.1	But I guess a Disney musical, which is something we really haven't looked at at all in this podcast.
1:55.0	And it's a really great opportunity.
1:56.9	Now that Macon is a wonderful composer and really spearheaded this, I guess, new era of Disney, which we can talk about.
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