Episode 31: How To Train Your Dragon

Art of the Score

Nicholas Buc

Education, Tv & Film, Music

5 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

It’s Episode 31, and we’re swooping into the new year with one of the most widely loved family films – as well as the film score buff’s film score – in How To Train Your Dragon. John Powell’s soundtrack has been one of Art of the Score’s most-requested episodes over the years, so join us as we get under the hood of this contemporary classic and pick apart its many main melodies and old-fashioned sound. Episode notes: 5:56 – How To Train Your Dreamworks 8:41 – The John Powell Up 12:31 – Nick leaves his wife for John Powell 14:43 – The Friendship theme 16:38 – Toothless’s theme 19:56 – Bagging Bagpipes 25:27 – Hammering Dulcimer 32:43 – Tin whistle and bodhran 35:26 – Let’s b (theme) friends 39:42 – Powell-chords 45:16 – Toothless in three 49:10 – Toothless Face/Off 51:05 – The Band with a Dragon Tattoo 54:17 – The Berk theme 59:47 – A point of pronunciation 1:02:56 – Father and Son 1:09:08 – The cavalry arrives 1:12:33 – The Viking theme 1:18:31 – How To Write A Dragon Melody 1:24:21 – Dragon scales 1:26:39 – Astrid’s theme 1:35:56 – The Evolution of Powell’s style 1:38:38 – Battle theme 1:44:10 – Telling the Tail 1:49:53 – John Powell’s best score? 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.
0:51.3	Thank you. and hopefully impart our love of the world of Soundtrans. In episode we swoop into a new year with the 2010 DreamWorks hit, How to Train Your Dragon,
0:59.8	based on a book of the same name by Cressa the Cow, directed by Chris Sanders and Dean de Blas,
1:05.3	with music by the wonderful John Powell.
1:08.4	In 2020, the film celebrates its double digits birthday. So what better time to
1:14.0	reignite your furious analysis. That's ignite your furious. Get it? It's night fury. Hey,
1:23.5	just because I'm indoor, folks, doesn't mean I forgot how to have pun.
1:28.4	And joining me from his isolated hut overlooking,
1:32.0	the C is composer, arranger, orchestrator, conductor,
1:35.2	and although he can't claim any specific Viking ancestry,
1:39.7	he does claim to have a half-dragon aunt,
1:42.4	twice removed on his mother's side.
1:44.0	So I guess that
1:44.8	qualifies him to talk about this film it's Nicholas Buck how you doing Nick I'm
1:49.3	doing wonderful gents how'd you know about my dragon lady aunt she was in fact the first
1:56.0	dragon lady ever to to be in existence but we'll be exploring lots of different types of dragons on this episode,
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