The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
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Composer: Howard Shore
Performer: Mask
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Import, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2006-04-25
Music Label: X5
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Prophecy
  2. Concerning Hobbits
  3. Shadow of the Past
  4. Treason of Isengard
  5. Black Rider
  6. At the Sign of the Prancing Pony
  7. Knife in the Dark
  8. Many Meetings
  9. Ring Goes South
  10. Bridge of Khazad Dum
  11. Breaking of the Fellowship
  12. Lothlorien
  13. Flight to the Ford
Music CD 2
  1. Foundations of Stone
  2. Samwise the Brave
  3. Evenstar
  4. Black Gate Is Closed
  5. Leave Taking
  6. Taming of Smeagol
  7. King of the Golden Hall
  8. Passage of the Marshes
  9. Riders of Rohan
  10. Treebeard
  11. Hornburg
  12. Uruk-Hai
  13. Forbidden Pool
Music CD 3
  1. Into the West
  2. Storm Is Coming
  3. Hope and Memory
  4. Minas Tirith
  5. White Tree
  6. Steward of Gondor
  7. Minas Morgul
  8. Ride of the Rohirrin
  9. Cirith Ungol
  10. Grey Havens
  11. Return of the King
  12. Into the West

Music reviews of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Music Review: Curious presentation but not a live orchestra
Rating: 3 Stars

I came across this recording on Amazon while searching for the real thing. I see many who think this CD is the worst thing since homework. I agree more ought to be done to make clear this is NOT a recording of an orchestra. In fact, I don't see details of performance anywhere in the Amazon advertisement. Only after reading several reviews did it become clear this is music performed by a synthesizer. I have heard worse, barely.

Now I'm curious and I might just well purchase this weird CD for my collection.

Many musicians use every day now computer programs such as "Finale 2010 Academic" and "Sibelius 6 Professional" to prepare music for performance by real people. Both are available through Amazon. These programs include sophisticated music synthesizers which can produce performances much better than the samples I heard from the CD above.

Synthesizers have played an important role in the development of music since mid-twentieth century. Early electronic composers, as they were rightly called back in the 1950's, used any means available to produce the timbres they wanted. Some used electronic means to modify existing sounds - "Musique concrete." A FEW composers from this period include: Edgard Var?se, Iannis Xenakis, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Vladimir Ussachevsky.

Others used devices which generated sound electronically. The "Theremin," "Ondes Martenot," and the "Moog Synthesizer" come to mind. Olivier Messiaen used the "Theremin" and the "Ondes Martenot " in several works - my favorite is the "Trois Petites Liturgies de la Pr?sence Divine", available on Amazon. One well known composer, Walter Carlos (now known as Wendy Carlos) used the" Moog Synthesizer" to create the "Switched-On Bach", "The Well-Tempered Synthesizer" and several others also available through Amazon. Musicians in New York City used the innovative equipment at the "Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center" into the 1970's, notably by the prolific American Composer Charles Wuorinenin his Pulitzer Prize winning "Time's Encomium."

Music for the popular TV series "DOCTOR WHO" originated in the "BBC Radiophonic Workshop."

This is a tiny retrospective on the very early days of electronic music. What we take for granted now was very difficult to achieve given the equipment available from ca 1940 to the invention of the Moog Synthesizer. We now use MIDI devices and don't think about the creativity that led to a synthesizer in many PC's and countless other places in 21st century life.

Description of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Three disc set featuring music from The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy including 'Fellowship Of The Ring', 'Two Towers', & 'Return Of The King', all performed by Mask. 38 tracks packaged in a three-panel digipak. World Of Music. 2004.

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