In watching the movie LotR, I couldn’t help but notice the tune played at the beginning and end of the picture. I only noticed the “A” part of the tune. Is there a “B” part?
I’m interested in picking up the music from LOTR, too, but I wonder which tune you mean… Is it the softer one that accompanies Kate Blanchett’s narrative? What is the A part? I’m just guessing, but, do you mewan that you need more music to play because it’ll sound silly if you play that one theme again and again with no variation? I was noticing that. I’m going to try to get some of the Hobbit party music figured out.
The tune (or part of it) was played as you saw Gandalf and Frodo riding on the cart in the Shire and I think, as you saw Frodo and Sam standing on the ridge at the end of the movie.
You could just play that part (over and over), but most tunes have 2 parts. I only heard the first part in the movie. It would be a shame if the composer only wrote half of a tune.
I believe that part is called “Concerning Hobbits”. It’s a great tune and sets the tone for the Frodo and the hobbits throughout the film.
Kim
Concerning hobbits is on the soundtrack.
I noticed that there’s two versions of it, though overall its the same tune.
There’s a slightly jumpier part in the movie, compared to the soundtrack. Then again, variation is good.
Yeah, “Concerning Hobbits”, I think. I don´t really understand why it´s supppose to have two parts. The “tune” you talk of is more like a phrase which appears with variations along the soundtrack, in the classical way of an orchestraded soundtrack.
In any case, I think we could talk of two different “parts” (or two “tunes”), the one played with whistle and the following played with fiddle.
A great tune, anyway for an extraordinary film.
Cheers,
Manuel Waldesco
I just got the DVD and thus actually sat through the credits (not something I can do in a theater with a bouncy nine-year-old). Turns out that beautiful tune is the instrumental intro for the Enya piece that’s sung in full while the credits roll…I think it’s called “May it Be.” Unfortunately, there doesn’t appear to be a B part, unless you consider the part that’s sung to be the B part (though it doesn’t go as well with the instrumental music as I would like). Unless Enya borrowed that riff from another, longer piece, I think the fragment we hear in the movie is all there is.
Redwolf
May have to just improvise.
I haven’t heard the music since I saw the movie at the theaters..but I can make a guess about the ‘two parts’ thing.
Many types of traidtional irish tunes (jigs, reels, etc) share a fairly standard structure: Each part having two 4-measure phrases, which is repeated. While some tunes may have as much as five parts, most only have two.
The tune in question may be an orchestral theme or phrase which sounds fine in that context but which may sound like only 1 ‘part’ of a tune to ears listening for standard irish music structure.
On 2002-08-22 12:29, Hwistle wrote:
Yeah, “Concerning Hobbits”, I think. I don´t really understand why it´s supppose to have two parts. The “tune” you talk of is more like a phrase which appears with variations along the soundtrack, in the classical way of an orchestraded soundtrack.In any case, I think we could talk of two different “parts” (or two “tunes”), the one played with whistle and the following played with fiddle.
A great tune, anyway for an extraordinary film.
Cheers,
Manuel Waldesco