We’ve been busy working with Avid to implement their new Cloud interface version 2. This brings a fresher interface to our scores and the ability to play and print from your iPhone or iPad. The controls have moved to the bottom of the screen which helps mobile users but we’ve asked for that to be configurable together with a few other tweaks.
Our database has now grown to 120,000 arrangements and we have been busy separating songs with the same titles into different songs, adding album titles where useful and albums as collections of songs.
And to end here, just in case you like a bit of classic 60s Jazz, here’s a couple of arrangements of Thelonious Monk’s Off Off Minor
In a few weeks, the latest film about King Arthur will be released and it promises to be a huge success. This version is written by Joby Harold and directed by Guy Ritchie. At Great Scores we love good films but we love their soundtracks more. There is little information available at the moment save that the music will be by Daniel Pemberton and released by WaterTower Music.
You may not be familiar with Daniel Pemberton. He is an Ivor Novello winning and multi-BAFTA nominated composer and has score many Emmy and BAFTA award winning dramas and documentaries such as Complicit, Peep Show, Upstairs Downstairs, Desperate Romantics, Space Dive, Occupation and Hiroshima. He works with a wide range of musical mediums – from electronic to orchestral. He moved into film with the supernatural thriller The Awakening (2011). More recently he worked with Guy Ritchie on The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015).
The title track audio has been released and can be heard here. It’s quite an earthy sound and we can expect a fair amount of that throughout the film.
An early soundtrack listing follows:
From Nothing Comes a King Sheet Music
King Arthur: The Legend Of The Sword
Growing Up Londinium
Jackseye’s Tale
Th Story Of Mordred
Vortigen And The Syrens
The Legend Of Excalibur
Seasoned Oak
The Vikings & The Barons
The Politics & The Life
Tower & Power
The Born King
Assassins Breathe
Run Londinium
Fireball
Journey To The Caves
The Wolf & The Hanged Men
Camelot In Flames
The Lady In The Lake
The Darklands
Revelation
King Arthur: Destiny Of The Sword
The Power Of Excalibur
Knights Of The Round Table
King Arthur: The Coronation
The Devil & The Huntsman
We will update our site as soon as we can source the sheet music.
We’re in Brazil for the carnival and researching the Bossa Nova bars of Rio de Janeiro as well as the samba street parties of Savlador. It is, without doubt, great fun.
Our first stop in Rio was La Girota de Ipanema bar which was disappointing on a Monday evening – no live music. Across the road was the cosy Vinicius bar named for the amazing Vinicius de Moraes. We were privileged to see Thais Motte sing so delicately and strong with her nice dance moves.
We’ve been pretty quiet whilst working on some sizeable projects. Sorry about that but we’re back with an important update – 90% of our scores can now be previewed, transposed and played using your browser. No more plug-ins! The Scorch plug-in was fantastic for many years, for which we are grateful, but as support was slowly dropped by browsers, for a lot of plug-in types, we had to find something different. So we have introduced the AVID sheet music player. You need to have a reasonably uptodate browser – Chrome v39+, Firefox v34+, Internet Explorer v10+ and they should all work on the Mac and Safari 8+ (requires OSX Yosemite) also works.
This also, of course, means you can view your entire scores once purchased and print them off. Note that this does not yet work from most mobile devices. Also this applies to new purchases only at this time.
In a world where albums contain more music than we may have dared to dream of many years ago, there still remains the ability for artists to write really short songs. The “ideal” length is around 3 minutes as that seems to fit nicely with airplay concerns for radio DJs. That hasn’t stopped there being monster length songs like Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody mind you which comes in just shy of 6 minutes.
The Chemical Brothers’ No Path to Follow which contains repetitive “lyrics” which become clearer in its 1 minute 4 second life is pretty short by any standards. There’s little merit to it either. That song wasn’t a hit by itself but it is the opening track on the We Are The Night album which entered the charts at Number 1.
Brevity is not a new tack taken for singles. The song All I Can Do from The Carpenters comes in at under 2 minutes. Maybe that, 2 minutes, should be the bar, a little musical pun there, by which we measure (ok, ok no more). I did say it was not uncommon and in fact It’s Not Unusual. Performed by Tom Jones for just 1 minute 58 seconds long it was a massive hit and remains very popular today. Short can be sweet!
Others include The White Stripes – Fell in Love With a Girl, The Beatles – I’m Happy Just To Dance With You and The Rolling Stones with Not Fade Away. Some great songs there proving we love quality and not quantity.
We’ve been posting to this blog for a few years now and are very aware that the way that people interact across the Internet is changing. They call it Social Media. So we are trying to reach out to you in many ways. However, rather than simply duplicate our messages across all the available platforms, we are trying to produce varying updates in every stream. Of course, sometimes we will want to share important news with all of our followers but mostly we try to avoid this.
As a guide, Blog postings are normally a little more in depth, Facebook slightly less so, Tweets are short burst of snappy, hopefully interesting and unusual, information and we have yet to find a style for Google Plus!
