Who else will miss Greg Edmonson's music on the BDM?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Saturday, October 15, 2005 06:04
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Greg was part of what made the show so special. I know the composer for Serenity will do an outstanding job in his own right, but those beautiful world music-inspired melodies Greg gave us for the series will be in my thoughts as I watch the movie...
You can SEE the music Chrisisall
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From what little I've heard from the soundtrack, It's blown me away already, so I'm not too worried.
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I most definitely will. In fact, there's a whole feel, that Greg's music captured so well - a sort of ambling folksiness, that I missed in the movie. It's been explained away as part of a set of necessary changes in the transition to the big screen. But I know what I like, and I miss it.
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I'm going to miss it. The soundtrack music you can find on the web is similar to Greg's music, like a mocha latte' is similar to a mocha cappuchino (mmmm, mocha!) but they are not the same. From what I've heard, the movie has a full blown score, and Greg's was more incidental music. Different purposes, I guess.
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Yes, me! The music from the movie is great, and I'll likely buy the soundtrack, but Greg's music was like a character almost... :(
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I, too, will be missing Greg's music greatly...anyone hear if the CD from the series ever came to fruition? I know it was 'in the works' but never saw any post about it
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One of the essays in "Finding Serenity" talked about how Greg Edmonson assigned different sounds or instruments to different people or things. There's always piano around River and Simon. There are wild drum cadences whenever Reavers are mentioned. The Alliance is represented with horns.
I've only heard the promo CD for the movie, but I get this same feeling. For example, there's that same kind of fiddle sound to the "Serenity" track that you hear in the show whenever you see the ship. It even sounds a bit like The Ballad of Serenity at one point. Just bigger and more grandiose for the big screen.
I greatly admire both Edmonson's and Newman's talents, and I can't wait for the soundtrack to come out so I can buy it. I also wish they'd put out the Firefly soundtrack!
Serenity, First Officer of Destiny
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Quote:He talks about that in this interview too.
Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
One of the essays in "Finding Serenity" talked about how Greg Edmonson assigned different sounds or instruments to different people or things. There's always piano around River and Simon. There are wild drum cadences whenever Reavers are mentioned. The Alliance is represented with horns.
http://www.tracksounds.com/specialfeatures/Interviews/interview_greg_e
dmonson.htm
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I'm with sarge, one of the things that made our show so special was greg's excellent use of music.
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The new composer was obviously copying the style of firefly to some extent to give it a similar feel. I think the Serenity theme is wonderful and Serenity's intruduction on the big screen with the theme and the roar of the engines is awesome. However, the rest of the music just does a good job of supporting what is happenning. There are none of those moments where the music is heart-breakingly beautiful like in firefly.
Here's a few snippets from firefly that I put together: http://rj200.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/FireflyMusicMix.mp3
Please Universal - Greg Edmonson for the sequel!
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