James Newton-Howard is a good friend of other composers. I use subtle changes in the tonality for transitions. and do not hit everything with the music. You must resist overwriting in an animated movie. Newton-Howard says of writing for animated features, You have to be shameless about writing funny music.
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Newton-Howards movie scores have successfully encompassed every genre, but he is probably best known for the scores he has done for Disney animated features, because the music is such a noticeably important element in them.įor Treasure Planet a retelling of the classic novel in an outer space setting, he knew a symphonic score that would remind the audience of the swashbuckling movies of old would best link together the outer space setting with the classic story.Ī Disney animated feature is often five years in production, and the first step is to compose the main themes and demo them for a committee, after which the score and movie are developed together. ∿ear is always a companion and a necessity.
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He starts every day full of confidence and by the end of the day he feels discouraged because the expectations are so daunting. You work 60 or 70 hours a week to create six or seven minutes of music. I had written a lot of instrumental music, but until you become a film composer, you don't know what the word 'productive' means. His own studio is not the usual jumble of equipment in a snakepit of cables, but a beautiful setting in which to work. Back in the early days of the technology, he created for Yamaha the first demonstration pieces with their innovative keyboard. James Newton-Howard is a devotee of computer technology and uses it to compose, to create demos and to write his notation for the live musicians a pencil gives my hand a cramp. He is someone you would like to work with and who you would trust to do a really good job. James Newton-Howard is a very pleasant man with an aura relaxed competence. PHOTO: James Newton-Howard by D'Lynn Waldron,PhD ©2002Ī PERSONAL REFLECTION ON JAMES NEWTON-HOWARD JAMES NEWTON-HOWARD COMPOSER OF MUSIC FOR THE MOVIES: BIOGRAPHY, PHOTOS, FILMOGRAPHY AND DISCOGRAPHY by D'Lynn Waldron,PhD ©2006
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