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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      General Discussion: Fanfares     1 2    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Jun 20, 2016 - 11:05 PM     By:   Great Escape   (Member) I suspect that aside from the 20th Century Fox fanfare, that perhaps the two best known fanfares by the general public are Alexander Courage's Star Trek and John Williams's Star Wars. Any thoughts on other fanfares that might be as widely known outside of our isolated fandom in contemporary times? Maybe Williams's Olympics fanfare? That's all that seems to come to mind of that caliber.    Posted:   Jun 20, 2016 - 11:26 PM     By:   Justin Boggan   (Member) Well, even popular fanfares are a niche; there's always somebody who has no idea what you are listenhing to. Other widely popular fanfares: The Indiana Jones fanfare. Parts of themes from Star Wars. The James Bond theme.    Posted:   Jun 20, 2016 - 11:37 PM     By:   Jim Cleveland   (Member) You can NOT beat that "Grand Canyon Fanfare"........YOWZERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    Posted:   Jun 21, 2016 - 12:47 AM     By:   Great Escape   (Member) Well, even popular fanfares are a niche; there's always somebody who has no idea what you are listenhing to. Other widely popular fanfares: The Indiana Jones fanfare. Parts of themes from Star Wars. The James Bond theme. Are these actually fanfares though?    Posted:   Jun 21, 2016 - 12:47 AM     By:   Great Escape   (Member) Duplicate    Posted:   Jun 21, 2016 - 1:31 AM     By:   Amer Zahid   (Member) Great topic here. For John Williams besides the standard main leitmotif's that he added in the glossary of themes and body of work he wrote and integrated many 2nd tier Fanfares within both STAR WARS and INDIANA JONES series. From the Original Trilogy: 1) There is at least very prominent fanfare from RETURN OF THE JEDI used in the destruction of Jabba's Sail Barge Assault. 2) Similar fanfare reprised also for the destruction of Death Star II. 3) Also favourite of mine is the one used for transition cue for the Rebel Alliance Armada after Luke and Obi Wan Kenobi's meeting on Dagobah. 4) The unused Fanfare from 'The Emperor Arrives' is also a nice snippet. In EMPIRE: 1) Han Solo and Company arrive on Bespin's 'City in the Clouds' sequence on board the Millennium Falcon. Williams introduces a short triplet fanfare heralding their arrival. 2)Williams also deployed fanfare using the existing themes like Vader's Imperial motif, Yoda's Theme used during Luke's duel sequences with Vader, 3) Prequels: There is superb fanfare used during the Arrival on Courasant in Episode i & another sequence where Anakin & Padame arriving on Tatooine. INDIANA JONES/TEMPLE OF DOOM: I love the small fanfare used when Indy, Willie and Short round escape from the Water flooding in the mines. And also during the end of the battle sequence on the bridge. Also a big favourite is the Arrival of Maharaja: Zalim Singh! There are many more sub-fanfares buried in the scores which I cant just recall at the moment. Somebody asked Williams during a TV interview once:"How Many Fanfares Can you write? " And Williams Laughed and simply said "I really dont know!"    Posted:   Jun 21, 2016 - 3:02 AM     By:   Timmer   (Member) Bill Conti's ROCKY of course.    Posted:   Jun 21, 2016 - 6:51 AM     By:   Kim Peterson   (Member) ARTHUR'S FANFARE - FIRST KNIGHT    Posted:   Jun 21, 2016 - 8:57 AM     By:   Jon C   (Member) I've always enjoyed the Superman Fanfare, especially when played right before the march.    Posted:   Jun 21, 2016 - 9:11 AM     By:   Great Escape   (Member) I stand corrected. I realized that the first three bars of the James Bond Theme would indeed be a highly recognizable fanfare. The Rocky one ranks up there. Good call on that. The opening of the Flintstones cartoon theme is pretty much an instantly known one.    Posted:   Jun 21, 2016 - 9:28 AM     By:   Matt S.   (Member) Bugler's Dream by Leo Arnaud, would be my guess as one of the most widely known fanfares to the general public, due to its constant use in TV broadcasts of the Olympics.    Posted:   Jun 21, 2016 - 10:18 AM     By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member) I think Aaron Copland rules the roost with his Fanfare for the Common Man (later adapted for a chart-topping hit by Emerson Lake and Palmer).    Posted:   Jun 21, 2016 - 10:18 AM     By:   Great Escape   (Member) I'm not quite sure how Superman and Raiders constitute fanfares rather than merely A Themes in their respective marches. And I have First Knight on CD but wouldn't recognize it if I tripped over it and the movie made about a dollar and a half at the box office, so I'm not sure how this would be known to the general public.    Posted:   Jun 21, 2016 - 10:40 AM     By:   Tall Guy   (Member) I think many people would recognise the fanfare at the start of The Great Escape. There's a fine line between a fanfare and a simple introduction, but this one (and 633 Squadron would count as well, in my book) surely qualify, involving brass and a rising - and rousing - melody. The James Bond Theme is an interesting suggestion. Can there be minor key fanfares? One of Shostakovich's film scores, King Lear, includes more fanfares than Mravinsky could shake a stick at. (It also has a bizarre use of the "Jingle Bells" melody.) I wouldn't say it sits particularly high in the public consciousness, though.    Posted:   Jun 21, 2016 - 10:58 AM     By:   Timmer   (Member) A wonderful fanfare version of A View To A Kill when Bond rescues whatshername from a burning building not included on the original soundtrack but rerecorded by Nick Raine.    Posted:   Jun 21, 2016 - 12:14 PM     By:   Great Escape   (Member) I think many people would recognise the fanfare at the start of The Great Escape. There's a fine line between a fanfare and a simple introduction, but this one (and 633 Squadron would count as well, in my book) surely qualify, involving brass and a rising - and rousing - melody. The James Bond Theme is an interesting suggestion. Can there be minor key fanfares? One of Shostakovich's film scores, King Lear, includes more fanfares than Mravinsky could shake a stick at. (It also has a bizarre use of the "Jingle Bells" melody.) I wouldn't say it sits particularly high in the public consciousness, though. Great Escape is my favorite score of all time but I don't think the opening fanfare is that known to the public as much as the subsequent A Theme. And even then they would on average not know where they know it from. Don't even think 633 registers.    Posted:   Jun 29, 2016 - 1:42 PM     By:   Tall Guy   (Member) Denton and Cook's great theme for the Quiller tv series in the mid-70s started with a fanfare. Just remembered that one.    Posted:   Jun 29, 2016 - 2:45 PM     By:   Frank DeWald   (Member) I know it's technically not a fanfare, but surely the opening of Also Sprach Zarathustra (aka 2001) is one of the most familiar "pseudo-fanfares" in the world!    Posted:   Jun 29, 2016 - 9:16 PM     By:   connorb93   (Member) Goldsmith's LIONHEART contains a fanfare for King Richard I feel like a lot of Jerry's action themes, especially in his later years, can be counted as fanfares    Posted:   Jun 30, 2016 - 12:01 AM     By:   simon377   (Member) Goldsmith's Universal Logo theme counts as a well known fanfare. It's had nearly 20 years on many of our DVDs.     General Discussion: Fanfares    < 1 2  > >>  Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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