4 years later, I'd like to see these analyses as a book (perhaps in digital form, so I could read it on tablet). It would be great, as you could expand a little on linking between different motifs. Anyway, thanks for this one!
1:43 how do you possible hear the saxes in here? is there some clearer audio where the soli is heard? or the actual conductor score has been published?
I've recently sightread Wagner/Liszt - Tannhauser Ouverture, so I believe a decent piano transcription of this masterpiece by Williams is indeed possible! :) I know Jarrod Radnich made a good attempt at it, but it is possible to "squeeze" more from it.
The thing that people are missing is that the soundtrack would usually inform the audience exactly how to feel about a scene, but with a film like Jurassic Park, one that we've already watched many times, and its naturally epic nature, the lack of music creates a very intimate and natural feeling instead.
Why hasn't any mentioned West Side Story yet as an influence? The atonal bass line, the sax riffs, motivic clocks... It all fits! (plus JW was playing piano in the orchestra that recorded the film version at that time)
For anyone interested, the chord at b13 01:04 is an octatonic subset (0134 or D,Eb,F,Gb in this case) which is used throughout the franchise (albeit in lots of different contexts and guises) and is referred to a great deal sometimes without the '1' and in the voicing 0,8,11 or C,Ab,B...
Fascinating. The realism increases but the magic and wonder drastically decreases. The "greatness" is lost. When there is a perfect merger of both visuals and music. I'm sure you'd come away from the film discussing the content fine. But with Williams' music you come away discussing the EXPERIENCE.
John Williams use of the woodwinds is incredible. Today, in 2024, Woodwinds seem to be utilized far less. The Woodwinds should not be forgotten, they have so much character!
Those analysis aren´t correct. You are analysing it from tonality viewpoint. Its not that F major is tonic, Tonic is Db major with bitonal C major. And the Bbm part is the vi of that key. The cadences in the end of each phrase are there just to escape cadences like IV>V>I motion. Thats what creates this piece.