"The Forest/Keyes" - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Score Reduction & Analysis) 

To me E.T. remains the pinnacle of Williams work. It is his opus magnum. A work of such sublime perfection that he never reached again. It totally makes the movie. Even more than his Star Wars scores.

4:29 chills

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These score reductions/analyses are fascinating and much appreciated! Keep 'em coming.

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I still hold that E.T. is Williams's magnum opus.

I really apreciate your work.Thanks for doing it! Would it be posible to do some cues from Home Alone 1 & 2?

At 2:12, listen to the first two notes. Isn't this the EXACT interval for the start of E.T.'s theme?!

Wonderful, indeed. I can still remember my delight watching this scene for the first time on the big screen and loving the scoring of it. Some of this musical language Williams already forged in the 1960s for LOST IN SPACE and VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA but here it strikes me that there is a decided Russian influence, but it is hard to pinpoint, a kind of synthesis of melodic, harmonic, and textural elements deriving from Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, and maybe even some Gliere and Liadov. The general sensibility qua film music, though, is somewhere between Herrmann and Friedhofer IMHO.

Where do you get the scores from?

is there a fourth video?

So, does John Williams actually sit down and write out every musical note on a score like this? I don’t understand how anyone can do that! It’s people like John Williams, who do things that seem impossible, that I understand their wealth and fame. I don’t even know how he does what he does. I wonder if he wakes up in the morning and thinks, “You know that music that everyone on the planet knows from about three dozen films? I wrote that.” 😂