The Last Crusade: "Indy's Very First Adventure” by John Williams (Score Reduction and Analysis) 

Those opening chords and orchestrations really echo back to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

OMG!! This is one of my all time favorite scores!! I have analysed It before, you can learn so much from this channel

You should do "Anakin Crawling" for the next one! It's honestly one of John Williams's most insane songs. Not in terms of speed and intensity, but in the theory, how he pieces the song together, and making atonality sound so amazing. Fun piece to listen to. Very eerie.

This was awesome. One of my favorite Williams cues. Such a fun piece. Excellent work as always.

What perfect timing! I absolutely love this track and have been thinking about it the past the past week

Wow! This particular John Williams cue was new to me and your analysis really speaks to how I understand & parse music -- especially when writing out my own works. (Studied theory in high school & college, but have been on autodidactic autopilot ever since, lol.) I really appreciate the economy if you will of Bernard Herrmann's work, but your detailed analyses make the relatively more-complicated Williams' cues so much easier to tackle! Subscribed! :)

This is awesome! Great work David!

This and many other Williams writings and compositions is enough to build synapsis into any brain. 2nd favorite theme. 2nd to only Miriam’s love theme.

I listen to this song no joke at just once a week😂 glad to finally see it on the account!! Hope to see more Indy soon, love your work man!:)❤️

Thanks for the work you've done

6:27 chase theme #2 originated in the end titles Williams wrote for The Accidental Tourist, just before this!

Love these analysis videos, very inspiring and informative. Keep em coming :)

Scherzo for Motorcycle and orchestra please 😁

I think Herbert Spencer was beginning to get ill around this time. John Neufeld also started putting his clarinet down to take on more and more cues. Courage used to be called in when they really fell behind.

I'll be coming back to his cue. Love the cartoonish harmonies mixed with the Americana feel

Great job!

I don't know jack about music sheet reading, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't enjoying myself

Great analysis - belongs in a museum!

5:08 Feel free to join in! Damn it Meg!

I love this franchise

Wow! That was great!

You're an angel!

3:12-3:29 Crazily beautiful.

Those trills at 238 are missing the picc on top, trilling Bb to C. Spelled top to bottom (and ignoring the flutes 8va), that chord they're trilling on is the first four notes of the chase theme. :D

7:43 "pines of rome" moment

5:09 All Peter Griffin

I hear some passing tones in the melody at 7:12

6:58.

5:28 section reminiscent of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gm4J-yKC0JE.html, as well as 'The Fight' ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ORjjFcOJkLs.html

5:30 There's no way that can be D major. I would even say that it is G major (not lydian), and the C# notes there are just either chromatic passing notes or part of A7 which works as a secondary dominant V7/V. A7-D is not a perfect cadence, it is a half cadence that finishes the first half of the theme.

The text in the notations is all blurry. Literally can't even read most of the words.