Hans Zimmer and Interstellar Patrick Kennedy Music 1010

Hans Zimmer and Interstellar Patrick Kennedy Music 1010 Spring 18 Instructor: Sebel

Biography of Hans Zimmer • Born in West Germany in 1957 • Appeared in the very first MTV music video (Video Killed the Radio Star) • Big break was Rain Main • Golden Globes, Grammy Awards, Academy Awards, you name it he’s won it. • Hans wrote more movie scores than I had ANY idea about.

Discography For Hans Zimmer Here’s a selected list of his discography: Rain Man Driving Miss Daisy Thelma and Louise A League of Their Own Lion King Prince of Egypt Gladiator Last Samurai Mission Impossible 2 Da Vince Code (and sequels) The Dark Knight Trilogy Chappie The Simpsons Movie

OK, so, how did they make the music for Interstellar? ! • Pipe Organ for most of the music • Accompanied by traditional symphony instruments • Recorded at Lyndhurst Hall and Temple Church • Fun fact about Temple Church– Built as the Knights Templar headquarters in England.

Composition History and Such • All written for Interstellar • Album released 11/17/2014 • Produced by: Hans Zimmer, Christopher Nolan and Alex Gibson

Listening Guide Song 1: Cornfield Chase

Timing Form 0: 00 Descriptions: Rhythm, Melody, Harmony, Dynamics, Timbre, Texture C major started by strings 0: 05 ‘Tick Tock Theme” This theme sneaks in through the entire soundtrack and establishes an early rhythm that sets the song up. 0: 33 Piano? Theme (b) This feels scattered and sets up a polyphonic texture later : 45 Variation of tick tock Just before organ really takes off in a fugue-ish run 1: 00 Organ fugue over strings The harmony in this portion as the strings play under the organ is really something. Between 1: 00 -2: 00 there’s a repeat of “piano theme” The timbre of this section builds a feeling of excitement as the Coopers chase down the drone. 2: 04 The dynamics peak around this point with ascending contour

Listening Guide Song 2: Stay

0: 00 Choir blowing wind Stay Sounds as though there’s gusts of wind blowing 0: 20 Theme Organ and strings begin theme 1: 00 The dynamics up to this point have been SO SOFT 1: 37 Surprise gong hit signals some new action 1: 59 Theme A The dynamics are STILL SO SOFT 2: 17 Mode Change There’s a mode change here towards a minor mode 2: 41 Dynamics change as the organ comes in strong 3: 00 Organ is back softly 3: 514: 00 The music shifts…giving an anxious feel 4: 50 You get the feeling that something big is coming 5: 15 By now you KNOW something is coming 5: 36 The dynamics explode in a massive crescendo

Listening Guide 3: Where We’re Going

Where We’re Going 0: 00 0: 20 Winds blowing Theme A 0: 48 Dynamics are very soft 1: 15 Cymbals are crashing while winds are blowing 1: 28 Gong smash and the wind dies down 2: 15 The winds… they sneak back 3: 20 Tick tock 3: 36 3: 52 The organ comes in loud again! Theme A 4: 20 4: 40 So the tick tock theme is back, it’s the main bit of this chunk of the song. Theme A comes back on the organ The organ seems to have taken over this song from the other instruments Tick tock This part has the same repeating two notes in different parts of scale, with some variations of the main theme tossed in. 5: 33 More instruments added to round out the sound 6: 00 A variation on theme, and the sense that something is building 6: 36 Just like before, you know a big finale is coming 7: 04 Here it is, horns, strings, organ, all of it together in a monster crescendo at the near end of the film. 7: 33 Abrupt stop.

• Common Elements That Build Songs • Subtle Differences That Create Tension or Harmony • Heavy Use of Organ Music • It’s a Movie About Space and the Music Fits Right in So What is it That I Like?

Everybody’s Favorite Slide- Citations • 1. Hans Zimmer. IMDb, IMDb. com, www. imdb. com/name/nm 0001877/. Basic Bio Info • 2. Hans Zimmer Home Page, www. hans-zimmer. com. Discography, Bio, Photo • 3. Hans Zimmer Discography. Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 18 Mar. 2018, en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Hans_Zimmer_discography. Complete Discography • 4. Menu Page- My instagram @pkennedy 13 • 5. “Cornfield Chase Photo. ” Google Image Result for Https: //I. ytimg. com/Vi/bmz 9 l. MP 6 a. QU/Maxresdefault. jpg, goo. gl/images/fzb 7 v 9. Cornfield Photo • 6. “Gargantua. ” Google Image Result for Https: //I. ytimg. com/Vi/S 5 Uc. ISWWe. PU/Maxresdefault. jpg, goo. gl/images/ANU 4 p. A. Photo background • 7. “Hans Making Soundtrack. ” Google Image Result for Https: //I. ytimg. com/Vi/L_8 t 2 Vlw. K 4 w/Maxresdefault. jpg, goo. gl/images/HGFguw. Working on Interstellar • 8. Nolan, Christopher, director. Interstellar. Paramount, 2014. Special Feature on Music of Interstellar