Théoden Rides Forth - Music
Théoden Rides Forth by Howard Shore
Howard Shore
Artist Biography For Howard Shore
Howard Leslie Shore OC Born October 18 1946 Is A Canadian Composer Who Is Notable For His Film Scores. He Has Composed The Scores For Over 80 Films Most Notably The Scores For The Lord Of The Rings And The Hobbit Film Trilogies. He Won Three Academy Awards For His Work On The First Trilogy With One Being For The Original Song "Into The West" An Award He Shared With Eurythmics Lead Vocalist Annie Lennox And Writer/producer Fran Walsh Who Wrote The Lyrics. He Is Also A Consistent Collaborator With Director David Cronenberg Having Scored All But One Of His Films Since 1979. Shore Has Also Composed A Few Concert Works Including One Opera The Fly Based On The Plot Of Cronenberg's 1986 Film Premiered At The Théâtre Du Châtelet In Paris On July 2 2008 A Short Piece Fanfare For The Wanamaker Organ And The Philadelphia Orchestra And A Short Overture For The Swiss 21st Century Symphony Orchestra. In Addition To His Three Academy Awards Shore Has Also Won Three Golden Globe Awards And Four Grammy Awards. Howard Shore Was Born In Toronto Ontario Canada The Son Of Bernice Née Ash And Mac Shore. Shore Is Jewish. He Started Studying Music At The Age Of 8 Or 9. He Learned A Multitude Of Instruments And Began Playing In Bands At The Ages Of 13 And 14. When Shore Was 13 He Met And Became Good Friends With A Young Lorne Michaels In Summer Camp And This Friendship Would Later Be Influential In His Career. By 17 He Decided He Wanted To Pursue Music In His Adult Life Too. He Studied Music At Berklee College Of Music In Boston After Graduating From Forest Hill Collegiate Institute. From 1969 To 1972 Shore Was A Member Of The Jazz Fusion Band Lighthouse. In 1970 He Became The Music Director For Lorne Michaels And Hart Pomerantz's Short-Lived TV Program The Hart & Lorne Terrific Hour. Shore Wrote The Music For Canadian Magician Doug Henning's Magic Musical Spellbound In 1974 And From 1975 To 1980 He Was The Musical Director For Lorne Michaels' Influential Late-Night NBC Comedy Show Saturday Night Live Appearing In Many Musical Sketches Including Howard Shore And His All-Nurse Band And Dressed As A Beekeeper For A John Belushi/Dan Aykroyd Performance Of The Slim Harpo Classic "I'm A King Bee". Shore Also Suggested The Name For The Blues Brothers To Dan Aykroyd And John Belushi. Since 2004 He Has Toured The World Conducting Local Orchestras In The Performance Of His New Symphonic Arrangement Of His Highly Acclaimed Lord Of The Rings Scores. The New Work Is Entitled The Lord Of The Rings Symphony In Six Movements. There Are Two Movements For Each Of The Movies And An Intermission Between The Second And Third Or First And Second Film Titles Movements. The Concert Presentation Of The Symphony Also Includes Projected Still Images Of Sketches By John Howe And Alan Lee Relating The Music Being Performed To Scenes From The Films. Recently However Shore Has Been Busy With Other Projects Leaving Other Conductors Including Markus Huber Ludwig Wicki Alexander Mickelthwaite And John Mauceri To Lead The Orchestras. April 24 2008 Marked The North American Live To Projection Debut Of Fellowship Of The Ring With The Score Performed Live By The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra Conducted By Ludwig Wicki. Wicki Also Conducted The Filene Center Orchestra At The Wolf Trap Farm Park In Vienna Virginia On May 21 And 22 2008 In The U.S. Premiere Of The Fellowship Of The Ring Live To Projection. September 16 2010 Shore Conducted The RSO Vienna Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra Which Performed "In Dreams From The Fellowship Of The Ring" At Hollywood In Vienna In Vienna Austria. Shore Was Commissioned By Macy's To Write A Fanfare For The Store's 150th Anniversary Featuring The Philadelphia Orchestra And The Wanamaker Organ The World's Largest Playing Pipe Organ. The Work Was Debuted In The Grand Court Of Macy's Philadelphia Store On September 27 2008 In A Concert That Drew Reviews From Most Of The Major East Coast Newspapers. Shore's Opera The Fly Had Its World Premiere Performance At The Théâtre Du Châtelet In Paris On July 2 2008 And Its United States Premiere At Los Angeles Opera On September 7 2008. The Production Was Directed By David Cronenberg And Conducted By Plácido Domingo. The Fly Had A New Production Mounted By Theatre Trier In Germany In 2014 Staged By Sebastian Welker And Conducted By Joongbae Jee. Shore Was Commissioned By The Beijing Music Festival To Write Ruin And Memory A Piano Concerto For Renowned Pianist Lang Lang. The World Premiere Was On October 11 2010 Performed By Lang Lang The China Philharmonic Orchestra And Conducted By Long Yu. His Second Concerto Mythic Gardens Premiered April 27 2012 With Sophie Shao On Cello Solo The American Symphony Orchestra And Conducted By Leon Botstein. Shore's Song Cycle A Palace Upon The Ruins Premiered In 2014 At The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival And At The La Jolla SummerFest Featuring Mezzo-Soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano. A Palace Upon The Ruins Is A Song Cycle Of Six Songs With Words By Elizabeth Cotnoir. Sea To Sea Was Commissioned By New Brunswick Youth Orchestra In Celebration Of Canada’s 150th Anniversary Of Confederation And Premiered On July 2 2017 In Moncton New Brunswick With Soloist Measha Brueggergosman And Antonio Delgado Conducting. Sea To Sea Has Lyrics By Elizabeth Cotnoir. The Song Cycle L’Aube Premiered October 19 & 20 2017 In Toronto At Roy Thompson Hall Conducted By Peter Oundjian And Performed By Soloist Susan Platts And Commissioning Orchestra The Toronto Symphony Orchestra. L’Aube Consists Of Five Songs With Text By Elizabeth Cotnoir. The Forest A Guitar Concerto Composed For Miloš Karadaglić Will Premiere In Ottawa On May 1 & 2 2019 With The National Arts Centre Orchestra And Alexander Shelley Conducting. In Addition To Writing The Original Theme Song For Saturday Night Live As Well As The Closing Theme Shore Also Co-Wrote The Theme Song For Late Night With Conan O'Brien With John Lurie. The Theme Was Carried Over To The Tonight Show When O'Brien Succeeded Jay Leno As Host. Shore Narrated A One-Hour CBC Radio Documentary/soundscape On Music In Thriller/suspense Film Genres Also Including References To Radio Dramas And Other Media. The Episode Was Called "Unsettling Scores" And Premiered On The Program Called Inside The Music. Shore Is Married To Elizabeth Cotnoir A Writer Producer And Documentary Filmmaker. He Has A Daughter Mae. 35 He Is The Uncle Of Film Composer Ryan Shore. As Of 2004 Shore Lives In Tuxedo Park New York.
Frogtoon Music - Song Info: Théoden Rides Forth
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Featuring Ben Del Maestro. The King’s Riders Catch The Uruks By Surprise Dislodging Them From The Causeway. A Brilliant Setting Of The Rohan Fanfare Carries The Eorlingas Into The Field Of Uruks Beyond. Expectantly Aragorn Casts His Eyes Eastwards Towards The Rising Sun Where They Are Met By A Horse A Rider And A Most Welcome Choral Performance Of A Single Word “Sceadufæx ” Or Shadowfax. Just As He Promised Gandalf The White Has Returned And With Him Are Éomer And His 3 000 Riders Of Rohan. The Sunlight Breaks Onto The Darkened Earth Scorching The Uruks. Gandalf And The Riders Charge Laying Waste To The Uruk Horde. Ben Del Maestro And Mixed Chorus Continue To Sing A Cresting Setting Of “The Mearas ” Above Which Luminous Violins Perform Gandalf The White In The Fellowship . The Connection Is Complete. Gandalf Remade By Nature Has Borne Its Will To The Fellowship And To The Rohirrim Uniting These Forces Against Sauron And His Minions. But Nature Still Has Business With Isengard. Percussion Resumes A Martial Stride And The Ents Are Unleashed. Orchestra And Chorus Swell Developing Passages Of The Nature Theme And Rising Across The Score’s Most Extended Crescendo. As The Melodic Line Endlessly Climbs Effervescent Arpeggiated Figures Flow Through Accompanying Lines And The Ents Burst The Dam. The Music Like The Mighty Waters Cleanses Isengard Extinguishing Its Fires Razing The Wicked Structures With Which It Has Polluted The Land. Brass Chatters In Rhythmic Fanfares Declaring That Despite Its Sedentary And Graceful Formality Nature Is Capable Of Such Force That Even Saruman Cannot Stand Against It. Saruman However Is But One Finger Of Sauron’s Fist. In Osgiliath The Dark Lord Continues To Tighten His Grip. The Nazgûl Searches The City For Frodo Who Now Wanders The Streets Dazed. Shore Again Holds Open String Pitches Threatening To Introduce The Seduction Theme. Frodo’s Will Holds Strong But Nothing Can Stop The Nazgûl From Introducing His Own Abhorrent Harmonies Into The Wind Writing. With A Dissonant Burst The Rider Finds Frodo Atop A Stone Stairway. Frodo Takes The Ring In Hand Ready To Slip It On As The Open Strings Await His Next Move. Ever Faithful Sam Races To Frodo’s Side And With A Careening String Triplet The Two Tumble Down The Stairs. UNUSED CONCEPT In The Finished Film This Appearance Of The Gandalf The White In Nature Theme Was Replaced With An Edited In Version Of Nature’s Reclamation. Although Both Themes Speak To Gandalf’s Connection To The Natural World Shore Originally Intended To Delineate The Action At Helm’s Deep And The Ents’ Action At Isengard With Separate Themes. The Music Is Heard Here On CD As Shore Originally Wrote It The Delineation Intact. TEXTS
THE MEARAS
Text By Philippa Boyens
Old English Translation By David Salo
First Heard Disc Two | Track Thirteen
Híe Hine Sáwon Feorran | In The Distance They Saw Him And Hwíte Sunnan In Mane | White Sun Caught In His Mane.
Híe Lange Hine Clipodon | Long They Called Him –
ac Hé Ne Wolde Cuman | But He Would Not Come.
For Thon Hé Wæs Sceadufæx | For He Was Shadowfax –
Hláford Ealra Méara | Lord Of All Horses.
and Hé Ne Andswarode Bútan Ánne. | And He Answered To Only One. C The Annotated Score The Music Of The Lord Of The Rings Films
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Howard Leslie Shore OC Born October 18 1946 Is A Canadian Composer Who Is Notable For His Film Scores. He Has Composed The Scores For Over 80 Films Most Notably The Scores For The Lord Of The Rings And The Hobbit Film Trilogies. He Won Three Academy Awards For His Work On The First Trilogy With One Being For The Original Song "Into The West" An Award He Shared With Eurythmics Lead Vocalist Annie Lennox And Writer/producer Fran Walsh Who Wrote The Lyrics. He Is Also A Consistent Collaborator With Director David Cronenberg Having Scored All But One Of His Films Since 1979. Shore Has Also Composed A Few Concert Works Including One Opera The Fly Based On The Plot Of Cronenberg's 1986 Film Premiered At The Théâtre Du Châtelet In Paris On July 2 2008 A Short Piece Fanfare For The Wanamaker Organ And The Philadelphia Orchestra And A Short Overture For The Swiss 21st Century Symphony Orchestra. In Addition To His Three Academy Awards Shore Has Also Won Three Golden Globe Awards And Four Grammy Awards. Howard Shore Was Born In Toronto Ontario Canada The Son Of Bernice Née Ash And Mac Shore. Shore Is Jewish. He Started Studying Music At The Age Of 8 Or 9. He Learned A Multitude Of Instruments And Began Playing In Bands At The Ages Of 13 And 14. When Shore Was 13 He Met And Became Good Friends With A Young Lorne Michaels In Summer Camp And This Friendship Would Later Be Influential In His Career. By 17 He Decided He Wanted To Pursue Music In His Adult Life Too. He Studied Music At Berklee College Of Music In Boston After Graduating From Forest Hill Collegiate Institute. From 1969 To 1972 Shore Was A Member Of The Jazz Fusion Band Lighthouse. In 1970 He Became The Music Director For Lorne Michaels And Hart Pomerantz's Short-Lived TV Program The Hart & Lorne Terrific Hour. Shore Wrote The Music For Canadian Magician Doug Henning's Magic Musical Spellbound In 1974 And From 1975 To 1980 He Was The Musical Director For Lorne Michaels' Influential Late-Night NBC Comedy Show Saturday Night Live Appearing In Many Musical Sketches Including Howard Shore And His All-Nurse Band And Dressed As A Beekeeper For A John Belushi/Dan Aykroyd Performance Of The Slim Harpo Classic "I'm A King Bee". Shore Also Suggested The Name For The Blues Brothers To Dan Aykroyd And John Belushi. Since 2004 He Has Toured The World Conducting Local Orchestras In The Performance Of His New Symphonic Arrangement Of His Highly Acclaimed Lord Of The Rings Scores. The New Work Is Entitled The Lord Of The Rings Symphony In Six Movements. There Are Two Movements For Each Of The Movies And An Intermission Between The Second And Third Or First And Second Film Titles Movements. The Concert Presentation Of The Symphony Also Includes Projected Still Images Of Sketches By John Howe And Alan Lee Relating The Music Being Performed To Scenes From The Films. Recently However Shore Has Been Busy With Other Projects Leaving Other Conductors Including Markus Huber Ludwig Wicki Alexander Mickelthwaite And John Mauceri To Lead The Orchestras. April 24 2008 Marked The North American Live To Projection Debut Of Fellowship Of The Ring With The Score Performed Live By The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra Conducted By Ludwig Wicki. Wicki Also Conducted The Filene Center Orchestra At The Wolf Trap Farm Park In Vienna Virginia On May 21 And 22 2008 In The U.S. Premiere Of The Fellowship Of The Ring Live To Projection. September 16 2010 Shore Conducted The RSO Vienna Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra Which Performed "In Dreams From The Fellowship Of The Ring" At Hollywood In Vienna In Vienna Austria. Shore Was Commissioned By Macy's To Write A Fanfare For The Store's 150th Anniversary Featuring The Philadelphia Orchestra And The Wanamaker Organ The World's Largest Playing Pipe Organ. The Work Was Debuted In The Grand Court Of Macy's Philadelphia Store On September 27 2008 In A Concert That Drew Reviews From Most Of The Major East Coast Newspapers. Shore's Opera The Fly Had Its World Premiere Performance At The Théâtre Du Châtelet In Paris On July 2 2008 And Its United States Premiere At Los Angeles Opera On September 7 2008. The Production Was Directed By David Cronenberg And Conducted By Plácido Domingo. The Fly Had A New Production Mounted By Theatre Trier In Germany In 2014 Staged By Sebastian Welker And Conducted By Joongbae Jee. Shore Was Commissioned By The Beijing Music Festival To Write Ruin And Memory A Piano Concerto For Renowned Pianist Lang Lang. The World Premiere Was On October 11 2010 Performed By Lang Lang The China Philharmonic Orchestra And Conducted By Long Yu. His Second Concerto Mythic Gardens Premiered April 27 2012 With Sophie Shao On Cello Solo The American Symphony Orchestra And Conducted By Leon Botstein. Shore's Song Cycle A Palace Upon The Ruins Premiered In 2014 At The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival And At The La Jolla SummerFest Featuring Mezzo-Soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano. A Palace Upon The Ruins Is A Song Cycle Of Six Songs With Words By Elizabeth Cotnoir. Sea To Sea Was Commissioned By New Brunswick Youth Orchestra In Celebration Of Canada’s 150th Anniversary Of Confederation And Premiered On July 2 2017 In Moncton New Brunswick With Soloist Measha Brueggergosman And Antonio Delgado Conducting. Sea To Sea Has Lyrics By Elizabeth Cotnoir. The Song Cycle L’Aube Premiered October 19 & 20 2017 In Toronto At Roy Thompson Hall Conducted By Peter Oundjian And Performed By Soloist Susan Platts And Commissioning Orchestra The Toronto Symphony Orchestra. L’Aube Consists Of Five Songs With Text By Elizabeth Cotnoir. The Forest A Guitar Concerto Composed For Miloš Karadaglić Will Premiere In Ottawa On May 1 & 2 2019 With The National Arts Centre Orchestra And Alexander Shelley Conducting. In Addition To Writing The Original Theme Song For Saturday Night Live As Well As The Closing Theme Shore Also Co-Wrote The Theme Song For Late Night With Conan O'Brien With John Lurie. The Theme Was Carried Over To The Tonight Show When O'Brien Succeeded Jay Leno As Host. Shore Narrated A One-Hour CBC Radio Documentary/soundscape On Music In Thriller/suspense Film Genres Also Including References To Radio Dramas And Other Media. The Episode Was Called "Unsettling Scores" And Premiered On The Program Called Inside The Music. Shore Is Married To Elizabeth Cotnoir A Writer Producer And Documentary Filmmaker. He Has A Daughter Mae. 35 He Is The Uncle Of Film Composer Ryan Shore. As Of 2004 Shore Lives In Tuxedo Park New York.
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Featuring Ben Del Maestro.
The King’s riders catch the Uruks by surprise, dislodging them from the causeway. A brilliant setting of the Rohan Fanfare carries the Eorlingas into the field of Uruks beyond. Expectantly, Aragorn casts his eyes eastwards towards the rising sun, where they are met by a horse, a rider and a most welcome choral performance of a single word: “Sceadufæx,” or Shadowfax.
Just as he promised, Gandalf the White has returned, and with him are Éomer and his 3,000 Riders of Rohan. The sunlight breaks onto the darkened earth, scorching the Uruks. Gandalf and the Riders charge, laying waste to the Uruk horde. Ben Del Maestro and mixed chorus continue to sing a cresting setting of “The Mearas,” above which luminous violins perform Gandalf the White (In the Fellowship). The connection is complete. Gandalf, remade by Nature, has borne Its will to the Fellowship and to the Rohirrim, uniting these forces against Sauron and his minions.
But Nature still has business with Isengard. Percussion resumes a martial stride and the Ents are unleashed. Orchestra and chorus swell, developing passages of the Nature theme, and rising across the score’s most extended crescendo. As the melodic line endlessly climbs, effervescent arpeggiated figures flow through accompanying lines and the Ents burst the dam. The music, like the mighty waters, cleanses Isengard, extinguishing its fires, razing the wicked structures with which it has polluted the land. Brass chatters in rhythmic fanfares declaring that, despite its sedentary and graceful formality, Nature is capable of such force that even Saruman cannot stand against It.
Saruman, however, is but one finger of Sauron’s fist. In Osgiliath, the Dark Lord continues to tighten his grip. The Nazgûl searches the city for Frodo, who now wanders the streets, dazed. Shore again holds open string pitches, threatening to introduce the Seduction theme. Frodo’s will holds strong, but nothing can stop the Nazgûl from introducing his own abhorrent harmonies into the wind writing. With a dissonant burst the Rider finds Frodo atop a stone stairway. Frodo takes the Ring in hand, ready to slip it on as the open strings await his next move. Ever faithful, Sam races to Frodo’s side, and with a careening string triplet the two tumble down the stairs.
UNUSED CONCEPT:
In the finished film this appearance of the Gandalf the White (In Nature) theme was replaced with an edited in version of Nature’s Reclamation.
Although both themes speak to Gandalf’s connection to the natural world, Shore originally intended to delineate the action at Helm’s Deep and the Ents’ action at Isengard with separate themes.
The music is heard here on CD as Shore originally wrote it, the delineation intact.
TEXTS
THE MEARAS
Text by Philippa Boyens
Old English Translation by David Salo
First Heard: Disc Two | Track Thirteen
Híe hine sáwon feorran | In the distance they saw him,
And hwíte sunnan in mane | White sun caught in his mane.
Híe lange hine clipodon | Long they called him –
ac hé ne wolde cuman | but he would not come.
For thon hé wæs Sceadufæx | For he was Shadowfax –
Hláford ealra Méara | Lord of all Horses.
and hé ne andswarode bútan ánne. | And he answered to only one.
(c) The Annotated Score (The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.