Bill Wrobel's DVD - Film Score Rundowns

I can’t say I like this bleak Ingmar Bergman film. I am not an Ingmar Bergman
fan (I think Woody Allen is!) per se but I can appreciate his filmmaking. So I purchased
this dvd because it was on sale and film scholar Peter Cowie provided a detailed
commentary. Because of it, and if you are interested in learning more about serious
filmmaking, then buy this dvd. Otherwise, I say, skip it. Out of respect of the quality of
(you guessed it!) “filmmaking” here, I will give the movie a three *** star rating but I
rarely ever revisit the movie.
-The Rocketeer (1991) *** [music ****]
http://www.amazon.com/Rocketeer-Bill-
Campbell/dp/6305428514/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1293331131&sr=1-1
This is a fun movie and decent action entertainment—although I understand the
movie bombed in the box office. I especially liked the period in the late Thirties with the
bad Nazi spies around (reminds me a lot of Indiana Jones). While not anywhere as good
and expertly directed as the first Indy movie, I still liked it (although I don’t necessarily
want to watch it often—once every several years is enough). The music is composed by
James Horner while he was still in exciting top form (I don’t know what happened to him
after the early years). I worked on the written score at Disney Studios way back in the
early Nineties sometime.
[Main Title] 1-M-1, 24 pages, 93 bars. This “Concert Score” cue was
orchestrated by John Neufeld on Judy Green 44-stave paper PS-1371. Initial
instrumentation: 3 flutes (a flute for each staff), 3 oboes (2 staves), 3 separate clarinets, 3
bassoons (2 staves), 2 alto saxes (“probably there will be only one sax…”), 6 horns (two
per staff), 3 trumpets (2 staves), 4 trombones (two staves)—one is a bass Pos—2 tubas,
glass wind chimes, brass wind chimes, timpani, 2 harps, piano, synth (“bubbling,
sparkle”), 16 violins I, 14 violins II, 14 violas, 10 celli, 8 CB. For the trumpets staves is
inserted the direction, “Copy all tpt. Parts on this picture in ‘C’—Player will use the
appropriate instruments!”
Flute I plays pppp Line 3 C down to Line 2 F to G up to Bb up to Line 3 C down
to F to G to Bb 32 nd notes (connected as a figure by three crossbeams) and played 4X in
this bar and next bar and twice in Bar 3 to Line 3 D 16 th (followed by a dotted 8 th and
quarter rest). Flute II plays pppp “6” sextuplet 16 th note figures 4X on Line 3 C-Line 2 F-
Bb-F-Line 3 C-Line 2 G. The glass wind chimes and gliss horizontal wavy line (notated
on x-headed 32 nd note on the second space of the staff from the bottom with the wavy
line crossing thru the next several bars. The brass wind chimes play similarly. Harp I top
staff plays pppp (always smooth) on Line 3 C-Line 2 BB-A-F-C up to F-A-Bb 32 nd notes
figure sounded 4X in this bar and next bar and twice in Bar 3 to Line 3 D-C-Line 2 BB-
F-D up to F-Bb-Line 3 C figure twice, and so forth. Harp II top staff plays “6” 16 th note
figures on Line 1 A-Bb-Line 2 C-F-G-G to next figure of C-Line 1 Bb-A-Bb-Line 2 C-F
to next figure of Line 2 G-F-C-Line 1 Bb-A-Bb to next figure of C up to G-G-F-C-Line 1
Bb (repeat this bar in the next bar). The synth top staff plays Line 3 C down to Line 2 G-
F-C up to F-G “6” 16ths figure 4X (“Shifting patterns but same notes”), while the bottom
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