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Hans Zimmer

Hans Zimmer. By: Gabrielle Jones. Zimmer’s Life. Born Sept. 12, 1957 in Frankfurt Germany The Bugles “Video Killed the Radio Star” Stanley Meyers My Beautiful Launderette A World Apart 1988 Rain Man. Collaboration and Integration.

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Hans Zimmer

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  1. Hans Zimmer By: Gabrielle Jones

  2. Zimmer’s Life • Born Sept. 12, 1957in Frankfurt Germany • The Bugles “Video Killed the Radio Star” • Stanley Meyers My Beautiful Launderette • A World Apart • 1988 Rain Man

  3. Collaboration and Integration • “Father of integrating the electronic musical world with traditional orchestral arrangements.” • Learned through collaboration and experimentation

  4. Remote Control • Opened with Jay Rifkin • Used to be Media Ventures • Mentoring experiences and opportunities for composers around the world

  5. Works by Zimmer • Lion King best known • Other award winners: Rain Man, Gladiator, The Lion King, As Good as it Gets, The Preacher’s Wife, The Red Thin Line, and The Last Samurai • Also well known: Driving Miss Daisy, Batman Trilogy, Pirates of the Caribbean, Inception, and Madagascan:

  6. Awards • 7 Golden Globes, 7 Grammys, and 7 Oscars, American Music Awards, and Tony Awards

  7. “The Wings of a Film: The Music of Hans Zimmer” • 27th Annual Flanders International Film Festival Zimmer performed for the first time live • 100 member choir and a 100 member orchestra • Orchestrated concert versions of pieces from Gladiator, Mission: Impossible 2, The Lion King, Rain Man and The Red Thin Line • Recorded and released on CD

  8. The Dark Knight • Sound track released July 15, 2008 • Warner Bros. records • Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard • Combining two themes

  9. Listening Guide Pieces • “Why So Serious?” • “Introduce A Little Anarchy” • Both pieces named from a quote by the Joker

  10. “Why So Serious?” • 0:00- Starts out quietly with one note playing then slowly gets louder. • 0:37- More pitches join and make a very eerie sounding harmony. It continues to get louder as the pitches join in. • 1:31- A keyboard joins the rhythm creating a new harmony that is still eerie sounding. The intensity is starting to build as well. • 2:30- The same synthesized strong rhythm beings playing again making the piece more intense and increasing the volume. • 2:53- All the instruments stop and one pitch plays continuously as well as a different synthesized sound.

  11. “Why So Serious?” Cont. • 3:47- A rhythm beings playing by the maracas and creates a different harmony. • 4:43- The double beat rhythm begins playing again increasing volume as it continues. • 7:19- The piece gets very quiet with only the chimes fading out • 7:30- Right before it goes completely silent a single pitch starts playing again and is building sound. • 9:12- One last drum beat and the harmony drops except the one continuous note.

  12. “Introduce A Little Anarchy” • 0:10- Percussion and more stings join in the piece making in louder and having a faster rhythm. The feel it gives is there is a chase going on. • 0:40- The percussion stops and the strings play a single note followed by another. • 0:59- A single synthesized note begins playing as a double beat rhythm begins. The pitch of the single sound increases as does the volume.

  13. “Introduce A Little Anarchy” Cont. • 1:26- All but the percussion stops playing and the percussion continues the chasing like rhythm. • 1:41- The strings fade in getting louder and increasing pitch creating intensity. The percussion becomes stronger again. • 3:09- The piece speeds back up with percussion playing again.

  14. Works Cited • Hans Zimmer • www.hans-zimmer.com/index.php?rub:bio • www.imdb.com/name/nm0001877/bio?ref_=nm_on_bw_sm • www.classicfm.com/composers/zimmer • www.mtv.com/artists/hans-zimmer/biography/

  15. Works Cited • The Dark Knight • www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=1532 • batman.wikia.com/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_(Soundtrack) • www.allmusic.com

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