Spitfire Scoring Competition is back!

[Taron]

Hello Everyone -

It is so great seeing so many varied approaches to the same scene. What a great tool these exercises are for teaching as they allow students to see how each approach alters the mood and enhances certain points of the clip. Thank you to all those who have shared and congratulations on such great work!

If you don't mind, I would like to add my approach to the mix, one that imparts a Baroque treatment as sort of a period score.

Thanks in advance for watching and for any feedback you might be willing to provide.

Best wishes in the competition!

Ah, this is fun! What's extra funny, though, is that it's literally a century off, if you think about it. This is supposed to play in the 19th century, just around Beethoven, so to say, while you're going for more of Mozart time and earlier. It's funny because of how much it makes me wonder about myself and how I merely feel the weird offset rather than "know" it, you know.
However, you've composed beautiful pieces in there with a great sense of authenticity, even if it goes further back.
Great stuff!

 

[Andy Ho]

Hi guys,
This is my first time entering this kind of competition, it has been fun listening to all very distinct approach. Here is my take on it.
Thank you for listening and any comments are more then welcome

 

[Trash Panda]

Proof of concept for this scoring competition. Should I continue?

 

[Mr Greg G]

Proof of concept for this scoring competition. Should I continue?

Please proceed.

 

[mybadmemory]

Proof of concept for this scoring competition. Should I continue?

That was unexpected! But yes! Please continue! :D

 

[mgaewsj]

Ah, this is fun! What's extra funny, though, is that it's literally a century off, if you think about it. This is supposed to play in the 19th century, just around Beethoven, so to say, while you're going for more of Mozart time and earlier. It's funny because of how much it makes me wonder about myself and how I merely feel the weird offset rather than "know" it, you know.
However, you've composed beautiful pieces in there with a great sense of authenticity, even if it goes further back.
Great stuff!

actually Bridgerton is set around 1820 and King George III was a lot into Handel (and many others) . More to follow

 

[dcoscina]

I think all of the entries are really good! nice work everyone!

 

[Taron]

actually Bridgerton is set around 1820 and King George III was a lot into Handel (and many others) . More to follow

And King George the IV was also not of African decent nor a woman, though, I cannot say if he was running around in dresses?! Rumors may give more clues there!

 

[Jeremy Spencer]

Hi guys,
This is my first time entering this kind of competition, it has been fun listening to all very distinct approach. Here is my take on it.
Thank you for listening and any comments are more then welcome

Ah, you took the John Cage approach! Well done.

 

[mgaewsj]

And King George the IV was also not of African decent nor a woman, though, I cannot say if he was running around in dresses?! Rumors may give more clues there!

btw king George IV was a patron of Haydn... uh-uh

 

[DSorah]

Ah, this is fun! What's extra funny, though, is that it's literally a century off, if you think about it. This is supposed to play in the 19th century, just around Beethoven, so to say, while you're going for more of Mozart time and earlier. It's funny because of how much it makes me wonder about myself and how I merely feel the weird offset rather than "know" it, you know.
However, you've composed beautiful pieces in there with a great sense of authenticity, even if it goes further back.
Great stuff!

Thanks for taking a moment to listen and comment! It’s great to know when this series was set. I’ve never seen an episode or looked into it, only going with my gut from the images I saw. However, I think I would have had a big challenge scoring this in the style of Beethoven. Thanks a bunch and good luck if you are entering the contest!

 

[The Retroblueman]

Thanks for taking a moment to listen and comment! It’s great to know when this series was set. I’ve never seen an episode or looked into it, only going with my gut from the images I saw. However, I think I would have had a big challenge scoring this in the style of Beethoven. Thanks a bunch and good luck if you are entering the contest!

I wouldn't worry - we Brits like to hang onto bangin' choons tooth and claw - there are still pubs in the UK with "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" on heavy rotation!! No reason to assume the case wasn't much the same 200 years ago

Being a little more serious - presumably the case must have been at least similar - how else would Bach and Handel have been preserved? (other than the thought that 1815-1820 is round about the point where I understand Beethoven himself was studying Bach and Handel obsessively).

 

[Trash Panda]

Please proceed.

That was unexpected! But yes! Please continue! :D

Well thank you for your support! Today, I am very excited to share my Official Bridgerton Scoring Competition entry. As always, I am happy to take any constructive feedback or advice from the forum.

 

[Mr Greg G]

Well thank you for your support! Today, I am very excited to share my Official Bridgerton Scoring Competition entry. As always, I am happy to take any constructive feedback or advice from the forum.

I like the idea! Regarding the recurring staccatos, why not make something more frightening and less "reassuring"?

 

[Andy Ho]

Ah, you took the John Cage approach! Well done.

It was youtube who did the John Cage thing for me.
No idea how and why. But here is my real score, I am sure it won't be John Cage again......

 

[Taron]

Thanks for taking a moment to listen and comment! It’s great to know when this series was set. I’ve never seen an episode or looked into it, only going with my gut from the images I saw. However, I think I would have had a big challenge scoring this in the style of Beethoven. Thanks a bunch and good luck if you are entering the contest!

Well, I took the plunge and chose to research a tiny bit after first having done just what you did and went at it. I found a wonderful youtube recap video for the first season along with a bit of wiki on the show, then even looked for popular composers in the early 1800s and found some most beautiful concerts only to realize that this is my go-to style, whenever I touch orchestras, hahaha. Like this:

Méhul: Symphony No.1
(I purposely didn't wrap it into "media" to avoid cluttering the thread even more than I already do!)

Except when I let myself go and follow my heart with an orchestral composition. Then I end up more in the romantic period around the turn into the 20th century.

 

[Trash Panda]

I like the idea! Regarding the recurring staccatos, why not make something more frightening and less "reassuring"?

I mean besides the fact that it’s basically a joke in video form?

Contrast, my good sir! I liked the idea of fading those happy chords into clustered staccatos.

 

[DoubleTap]

I mean besides the fact that it’s basically a joke in video form?

Contrast, my good sir! I liked the idea of fading those happy chords into clustered staccatos.

Besides, the narrative moments in the clips are all about a happy expectation turning sour, or at least ambivalent.

 

[Loïc D]

I mean besides the fact that it’s basically a joke in video form?

Contrast, my good sir! I liked the idea of fading those happy chords into clustered staccatos.

I like to relate scoring to allegories in the movie and you did a great job : people and situations seem clean and nice at the beginning and turn sour and aggressive when put under stress.

You've got something, dude !

 

[ism]

Well thank you for your support! Today, I am very excited to share my Official Bridgerton Scoring Competition entry. As always, I am happy to take any constructive feedback or advice from the forum.

I'm not sure if the is an absurdist joke, or scathing social satire.

Either way, I really like it.