Why Home Alone is the Best Christmas Soundtrack Ever
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- This is an objective truth and if you disagree then you are wrong regardless of any contradicting fact-based evidence.
And also, apparently I can't read. "Somewhere in my Memory" was nominated for an Oscar, not a Grammy, oops!
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It never occured to me that Carol of the Bells had the same melody as the beginning of Dies Irae. My world has been turned upside down, thanks Sideways.
you mean your world has been flipped sideways 😉
@@elijahstorm9740 o shit
I'm pretty sure it's just a coincidence though. The original melody of Carol of the bells is from an ukrainian New Year's carol about a swallow bringing the spring and good fortune with it or something. It's REALLY old, it had nothing to do with christianity, let alone christmas.
@@peterstangl8295 I assumed it was just a coincidence, it's just a weird one, that's all.
I didn't notice it, but I didn't grow up on Carol of the Bells here in Germany and the first time I heard it, I kind of associated the song with doom and darkness and maybe that's because what the melody had been associated with in my experience.
So, the key to writing good christmas music is to write it 30 years ago?
Yep.
Or earlier
Alternatively, you do as the Williams did and mess around, then wait. Eventually, your stuff will be in a Christmas playlist, it'll just take a decade or three.
@@shelfman1505 soo he wrote it some time ago. Seems like a proof, not an alternative
@@shelfman1505 simply put,
SO HE WROTE IT 30 YEARS AGO
*Sideways:*
*Me, who’s been binging his videos:* I stfg it’s the Dies Irae isn’t it
*Sideways:* iTs tHe diES iRaEs
I came to this video from Sweeney Todd video, so when he posed the question, at first I was like "Oh great, now I'm hearing things (dies irae) everywhere."
When he revealed it was *actually* dies irae, pathetically I felt so accomplished, like "yeah, I too can learn, take *that* music theory"...
I understood where he was going even before he played the theme.
"...one of the coolest easter eggs in all of the film score world..."
I feel more like a bingo player who's always waiting for Dies Irae to be mentioned :D BINGO!
@@materla4102 or leitmotifs
@@RTDelete Yeah, I have it stuck in my head so now I know. Now even my family know. Now everyone that talks to me for more than 10 minutes know!
Just for the record, the Nutcracker is crazy popular in Europe, too. Tschaikowsky was pretty unlucky with his ballets initially (Swan Lake was a bomb, too, Sleeping Beauty was his one big success), but they came to be beloved with time.
In the case of the Nutcracker - it is just the ideal ballet to get children interested. It is really, really hard to mess that one up. The score has multiple pieces which are very memorable - most ballets only have one or two which make you really want to hum to the music - the set pieces are usually colourful and the protagonist is a little girl. No wonder that it became a classic. It is also really, really hard to mess up. For the stage, that is. For movies, it is apparently easy to mess up….
>only one or two which make you really want to hum
Tell that to my man Stravinsky
Oh, Le Sacre Du Printemps is one of my favs, but not really all that kid-friendly. Most of Stravinsky's Ballets are kind of dark. I guess the Firebird comes the closest of something you could pick...
nakakatawa ka talaga hahaha
@@swanpride Just showed my nine-year-old sister the sacrificial maiden's dance at the end of Le Sacre. Seems a bit morbid, I know, but she's really involved in dance (she's learning like nine different kinds and takes multiple classes every day) and was absolutely spellbound by the dancing. (She's mature enough for the dark themes, which I explained in the simplest terms possible). And for a lighter mood, I showed her the horse dance in Satie's "Parade" just because it's awkward and hilarious, and she was super amused and wanted to keep watching it. The Nutcracker is a great Christmas tradition, but at the same time, it's become so intertwined with Christmas, we see it more in line with festive commercialism than we do with the performing arts, which is a shame because it's absolutely an art form. For my sister, who does ballet but whose favourite dance genre is hip-hop, more non-traditional ballet probably spoke to her more. Then again, maybe she's a bit of an outlier since she's more exposed to dance...
Well, I said it is a good starter ballet...I didn't say that there isn't more out there to enjoy. Le Sacre is really great, especially if you watch a more modern take of it.
Ironically the first time I saw the Nutcracker, it wasn't a particularly chrismassy take. It was done pretty dark and dramatic. If you see it that way, it is absolute an artful ballet. But I enjoyed the more sugary take I saw a few years later, too. But then, they had a first class dancer in this one. It is hard to argue about artistic merit when the dancers are doing moves which would impress an acrobat.
The advantage of the Nutcracker is that there isn't a single piece in it which is boring or repetitive, and you never quite know what comes next due to the creative settings. If you start with something like Giselle instead, it could bore a newbie, and there is a high risk that someone decided to cut down the number of dancers to save money, which in turn tends to kind of ruin the ballet, since it is all about the impressive group performances. They look way less impressive if there are only 5 to 10 people on stage instead of up to 20.
I've always thought Home Alone was among some of John Williams' best work.
Wait! you watch sideways too?? love it
12:19 I know this hymntune mostly as a Lent hymn (Jesus, Lover of my Soul)
My favorite musical moment in Home Alone is actually just after that church scene between Kevin and the (not)creepy old dude, where Williams transitions perfectly from the end of Carol of the Bells into the awesome upbeat beginning of "Setting the Trap" (a track that kinda makes me wish for drum machine remixes of all John Williams' music ever written)
That is one of my favorite scenes too in the movie.
"Setting the trap" also gives us a wink of Hedwigs Theme. "Steal from the best" is a good motto if you are the best and steal from yourself
I've only actually seen Home Alone once, and it was YEARS ago, but I can still call to mind that main theme perfectly. If that doesn't prove John Williams is a genius, I don't what does.
And it feels like pure nostalgia now!
Only once? Home Alone is must watch every Christmas season.
What makes it sound like Christmas? Dm7♭5 of course.
I was looking for this comment
I prefer to voice it as an Fm6.
I recognise that this is a reference, but I can't recall _where_ it's a reference from. Anyone care to remind me?
@@JimCullen vox made vid about what makes christmas sound christmassy and one of the main(ish) points was that that one chord makes it christmassy. then Adam Neely and all other musicians made a bit of fun and meme out of it
@ oh yeah, that's right! I think that was when I finally stopped watching Vox's music-related videos. They're all pretty bad, but that one was the last straw.
Not gonna lie, I want to listen to Dies Irae and Carol of the Bells now. This explains why Carol of the Bells feels tense to me. I love it because of its fast pace, and the strange haunting feeling it gives me. As a big fan of singing the Dies Irae, this makes perfect sense to me now.
I feel like if the basses are really good they can add to the tension as well. My high honor choir went to the nationals and I was between a tenor and bass, and when the bass sang, my ribs vibrated, lol. It was SILENT when we’d finish it. Every time. It was... really cool. One of my favorites. And altos really get the short shrift, lol. We get to end it by ourselves, which is rare, but we don’t do much. But I loved being in the midst of that cloud of tension. “Will we do it, will we keep time and not rush but also not dawdle, will the sopranos arch correctly, will we fade out in the correct proportion?” Not the hardest song we did, but we did it really really well. Ahh memories. Most of them were absolute jerks. But it was quite a thing to be a part of.
@@SunflowerSpotlight I understand that last sentiment exactly. I've sung soprano and alto in both pieces and you're right: Altos do not get the credit they deserve.
@@ceres090 altos for real. I remember practice lol Bass here so yeah I was sleeping during class a lot
@@SunflowerSpotlight As an alto I thank you for appreciating us and not forgetting about us 😂😂
Speaking of Carol of the Bells, I'm just going to throw this out there: The original lyrics are better.
I always thought that "Somewhere in my memory" also perfectly captures the literal situation of a boy home alone, especially on high pitched recorders or flutes or when whistled.
It kind of captures that "but it wasn't my fault!" spirit some kids have.
Because John Williams made it
Case closed
Dude I see you everywhere
Case closed
Agreed haha
when he keeps referencing the star wars soundtrack instead of harry potter and the philosopher's stone
Well yes but arguably no
you make a good point
Talk about Avatar the Last Airbender's soundtrack
@The Flying Orange
Yes
The ATLA soundtrack uses the Dies Irae so perfectly, I would love to get a deeper analysis of it as a whole
@@AnneleenRoesems
Isn't the fire nation/ Azulas theme basically Dies Irae?
Yes, please!
Yes! I love the eastern elements in their music.
Something interesting that I heard in a Tom Scott video is that, while in America, Christmas carols were written in the 40s, 50s and 60s, in Britain, the most popular Christmas songs were written in the 70s and 80s. Possibly because unlike America, Britain was not in a great space for the late 1940s and 1950s.
The Katazsi Universe-As someone from the UK i can tell you that there's definitely some truth to your comment. We do also love our more traditional carols, & Christmas songs from the 50s as well, but for those of us who grew up in the UK it just doesn't feel like Christmas if we don't hear those songs (especially Last Christmas, Merry Christmas Everybody from Slade, & Fairytale Of New York), because those were the songs that we'd hear played the most every year at Christmas when we were kids. Everytime i hear those songs they always take my mind straight back to the memories of the Christmas parties we'd have every year with my mums side of the family when I was growing up.
9:07 Me: "Huh, that sounds like the Dies Irae."
9:18 Me: "That would explain it."
I thought the exactly same thing
What about the 'Polar Express" with it's ONE song that they played every 5 minutes?
go make your nowhere plans for nobody, you nowhere man!
@@liamsemicolon Doesn't have a point of view
Knows not where he's going to
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere man please listen
You don't know what you're missing
Nowhere man, The world is at your command
He's as blind as he can be
Just sees what he wants to see
Nowhere man, can you see me at all
Nowhere man don't worry
Take your time, don't hurry
Leave it all till somebody else
Lends you a hand
@@zeitgeistdinahmoebwanafefe8721 amazing
talk about lietmotifs
That was Alan Silvestri trying his DAMNDEST to sound like John Williams.
The melody to the Christmas hymn "Watchmen tell us of the night" was written by Joseph Parry in 1876, and the melody is known as "Aberystwyth", after a Welsh town. It's more famous now, at least in the UK, as the melody to the hymn "Jesus, lover of my soul". It is even used in "The Crown" season 3, episode 3, in the funeral scene for the victims of the Aberfan disaster.
I personally find it to be one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written.
Regarding the “old, religious” tone you speak of:
As someone who works as a choir director/pianist of a fairly traditional Methodist church, I will say that a lot of the oldest hymns we sing are Christmas carols, and the frequency of these older tunes during the Advent season means that even devout members of traditional churches will associate that sound with Christmas.
GSAV-o153 there’s always one guy...
@Joanna d'Arc Can you just like go back to holding signs in the street and being made fun of?
Woo! You chose my idea! And everyone else's idea! I'm gonna pretend that I was the only one to suggest this idea!
Home Alone has to be one of my favourite soundtracks of all time. Like Star Wars, it's a huge part of what makes the movie great; honestly one of the best things about Christmas is being able to listen to the soundtrack again.
The score that plays when Kevin sets up all the traps around the house is awesome as well. It's a fugue while also incorporating the Star of Bethlehem theme. Also, the fugue subject sounds like it might've been an early prototype of the Harry Potter theme.
7:42 "Well, you guessed it: WW2"
Yeah... I didn't see that coming, at all
Nostalgia is a scary thing. Both my parents love 1940s movies and music, yet they were born in the 1950s and grew up in the 60s. I myself was born in the mid 80s and grew up in the 1990s, yet my nostalgia comes from music and movies of the 1970s and 80s. You could say this is just because kids watch movies from a decade or so earlier and grow attached to them. But in my experience, most kids I see grow attached to the music and movies of their actual time period. While I was obsessing over Hook, Back to the Future and Star Wars, most of my friends were obsessing over Jurrasic Park, Nightmare Before Christmas and Independence Day, contemporary movies of the decade we were in. And while I enjoy movies from the mid to late 90s, I never really feel "nostalgic" over them. I have to go to earlier movies to get that sense of nostalgia. Especially movies that came out before I was born. This plays right into the videos point about how people from the 1980s would find nostalgia from 1950s carols and movies, not the 1980s.
Anyway, all that said, Somewhere in my Memory always stood out to me in this film. It doesn't sound like a Christmas song to me. It sounds like the typical touching song from an entire era of Hollywood. And I don't mean that to lessen it. It is one of my favorite songs and I credit it as making Home Alone my favorite Christmas movie. However, after Home Alone, it seemed like dozens of other movies all had to have their "touching theme". Including many John Williams scores. Especially a certain song in Harry Potter that I'm sure people will recall just hearing the name Harry Potter. It's also similar to themes in Hook and ET. My point is, the song is basically the most John Williams style song I can think of and defines my childhood nostalgia. So while it may sound Christmasy for some people, for me it sticks out as definitive John Williams. And in the best way possible.
Muppet's Christmas carol begs to differ.
PREEEEEEACH!
THANK YOU!!! Don't get me wrong, this was good too but I personally hold MCC in higher regard.
Watching that film just makes me smile!
Somewhere In My Memory has only grown on me as an adult. It’s bittersweet because obviously I don’t have the same appreciation for the Christmas season now that I had as a kid, but it hits all the right nostalgia notes for me. It’s my favorite Christmas song.
Does anyone think that the opening notes of "Somewhere in my memory", the main theme from Polar Express (2004), and the main whistle theme from Elf (2003) sound similar?
I WAS THINKING THE EXACT SAME THING I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE !!!!
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Just watched this video and was about to comment a similar thing.
its honestly probably just the chord progressions, in my memory they are all pretty similar
That's really interesting about the Dies Irae being in Carol of the Bells.
The song itself is about the birth of Jesus Christ. However, we all know how Jesus' life went. So while the actual message is supposed to be joyous and that Christmas (the birth of Christ is here) the melody evokes the eventual death of Jesus.
Just a thought.
Okay but that parallel between Dies Irae and Carol Of The Bells... perhaps might have something to do with the same melody being the basis of “Making Christmas” in the Nightmare Before Christmas, which is mainly based around that same 4-note phrase
So glad you mentioned "Somewhere in my Memory". It's probably one of, if not my favorite, "Christmas" songs. And the lyrics emphasize that feeling of nostalgia as well, which I always felt was important too.
Somewhere in my memory is my go-to Christmas song, I can't even talk about how it makes me feel, made me cry when you mentioned it
Wow, this video explains why I love your videos so much. You just break things down so well and understandably while still going at a good speed, and you blow my mind a few hundred times in each video.
i love this. i never got to watch home alone as a kid... i feel like i was robbed.
also when i heard marley's theme, i didn't think immediately of the dies irae- my mind went straight to nightmare before christmas dskjflds
Alex Aliona Making Christmas!
Alex Aliona it because Making Christmas in Nightmare before Christmas utilities the Dies Irae in its soundtrack!! :)
Sometime I want you to play "Somewhere In My Memory" along with the chords to Pachelbel's Cannon in D on piano. All the questions in your life will be answered
“Somewhere in my memory” is such a good song!
Loved this video!
"Sideways posted a video 20 minutes ago." It's about Home Alone. That's an instant click from me.
Talk about "Somewhere in my Memory".... I saw this movie in theaters when I was about 10. My mother laughed so hard that she past wet herself. She died a year later. I heard that and almost instantly started to tear up. Thanks for happy memories.
I often have that same thought around this time. “ how is it that we don’t get newer Christmas music each year? It’s always stuff from the 50s?” The newer music that is around isn’t as popular. Thanks for giving me this aspect of nostalgia in my contemplation.
That's not entirely true. There are some relatively new and very popular christmas songs. Stuff like 'Last Christmas' or 'All i want for Christmas is you' for example. Christmas is the number one holiday that builds on nostalgia though, like Sideways said, so it takes time for a christmas song to really embed itself deep into the public conciousness as a christmas classic, but once it gets there, it tends to stick around for a long time.
Well...most of my favourite Christmas music is from the 1980s...but then, you wouldn't know it, because it is from a German composer for children songs.
But newer songs you should know also include "Wonderful Dream" (thank you Coca Cola).
Because modern music is horrible.
Why is Home Alone making a yt comeback 28 years later?
Nostalgia? It is approaching the 30 year cicle after all.
Yeah and M.Culkin apparently did an ad for google for the holidays as well. I'm here for it tho!
Can't forget his appearance on RedLetterMedia
Macaulay Culkin realized he could bank on his connection to general nostalgia if he cleaned up his act. He did so, and if that #1 Trending google ad is anything to go by, it worked. And you know what? Good for him.
Mr.Savagé and the AVGN video on the other home alone games
'Setting the Trap' is awesome!
Hey! That excerpt of Watchmen of the Night was the same melody as "Jesu Lover of my Soul"!
Sideways I absolutely love your videos and even though I am not a musician in any way shape or form, your videos have given me access to aspects of music that I've never realize upon hearing them. I learned so much about music because of your videos it actually makes me want to look up more things about music so I can learn about these things and maybe one day learn to play an instrument. I have a question, however, since next month is the release of Kingdom Hearts 3, will you make a video talking just about the music from the series? Like perhaps it tells a story through the music or what happens to certain characters can be heard via in the music. (My eyes are on Ventus's theme). Regardless, I can't wait for your next video!
Me watching Home Alone for the first time in 2020 with my parents and little sister: *hears Dies Irae with Old Man Marley* Hey that's Dies Irae!!
My parents and my sister: What the f**k is that?
One of MY Christmas traditions is rewatching this video. Absolutely love it and your other work. Merry Christmas, Sideways!
The history behind all this is so fascinating!! Awesome work!
This was an incredible video. By far one of the best and most insightful videos I've seen this year. Thanks for taking the time to figure this out and describe it! Williams is a Genius, for the record.
I don't understand why I cannot focus on a single research paper for my online class, yet I can marathon about 10 of your videos in a row and get so much more out of them! Thank you for your quality content!
Just watching Home Alone at Christmas (no.1 Christmas movie in Poland) and throwing soundtrack curiosities to my fam, thanks to your video. We are watching this movie every year and it's so good to know more stuff about it :)) thx a lot. Have a beautiful Christmas guys and hopefully the next year will be better!
Tchaikovsky really felt that his Christmas opera, 'Cherevichki' (usually translated in English as 'The Tsarina's Slippers') was the superior composition. It was never as popular as he'd hoped, and he spent the last years of his life repeatedly tweaking and rewritting the score and lyric to try to boost the opera and get it more recognition.
My toddler is obsessed with 'Tsarina's Slippers'. We've watched the Royal Opera House's performance more times than I can count, and no sign of stopping yet.
John Williams is a genius in so many ways.
I loved this! I wasn't sure what to expect but this is what I love about your channel!
Your videos are hands down the most interesting thing I've come across on CZcams. How wonderful! Thank you for your analysis!
No matter what you do PLEASE keep creating content. You are so uniquely brilliant
Thank you for sparking more christmas vibes.
I always thought that the first part of the melody in the "main theme", sounded like the notes played at airports before they announce stuff. At least that made sense to me since the family travels and he missed the flight (and takes the wrong one in the second one). Either way, great video and analysis, as always!
I love rewatching this video. Such great work! I would also add that the opening music to the film that repeats during the storm that knocks out the phone lines sounds like The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies from The Nutcracker.
i've been binge-watching your video's all day and in every single one so far, you've mentioned the dies irea
This soundtrack was one of my first CDs, I've listened to it many times over, and I love the perspective you added to that experience. Also it feels good to have an internet person make a video that matches your opinion!
Happy 200k Sideways! You deserve it!
Oh my God that old man Marley Easter egg made me cryyyyyyy!! I love your videos dude
Thank you! Great video, as always! I just want to mention that I believe "One Horse Open Sleigh" was initially a song for Thanksgiving time.
Wow what a fantastic video! Keep doing what your doing man!
Nail on the head with 'nostalgia'. Loving these videos where you go in depth.
Oh my god, mind blown.. My favorite scene in home alone is the church scene. I thought it was just because it has a choir, and I'm Swedish and in Sweden we have a lot of choir music, especially at holidays. But it's also the score itself being more "traditional" as you put it, because that's our Christmas music. The American examples you had are very modern types of Christmas music to us. So that scene is the one that makes me nostalgic, the one I relate to Christmas the most... I'd never thought about it. Love your videos.
somewhere in my memory is like, childhood for me because I would always be in a Christmas choir and we would always sing this song, oh memories
this was the final push i needed to subscribe to you; i’ve been binging all your videos for a while. congratulations on 200k subs, imitation dipper.
So thanks to this video I knew EXACTLY when the sound track for this movie came on my work place's Christmas playlist. It was wild hearing a song come on, think "that Sounds like the Nutcracker but ITS NOT", then think "is this the home alone sound track?", then have it confirmed by the prim lite motif of Star of Bethlehem play like three times in a row and know all of this because of this blasted video.
Wow this is so well explained and really so amazing! Keep it up Sideways
Somewhere In My Memory is my favorite Christmas song! Thanks so much for this beautiful video!
You make really good content and I am very grateful
I've been screaming this on street corners for years and now the world is finally aware of home alone's superiority when it comes to music
This is such a great channel! I'm so glad I found it.
this was such an incredible breakdown of one of my favorite Chrismtas movies. and now i know why the soundtrack sounds so nostalgic--the nutcracker suite is one of my favorite pieces of music.
I am very thankful for your videos because while I sometimes feel what music is trying to do, I can't read sheet music and have no clue what tricks are woven into the score most of the time (like that Picardy third thing, that sound like double Dutch to me). Home Alone is part of my childhood and my Christmas playlist too, so thank you for explaining, and Merry Christmas!
Sang this for my chorus's competition piece this summer! Couldn't help but think of this whole video.
Wow got here early. Good videos Sideways!
Missed opportunity at the end after you said "Merry Christmas" you could have followed with, "ya filthy animals".
(also thank you this video was very informative and enjoyable to watch - I just wrote a paper on dies ires and this was nice)
I thought that the “star of Bethlehem” carol by Williams sounded like “God rest ye merry gentlemen” too:). Also that part about the Di-es I-rae was an awesome connection. I always heard a darker “carol of the bells” in the old man Marley motif, but that other extra bit is truly cool. Thanks!!!
Great dissection of the themes! Those original carols were pretty amazing. On the subject of Christmas Music in minor keys, Coventry Carol is pretty rad.
Thank you for bringing light to this soundtrack! The thing with making a soundtrack for a christmas movie is that it would be a really easy task if one were to just slap on some classic xmas tunes and nutcracker public domain tracks, but it's the fact that John Williams put so much thought and effort into it that it can build the movie's own identity as well as establish it within a known Christmas canon. Great video as always!
your work is great, thank you
I'm not sure if you read comments, especially on old videos, but I just wanted to say that you're actually teaching me things, and I thought my brain was fried from too much tv. When I watched this video, I had already seen both the sweeney todd and the nightmare before christmas videos, so when you got to the part about Old Man Marley's leitmotif, I knew it was the dies irae before you said it. I'd never heard the name of that piece before your videos, and honestly wouldn't have recongnized it outside of Hunchback of Notre Dame before you. So thank you for renewing my faith in my own ability to learn
Dude I have learned so much trivia from channels like these that I have no idea what I know anymore
My favorite Christmas songs are all medieval.
I love the original music throughout the first two home alone movies, but I do really like the nostalgia of earlier 20th century music and atmosphere.
That Dies Irae detail was one I'd never caught ahold of before. This was an awesome video.
I recently played it with our orchestra (I play horn). Soo beautiful...
Thanks for this breakdown! Nice job! I love Home Alone-and yes, one of the reasons why, is the music throughout-very "Christmas-y" .
Liked before I even watched... since the soundtrack is a must on all Christmas playlists I've ever made.
So, I'd just watched your video about Dies Irae and Sweeney Todd, and then I think later that day watched Home Alone for the first time (I know, I'm late). So I actually totally caught the reference in Old Man Marley's theme! Thanks for making me feel smart.
Great analysis! You nailed it: NOSTALGIA. I really appreciated your logic and music history of it all. Also, I really enjoyed all of your John Williams themes and breakdowns. He is brilliant on every level, and Tchaikovsky is one of the greatest arranger/orchestrators who ever lived (in my opinion).
I associate all of my favorite Christmas music with sounding old, including the gorgeous Vince Guaraldi Trio works for Charlie Brown
Lovely! Thank you. Now I'm off to listen to, Somewhere in my memory.
so little rant but i'm a 𝒷𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑒𝓇𝒾𝓃𝒶 and my old dance studio used somewhere in my memory as like the little kids dance in our winter show and listening to it gave me so much nostalgia and actually made me cry so thank you for recognizing my childhood
I was watching this for the first time in like 10 years a couple weeks ago and noticed dies irae but I didn’t noticed how it was “resolved” at the end. Holy crap. Thank you.
Merry Christmas, Sideways
Ive been listening to somewhere in my memory every year for along time. i cant even get into the mind set that its christmas until i hear that song and its such an important song too me.
Not sure why I was recommended this in July, but I've liked it anyway! That Deus Irae thing is really cool.
Man, what an amazing video. 😍
Up to this point I’ve watched so much of your videos that as soon as you began to mention old man marley’s theme, I knew it was the dies ire
Very well analysed and researched, very enjoyable, congrats on a great video essay.
One thing I would add though, concerning Williams' "Somewhere In My Memory" theme:
As much as it does sound Christmassy like the Nutcracker and "Star of Bethlehem", I think there's a better explanation for it's nostalgic sound due to Williams' larger compositional technique. The motif is very similar to his Pan theme in 'Hook', which shares a child-like perspective. It's use is supposed to tap into our nostalgia for childhood more so than Christmas, I think. Not to say that your interpretation is contrary to that idea!
A really great analysis!
You 100% are my favourite CZcamsr! Would love it if you made a video about La La Land and maybe how it's old Hollywood inspiration influenced the music (if it did)
Omg Andrew Huang in your video! The unexpected crossover
Thanks for this. Somewhere In My Memory is one of my favorites from these movies and from John Williams in general. A close second is When You're Alone from the Hook movie, which I just found out was originally intended to be a Musical. That would make a great video.