Synth Scores That Would Be Much Better for Full Orchestra

Fugues · **Joined:** Tue Oct 15, 2019 9:23 pm **Posts:** 603

Not every synth score would translate well to orchestra, though some could be quite interesting. Which would you say fit in the latter category?

One score that I think would benefit greatly from full orchestral arrangement is Alan Silvestri's Delta Force.

Yavar Moradi · **Posted:** Thu Oct 21, 2021 12:38 am

Goldsmith’s Runaway

Yavar

Toby The Swede · **Posted:** Fri Oct 22, 2021 11:15 pm

Lokutus · **Posted:** Sat Oct 23, 2021 1:45 pm

Ladyhawke

Anyi · **Joined:** Thu May 10, 2012 9:31 am **Posts:** 3

James Horner´s "The Name of the Rose"

Mike Shuman · **Posted:** Tue Nov 30, 2021 1:47 am

btrain · **Joined:** Thu May 03, 2007 9:56 pm **Posts:** 40

Goldsmith's RUNAWAY - the cues "Alley Flight" and "Lockons" - I'd love to hear what those cues would sound like if played with a full orchestra.

WorkingWithKnives · **Posted:** Wed Dec 01, 2021 7:24 am

The best composers created a new sound with their electronic scores. The hacks create artificial sounds that mimic musical instruments and replace actual musicians. Any idiot can do that with a laptop computer...

I like electronic film scores, Videodrome (Howard Shore), Runaway (Jerry Goldsmith), The Andromeda Strain (Gil Mellé) and the granddaddy of them all, Forbidden Planet (Louis and Bebe Barron)...

Fugues · **Joined:** Tue Oct 15, 2019 9:23 pm **Posts:** 603

JeffG · **Posted:** Thu Dec 02, 2021 4:31 pm

Over the summer, the Hollywood Bowl did a live-to-film performance of "The Princess Bride", with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra performing a new, fully orchestral arrangement of Mark Knopfler's score. It was something of a revelation. The action, romance, emotional content, and even the humor all seemed more heightened. Obviously, the live musicians were part of it, but I truly think it was a better film with a full orchestra.

amblinmitchell · **Joined:** Thu Oct 29, 2020 10:39 am **Posts:** 9

The Chemical Brothers' music for Hanna would be much better if it was accompanied by a string orchestra & some soloists including a violin, a cello, percussion & piano.

Mike Shuman · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2021 11:08 pm

Nicolai P. Zwar · **Posted:** Tue Jan 04, 2022 2:54 am

Few if any, unless the reason synthesizers were used was to emulate "real" instruments.

Electronics have a certain timbre, and instrumentation is part of composing. If a composer chooses a certain electronic instrument, I don't see why it would be "better" had he not done so?

Scores like RUNAWAY are electronic scores, I don't see how translating them to an orchestra would make them "better" (certainly different).

I'm not nuts about transferring an orchestral score to synthesizer (Giorgio Moroder's adaptation of the "Superman Theme" isn't more than a curiosity), but likewise I don't see how a score like RUNAWAY would be improved if the electronic sonorities would be removed and replaced by violins, brass, and woodwind.

There's an argument to be made that Maurice Jarre's cue "Raising the Barn" from Witness works better as an orchestral cue though.

SheriffJoe · **Joined:** Sun Dec 12, 2010 7:52 pm **Posts:** 55

Goldsmith's Criminal Law would benefit greatly from a symphonic upgrade. As would Silvestri's Clan of the Cave Bear.

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