{"id":617,"date":"2022-04-20T01:32:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T01:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/?p=617"},"modified":"2022-04-20T01:32:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T01:32:26","slug":"the-genius-of-john-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/?p=617","title":{"rendered":"The Genius of John Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Williams is one of the most legendary modern composers of all time. He has written scores for a large number of big budget movies and many of those themes get stuck in people&#8217;s heads regularly. Some of his most notable work is in the <em>Star Wars <\/em>series, <em>Harry Potter, <\/em> and <em>Jaws. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Williams originally wanted to be a concert pianist, but started to compose music of his own. He composes his music very traditionally, with a pencil and paper. Williams also begins writing his music after he has watched the film in the projection room. He said that it gives him a more authentic feel for the film watching it rather than reading the script, and he knows where to pick up the pace of the film with his music and what some of the important moments are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arguably his most famous work was for <em>Star Wars Episode IV<\/em>: <em>A New Hope<\/em>, where he created one of the most iconic sound tracks of all time. One of the catchiest film songs of all time, coming from the cantina scene, was written by Williams. Rather than making the song futuristic with synthesizers, he opted for a jazzier approach. He created that song after George Lucas told him \u201cimagine several creatures in a future century finding some 30s Benny Goodman swing band music in a time capsule or under a rock someplace\u2026 how they might attempt to interpret it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Star Wars - Cantina scene (original audio)\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nSRwzP23ifI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">www.udiscovermusic.com\/stories\/john-williams-and-star-wars\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Williams is one of the most legendary modern composers of all time. He has written scores for a large number of big budget movies and many of those themes get stuck in people&#8217;s heads regularly. Some of his most notable work is in the Star Wars series, Harry Potter, and Jaws. Williams originally wanted&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/?p=617\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Genius of John Williams<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}