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Hans Zimmer Collection: Piano Solo & Piano/Vocal
Hans Zimmer's film scores are bold and unmistakable. Over the course of his prolific career, he has provided music for some of the world's most beloved films, including Disney's The Lion King and Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight. This collection features faithful arrangements of some of the best known titles by this brilliant composer. 160 BPM (Angels and Demons) * Ah, Putrefaction (Sherlock Holmes) * All of Them! (King Arthur) * The Burning Bush (The Prince of Egypt) * Can You Hear Your Heart? (Winter's Tale) * Cheldorado (The Road to Eldorado) * Chevaliers de Sangreal (The Da Vinci Code) * Corynorhinus (Batman Begins) * The Dark Knight Overture (The Dark Knight) * Days of Thunder (Main Title) (Days of Thunder) * Discombobulate (Sherlock Holmes) * Doomsday Is Family Time (The Simpsons Movie) * Dream Is Collapsing (Inception) * Drink Up Me Hearties (Pirates of the At World's End) * Driving Miss Daisy (Driving Miss Daisy) * Homeland (Main Title) ( Stallion of the Cimarron) * Honor Him (Gladiator) * In the Beginning (The Bible) * It's So Overt It's Covert (Sherlock A Game of Shadows) * Krypton's Last (Man of Steel) * Life Goes On (A League of Their Own) * Maestro (The Holiday) * The Nativity (The Bible) * Now We Are Free (Gladiator) * Roll Tide (Crimson Tide) * Tennessee (Pearl Harbor) * This Is Clark Kent (Man of Steel) * This Land (The Lion King) * What Are You Going to Do When You Are Not Saving the World (Man of Steel).
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144 pages, Paperback
First published August 11, 2014
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April 26, 2021
A pretty run-of-the-mill big name publisher piano arrangement book. It does the job of getting the piano arrangements to the masses, but really only does it halfheartedly.
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I like that someone has taken the time to arrange these - or maybe I should say someone took the trouble to have them arranged. They are on the good side of mediocre, and are satisfying enough to play. I may learn one or two with a few of my own modifications.
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One thing that bothers me, though, is the apparent lack of interest in key signatures. For example, Corynorhinus, from Batman Begins is obviously in F minor, but is marked down as A minor, with every flat marked as an accidental instead. This not only shows a disregard for the music, but also shows bad editing on the part of the publisher. I can maybe understand that they were trying to make the arrangements not look so hard? But it seems to me that they failed at that, considering all the accidentals they ended up with. Or perhaps it was generated by an AI, and because some of the songs don't have a clear key signature throughout the piece, it didn't know what to do, so it panicked and just put it in C with accidentals? I don't know. Whatever the case, I wish they had paid more attention do such things and marked down the key signatures correctly.
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As I said above, it's okay. They're not the worst arrangements I've seen; I wouldn't be ashamed to play them in public. Maybe I'll learn one or two.
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I like that someone has taken the time to arrange these - or maybe I should say someone took the trouble to have them arranged. They are on the good side of mediocre, and are satisfying enough to play. I may learn one or two with a few of my own modifications.
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One thing that bothers me, though, is the apparent lack of interest in key signatures. For example, Corynorhinus, from Batman Begins is obviously in F minor, but is marked down as A minor, with every flat marked as an accidental instead. This not only shows a disregard for the music, but also shows bad editing on the part of the publisher. I can maybe understand that they were trying to make the arrangements not look so hard? But it seems to me that they failed at that, considering all the accidentals they ended up with. Or perhaps it was generated by an AI, and because some of the songs don't have a clear key signature throughout the piece, it didn't know what to do, so it panicked and just put it in C with accidentals? I don't know. Whatever the case, I wish they had paid more attention do such things and marked down the key signatures correctly.
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As I said above, it's okay. They're not the worst arrangements I've seen; I wouldn't be ashamed to play them in public. Maybe I'll learn one or two.
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