Howard Shore Confirmed Composer for The Rings Of Power Amazon Series

While re-watching this, my wife made the astute remark of how similar Howard Shore's composition was to Richard Wagner's works. (original creator of the concept - circa 1880) Now listening to the two composers side by side, it could not be more apparent.

1880 is pretty late for Wagner: around the time of Parsifal, which does not really exhibit the leitmotiv technique. Like, sure, there are a lot of motives, but you'd be hard press to associate them with anything too specific in the drama.

I'm currently doing a piece for Fellowship of Fans' site about the possible use of the leitmotiv technique for the show, and one of my point is a more thorough understanding of the leitmotif technique.

Leitmotives don't mean things, leitmotives are associated with things.

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