Best composer match-ups?

If no score was ever co-composed again then I would be very happy indeed.

Agree!

Can you imagine two giants of the stature of John Williams and Ennio Morricone co-composing?

Agreed 110%

-Erik-

Having two composers work on one score doesn't necessarily make it twice as good, so I too agree with James.



Don't think that would work at all IMO. You'd get one mess of a score, I'd rather just listen to a Michael Giacchino score composed by him and him alone.

I think there's always a chance of being succesful in collaborating. Composers writing their own cues, while collaborating, works best in most cases. Last of the Mohicans.... Sometimes it doesn't work because they interfer too much with eachothers style and such. If you really want two composer to work on the entire score, through every cue, they must know eachother very well. Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil have been doing fantastic scores together, sometimes with Tykwer. But that's just because they all been together for so long.

I'm not with those who are against it.

And I would rather just listen to a Marco Beltrami score.

I agree with Joep's comments - there's always a chance that there will be a successful score from a collaborative effort. But I would imagine that there needs to be clear "rules" set out at the outset that dictate who does what.

I liked what came out of the collaboration on Batman Begins. And it's difficult to predict whether anything composed by a single composer would have been any better. The Herrmann/Newman collaboration on The Egyptian is usually cited as a partnership that worked, but again, it seems that there were clear ideas on who did what. Part of the success was then how to join the two parts to a cohesive whole. Am I right in remembering that there wasn't that much "collaboration" between Herrmann or Newman in terms of melding the music into specific cues? It was more a case of writing separately for specific characters, situations and then bringing it all together at the end?

You cannae change the laws of physics!

There are rare instances where a multi-composer score works... Chicken Run and Shrek are two excellent examples but both composers has such similar styles therefore it worked. Conflicting styles like a Zimmer and Newton Howard BATMAN BEGINS score where one composing style dominated the other did not work so well because Newton Howard was almost no where to be found. I think that if Newton Howard had the opportunity to compose the score himself you most likely would have had a more traditional sounding score that would have been the polar opposite to what Zimmer spat out.

-Erik-

I think good can come of it, but it's no coincidence that some of the better collaboration scores have come of the good MV/RC graduates. These are people who are used to working together, after all.

Hehe, I agree, it probably was Powell. There's not really much stuff by Gregspn-Williams that I'd miss if it weren't there. There's that whole post about who did what in the Powell topic somewhere if you're interested.

I think JAMES NEWTON HOWARD is much more Zimmer-influenced than some people might think he is.

Well, I have heard that often his working technique is very similar to Zimmer, with all the co-composers and so on. He just doesn't credit them the way Zimmer does. I don't know how much truth there is in that.

That, the troop thingy (remember the Alex incident over scorereviews for instance?) and that his music during the last 5 years has been too Zimmer influenced in some cases and in projects where Zimmer had nothing to do with. Maybe people should stop accusing Zimmer of overshadowing JNH in Batman Begins? I don't know, maybe JNH actually wrote stuff that IS in the movie and score cd but in the end sound like Zimmer too?

Yeah, I agree! It's kinda hard to tell because JNH uses synths in scores as well (can't remember if he did in those before Batman Begins...). But there were some of the portions of the score in tracks like "Barbastella", "Tadarida", "Antrozous" and "Corynorhinus" that definitely sounded like JNH's style to me, including the strings. That's only my opinion though

Thanks! Going to listen to it now