Score for Zimmer/Shore compositions

[Torry]

[code][/code]Hi all

I'm looking for the score (sheet music) to study Howard shore's music to LOTR and Zimmers music to Gladiator. Does anyone know where I can buy/download this? I'm looking for the full orchestra score.

Thanks to any replies

[Andy1044]

Not going to happen. At the most, you'll be able to find concert suites reduced for band or smaller orchestra. The only way you'll be able to find the original score is to pay lots of money to go to the archives of the movie studios involved and look at the scores there. Very rarely do we get any releases of orchestral sheet music from the scores. The Hal Leonard John Williams scores are a very rare instance indeed.

You might try googling around and seeing if anyone has done their own transcriptions (or try it yourself).

[Musicformedia]

Yea I looked into John Williams score's myself for my dissertation - you need to go to the archive where the original is stored, and can't copy anything, and have to be supervised for the whole thing. Some people do adaptations or notations of some of them, but the originals are nearly always not able to be bought

[Andy1044]

Actually, you can copy them, as long as you bring the biggest sheets of staff paper you can find, and you can write faster than anyone else in the world. Only photocopying of them is illegal.