The score for each episode took four days to record, using up to 90-piece orchestras at Abbey Road Studios and AIR Studios in London as well as a 40-person choir at Synchron Stage in Vienna. McCreary used different approaches for the different groups in the series: the music for the Elves features "etheral voices" and choir, the Dwarven music has "deep male vocals", the Harfoots have music based in natural sounds, and the harmonic language for Númenor has Middle Eastern influences. He did note that his music would reflect the series' depiction of "these societies at their peak" compared to Shore's music for the Third Age which had "a wistfulness and a melancholy". He wanted to honor Shore's musical legacy and hoped to create a "continuity of concept" between the series and films, with the 15 new themes he wrote for the season being added to the "pantheon of memorable melodies" that Shore had written. Each themes had two sections, an introduction and the development of that theme. He spent nearly two months writing new musical themes based on the scripts, which he compared to that of writing a symphony, and then used those to compose nine hours of music for the first season over eight months. McCreary began working on the series in July 2021, and said it was a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to work on such an ambitious score with the creative freedom that he wanted. My hope is that if anyone watches our show and then watches the Peter Jackson films, there will be a continuity of concept." It is not sad and forlorn, it’s powerful. Here we see the might of Khazad-dûm, one of the mightiest cities in all of Tolkien’s work, and we see it at its peak. In the ‘Hobbit’ films, the dwarfs were a people in diaspora, lost and hoping to retrieve their homeland. So, yes, there’s a connection, but it doesn’t sound the same. "In our show, we are seeing these societies at their peak. The Head of Music at Amazon Studios, Bob Bowen, opined that both musicians have "deep understanding of the Tolkien legendarium". McCreary said the main theme was created independently of the score, but he felt the two "fit together so beautifully". Their hiring was officially announced in July 2022, with McCreary composing the score and Shore writing the main title theme. A year later, Shore was confirmed to be in talks for the series, when composer Bear McCreary was reported to be involved as well. He was said to be interested in developing musical themes but not necessarily composing the entire score. Howard Shore, the composer for the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films, was reported to be in discussions with Amazon about working on the series in September 2020. McCreary, about the Lord of the Rings films and its main inspiration that drew him to work in the series. I watched those films over and over and over." They were, in a way, at the nexus of my childhood and adulthood, the last films that took me away as a child. Tolkien books, of the legendarium, the mythology and the Peter Jackson films. Additional soundtrack albums featuring the full score for each episode will be released after the episode premieres. The physical soundtrack will be marketed by Mondo and is set for release on CD (October 14) and vinyl (January 13, 2023). It was led by two singles from McCreary's score – "Galadriel" and "Sauron" – released exclusively on Amazon Music on July 21. Season 1: Amazon Original Series Soundtrack was released on all major streaming services on August 19, 2022, two weeks prior to the official premiere. Recording involved a 90-piece orchestra and 40-member vocal choir working in London, Vienna, and Los Angeles. The score includes various musical styles and fictional languages, created by author J. McCreary wrote nearly 15 new themes, inspired by Shore's earlier work. The original soundtrack to the Amazon Prime Video television series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power features a musical score composed by Bear McCreary and a main title theme composed by Howard Shore, who previously scored the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film series.
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