Illuminations: Reflections of Earth - original handwritten score

[@bobbyspina2005]

Brings absolute tears to my eyes. Both my parents were cast members, and had a lot of block-out dates for the parks. More often than not, Epcot was almost always available cause it was considered the least popular park. They would get my sister and I in and we would just about always stay and see this show. So many memories. Thank you for this!

[@lyleorr9832]

Who downvotes this? Honestly - one of the most heart pounding, inspirational pieces of music I have ever heard. Was so sad to see it leave EPCOT.

[@1CATALDO]

Ditto ! We will sincerely miss seeing Reflections at EPCOT ☹️

[@andrew23456able]

dude i have been looking for this FOR YEARS

[@TheRailwayDrone]

I marched Cadets when we played this in 2000.

[@Cash757]

Thank you, you've literally just made my day. I've been trying to find the score since about 2000 when I first listened to it in Epcot. Also I got a 320kbps mp3 if you want it, I have the original Soundtrack somewhere and carry HD versions of Reflections of Earth & Tapestry of Nations everywhere I go.

[@jamesonrichards5105]

Thank you so much for this. I've always considered this my favorite piece of all time ever since childhood.

[@lhenn_]

Such an underrated score of music! Love it since I've heard it being part of the Night of the Proms 2006 Ouverture in Antwerpen. Thank you for sharing this masterpiece and the manuscripts! I love the realization of the ~african part (3:16➝) - so much play with imagination!

[@RobBaldridge]

Fantastic! Thank you for linking the score. I've always been a huge fan of music from Disney's parks. It's so rare to see original manuscripts for anything like this, so this is a real gem.

[@lucascoxthewheeloffortunef6949]

Between 2000-2005, this should've been the background music for ABC Split-Credits goin' into the local news.

[@jaiofficialmusic]

Thanks so much for posting this! This is like the golden treasure for all music composers and analysts who are also Disney fans. I'm gonna start studying lol.

[@dkostner]

Fantastic! I've always loved this score and the attendant fireworks. What a marvelous thing to be able to study the manuscript. Thank you!

[@rwinger2481]

This is awesome! I can tell the synthesizer parts are not written into the score pads/orchestration when it was recorded by a live orchestra. Often, composers tell the copyists like Joann Kane Music not to copy pre-recorded synthesizer tracks. In that sense, it would not be necessary to write the synth parts onto the sheet music when you have it done in your home studio.

[@KrystofDreamJourney]

Yes, that’s correct. Almost All percussion was recorded prior to strings/ ww/ brass session. Only timpani and perhaps few other instruments were added (tambourine) during session. Snare was already pre- recorded, so were cymbals, piatti, gran cassa, all auxiliary perc., mallets, synths, guitars, sound effects, swooshes, MIDI percussion (all those “punches” to beef up accentuation are usually done electronically). Speaking of Disney (I am a pianist/composer here) - in the same manner music for Fantasmic was also recorded. I played for 7 years Tarzan Rocks! show at the Animal Kingdom (1999-2006). We had a multi-track original soundtrack with LSO separated with all effects, all instruments on separate tracks for surround sound. We also had a full score - same exact story : only ww/brass/timpani/stags were notated in the score (from JoAnn Kane).

[@markbrown4039]

Also the Emmy Award-winning theme to ABC News' marathon "ABC 2000" broadcast on New Year's Eve 1999-2000.

[@Sam4G0d]

Wow!

[@HowdIEvenGetHere]

Wow. Just wow

[@jasobres]

I always thought the last section was 7/4. I knew it was in seven, but now I know it's actually 7/8 with the eight note getting the beat.

[@PyrrhianNerd]

dislike is from Universal

[@DigitalAndInnovation]

Wait- he wrote this pen and paper???!

[@stevepreskitt283]

Lots and lots of production scores/parts are handwritten, as is a lot of theatrical music. Nowadays, you see more typeset stuff because we have packages like Finale and Sibelius that make it cheap to do, but there's still plenty of stuff that's handwritten because it's fast and easy for the composer/arranger/copyists, and doesn't have to look nice - it just has to be (mostly) legible, and in some conductor scores I've seen the beats don't even line up right in the measures across parts. :-D Almost all of the parts I've played in decades of being in pit orchestras were handwritten, so those are actually easier for me to read now than typeset parts because I'm so used to it. You'll also find a lot of really high-end film work is handwritten as well (like a LOT of the original John Williams recording scores).

[@aniolelseer7199]

@@stevepreskitt283 Finale, sadly, is a thing of the past. Dorico is being used. :)

[@Abdillahi504]

lock the taskbar

[@andrew23456able]

i just realized. WHAT