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Wind chimes part 2

What is interesting about the theme which kicks off WC2 is the strong harmonic link with 'Flying Start', and this is reinforced on the video when the theme appears later by having the computer generated cafe table floating across the screen. The third phrase refutes this (at least to my cloth ears- maybe it doesn't), and the fourth recapitulates on the first two.

02:31   First note
02:32   Flying Start 1
02:41   -Flying Start 1
        +Synth FS Twiddle
02:43   -Synth FS Twiddle
        +Flying Start 2
02:53   -Flying Start 2
        +Synth FS Twiddle
02:54   -Synth FS Twiddle
        +FS Refutation
03:02   -FS Refutation
        +Synth FS Twiddle
03:04   -Synth FS Twiddle
        +Flying Start 4
03:13   -Flying Start 4
        +Voices
03:15   -Voices
        +WC Theme 3a
        +Synth 'chant' and handclap
03:20   -WC Theme 3a
        +WC Theme 3b
03:26   -WC Theme 3b
        +WC Theme 3c
03:32   -WC Theme 3c
        +WC Theme 3d
03:38   -WC Theme 3d
        +WC Theme 1a
03:50   -WC Theme 1a
        +WC Theme 1c
04:02   -WC Theme 1c
        -Synth 'chant' and handclap
        +WC Theme 4
        +WC Theme 5 (Int. Background)
04:19   -WC Theme 4
        +WC Theme 3a (Voices)
04:26   Repeat WC Theme 3a (Voices)
04:34   -WC Theme 3a (Voices)
        WC Theme 5 assumes importance
04:46   -WC Theme 5
        +Dissonant Theme 1
04:54   Repeat Dissonant Theme 1
05:03   Repeat Dissonant Theme 1
05:12   Repeat Dissonant Theme 1
05:20   -Dissonant Theme 1
        +Dissonant Theme 2
05:29   -Dissonant Theme 2
        +Dissonant Theme 3
05:38   -Dissonant Theme 3
        +Dissonant Theme 1
05:46   Repeat Dissonant Theme 1
05:55   -Dissonant Theme 1
        +Synth 'chant' (X4)
06:12   -Synth 'chant'
        +WC Theme 6a
06:14   -WC Theme 6a
        +WC Theme 6b
06:17   Repeat WC Theme 6a
        +WC Theme 1a (background)
06:19   Repeat WC Theme 6a
06:21   Repeat WC Theme 6a
06:23   Repeat WC Theme 6a
06:25   Repeat WC Theme 6a
        -WC Theme 1a (background)
06:27   -WC Theme 6a
        +WC Theme 6c
06:32   -WC Theme 6c
        +Synth 'chant' (X4)
06:49   -Synth 'chant'
        +WC Theme 7 (in four parts)
06:58   Repeat WC Theme 7
07:07   -WC Theme 7
        +Bridge (four bars)
07:11   Repeat Bridge
07:15   -Bridge
        +WC Theme 6 (as above)
07:35   -WC Theme 6
        +Tubular Bells Riff 1
        +Short Phrase
07:44   -Tubular Bells Riff 1
        Short Phrase assumes importance
07:52   -Short Phrase
        +Guitar solo
08:10   -Guitar solo
        +Dissonant Theme 1
08:19   Repeat Dissonant Theme 1
08:27   -Dissonant Theme 1
        +Dissonant Theme 2
08:34   Dissonant Theme 2 to coda
08:45   -Dissonant Theme 2
        +Crashing Waves Theme
09:14   -Crashing Waves Theme
        +WC Theme 5
10:09   -WC Theme 5
        +Interruption 1
10:20   -Interruption 1
        +WC Theme 5
10:41   -WC Theme 5
        +Interruption 2
10:52   -Interruption 2
        +WC Theme 5
11:25   -WC Theme 5
11:26   Momentary Burst
11:27   +WC Theme 1a
        +WC Theme 5 (background)
11:38   -WC Theme 1a
        +WC Theme 1b (truncated)
11:41   WC Theme 5 assumes importance
11:44   -WC Theme 1b
        -WC Theme 5
11:45   +Twiddly Bit
11:50   -Twiddly Bit
11:51   +Flying Start 1
12:00   -Flying Start 1
        +Flying Start 2
12:09   -Flying Start 2
        +FS Synth Twiddle
12:11   -FS Synth Twiddle
        +FS Refutation
12:18   -FS Refutation
12:20   +Flying Start 4
12:30   -Flying Start 4
        +Flying Connection
12:50   -Flying Connection
        +WC Theme 5
12:54   -WC Theme 5
        +Flying Start 1
13:03   -Flying Start 1
        +FS QE2 Twiddle
13:05   -FS QE2 Twiddle
        +Flying Start 2
13:14   -Flying Start 2
        +FS QE2 Twiddle
13:15   -FS QE2 Twiddle
        +FS Refutation
13:24   -FS Refutation
        +Flying Start 4
13:34   -Flying Start 4
        +WC Theme 4
13:54   -WC Theme4
13:55   +WC Theme 5
14:07   -WC Theme 5
        +WC Theme 4
14:27   Repeat WC Theme 4
14:48   +WC Theme 1a (background)
14:58   -WC Theme 1a (background)
15:03   Enhanced Theme 4
15:24   -Theme 4
        +WC Theme 8
15:42   -WC Theme 8
        +WC Theme 5
15:59   +WC Theme 8
16:16   Enhancement to WC Theme 8
16:51   -WC Theme 8
        -WC Theme 5
        +Climax
17:09   -Climax
        +WC Theme 4
17:26   -WC Theme 4
        +WC Theme 6a (repeated)
17:43   -WC Theme 6
        +Tubular Bells Riff 2
        +WC Theme 1a
17:53   -WC Theme 1a
        +WC Theme 1b
18:01   +WC Theme 2a
        Single vocal ('Past'?)
        Tubular Bells Riff 2 ascends
18:05   -WC Theme 2a
        +WC Theme 2b
        Tubular Bells Riff 2 descends
18:09   -WC Theme 2b
        +WC Theme 2a
        Tubular Bells Riff 2 doubles
18:14   -WC Theme 2a
        +WC Theme 2b
        Tubular Bells Riff 2 enhanced
18:19   -WC Theme 2b
        +WC Theme 1a
        Tubular Bells Riff 2 subdued
18:27   -WC Theme 1a
        +WC Theme 1b
18:31   -Tubular Bells Riff 2
        -WC Theme 1b
18:32   +Momentary Burst
18:36   -Momentary Burst
18:37   +When The Night's On Fire
19:08   -When The Night's On Fire
        +WC Theme 4
19:24   -WC Theme 4
        +WC Theme 3a (Voices)
19:38   -WC Theme 3a (Voices)
        +Guitar Solo
20:11   -Guitar Solo
        +WC Theme 4
20:26   -WC Theme 4
        +WC Theme 3a (Voices)
        +WC Theme 5 (background)
20:42   -WC Theme 3a (Voices)
        -WC Theme 5 (background)
        +Xylophone Tune
21:09   -Xylophone Tune
        +Windy Synth Background
21:23   +WC Theme 1a
21:35   Climax
        -Windy Synth Background
        -WC Theme 1a
21:40   Chimes
21:46   Silence

The Tubular Bells riffs both feature on Amarok (Africa 2- Bobby Shafto bit), but the second is interesting as it clearly shows how the TB2 bass riff came about.

Created: 11 September, 2004 - Last changed: 11 September, 2004 - Comments (0)