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Michael Giacchino

1032460_2_2 — 2024-02-06 23:32:56 UTC

Michael Giacchino is a film composer who inspires me to develop my theme writing. Giacchino's motivic writing encourages me to make my compositions more cohesive through leitmotifs. Giacchino's work in Pixar's "Up" demonstrates his aptitude for melodic development, inspiring me to create a sense of continuity in my music.

Jacob Collier

1032460_2_2 — 2024-02-06 23:34:19 UTC

Jacob Collier is a significant creative influence of mine due to his frequent experimentation with harmony. He has a distinctive compositional style, utilizing techniques such as negative harmony, reharmonization and layering. Collier's harmony and his ability to modulate to harmonically distant keys inspire me to deepen my knowledge of music theory.

Gabriel Detosil

1032460_2_2 — 2024-02-06 23:34:24 UTC

Stevie Wonder

1032460_2_2 — 2024-02-06 23:35:38 UTC

Collier has cited Stevie Wonder as a "major" influence on his music (Hulm, 2023), enabling him to experiment with chromaticism alongside jazz harmonic movements. Wonder's song "Sir Duke" (1977) substitutes a chord with a non-diatonic one, resulting in a chromatic bassline. Such compositional choices inspire Collier to use intricate harmony and extend beyond typical diatonic chord progressions.

Bernard Hermann

1032460_2_2 — 2024-02-06 23:37:49 UTC

Bernard Hermann is a film composer known for his exceptional orchestral writing and mastery of writing for strings. Giacchino says Hermann's work in The Twilight Zone in 1959 was a "massive inspiration" to him (Los Angeles Times, 2010). Hermann's idiomatic writing and orchestral layering undoubtedly influenced Giacchino's film scores.

Claude Debussy

1032460_2_2 — 2024-02-06 23:47:05 UTC

Giacchino states that Debussy is one of his creative influences when writing music (Yellowbrick, 2023). Debussy's expressive diatonic and chromatic harmonies inspired Giacchino to write emotionally compelling music. The impressionist composer envisioned music that revolved around "the most "human" expression of lived experience". (Whittall, A. (2011). Debussy's expressive compositional influences are much evident in Giacchino's film scores.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

1032460_2_2 — 2024-02-06 23:48:34 UTC

Giacchino's contemporary classical-styled pieces are also reminiscent of Beethoven's symphonic writing (Yellowbrick, 2023). Beethoven's thematic writing significantly influenced Giacchino to write memorable pieces. Beethoven's compositional style defied classical-era rules to convey complex emotions (March, D. 2013), influencing Giacchino to compose with techniques that made classical music effective in expressing emotions.

Herbie Hancock

1032460_2_2 — 2024-02-06 23:49:29 UTC

Renowned jazz musician Herbie Hancock has a profound influence on the gifted harmonist. With Hancock's teachings, Collier understood the importance of life experience in shaping his harmonic choices (WIRED, 2018). Hancock may have encouraged Collier to view music theory as a guide rather than a limiting framework, allowing Collier to innovate from tradition.

References

1032460_2_2 — 2024-02-07 00:55:32 UTC

Hulm, P. (2023, July 9). Peter Hulm. https://global-geneva.com/the-accidental-superstar/#:~:text=Asked%20three%20years%20ago%20for

Maddala, V. (2022, June 6). Kendrick Lamar\’s \"United in Grief\" music Theory explained. Stereogum. https://www.stereogum.com/2188951/a-composer-breaks-down-the-music-theory-behind-kendrick-lamars-united-in-grief/columns/in-theory/

March, D. (2013). Barry, Beethoven and “beethoven”: immortality and influence. Tempo, 67(263), 19–32. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298212001039

Oscar influences: Michael Giacchino was a crazed 9-year-old “Star Wars” geek - Los Angeles Times. (2010, February 22). Los Angeles Times. https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/the-big-picture/story/2010-02-22/oscar-influences-michael-giacchino-was-a-crazed-9-year-old-star-wars-geek

Robinson, C., PhD. (2018, November 13). Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly: Beyond hip hop, beyond genre. Medium. https://medium.com/@CRMusicWriter/kendrick-lamars-to-pimp-a-butterfly-beyond-hip-hop-beyond-genre-4e74b3831dfc

VICE News. (2020, September 15). Here’s what YouTube star Jacob Collier is currently obsessed with [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C7rkY3MCZQ

Vox. (2019, July 5). Jacob Collier deconstructs a Stevie Wonder classic [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZP6nogQYPg

Whittall, A. (2011). [Review of Erik Satie; Debussy, by M. E. Davis & D. J. Code]. Music & Letters, 92(4), 667–669. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41418790

WIRED. (2018, January 8). Musician Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty ft. Jacob Collier & Herbie Hancock | WIRED [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRkgK4jfi6M

Yellowbrick. (2023, August 9). The musical Genius of Michael Giacchino: Composer’s Journey. Yellowbrick. https://www.yellowbrick.co/blog/music/exploring-the-musical-genius-of-michael-giacchino-a-composers-journey#:~:text=He%20has%20cited%20classical%20composers

Kendrick Lamar

1032460_2_2 — 2024-02-07 06:56:01 UTC

Lamar's innovative approach to implementing jazz influences into a mainstream space inspired Collier (VICE News, 2020). Lamar's album "To Pimp a Butterfly" was culturally significant due to its thought-provoking socio-political commentary (Maddala, 2022). Hence, Lamar's music prompted Collier to use his technical skills to imbue greater depth and emotion in his music.