Music
This page is for LOTR music and other related music. If you see anything not here, let me know. Enjoy!
Howard Shore orchestra's instruments:
- Woodwinds: 3 flutes (1st and 2nd doubling on alto flutes, 2nd doubling on piccolo, 3rd doubling on piccolo and optionally on Irish whistle...
- Brass: 5 horns in F, 4 trumpets in B-flat (doubling on rotary valve), 3 trombones, tuba
- Percussion: timpani, chimes, medium and large tamtams, 5 suspended gongs, suspended cymbals: large and antique...
- Keyboard: piano (doubling on celesta)
- Strings: 2 harps, violins I and II, violas, violoncellos, double basses
- Other: musette, hammered dulcimer, cimbalom, nylon strings guitar
- Ethnic and exotic instruments: fiddle, double fiddle, anvil, accordion, Celtic harp, chains on piano wire, Hardanger fiddle, mandolin...
Read more about how LOTR's amazingly epic and beautiful music was created!
More links:
Music Themes in The Lord of the ringsArticle on LOTR music
Profession article on LOTR music
LOTR sheet music
Creating the Lord of the Rings Symphony: A Composer's Journey Through Middle-Earth
The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films