Victoria : The 'Hallelujah' singing in the opening credits and at intervals…
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I get that but I enjoy it.
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I love it
"You're going to need a bigger boat"
"You're going to need a bigger boat"
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I find it beautiful.
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I find it creepy as welldoesn't seem to match the tone of the show.
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The music emphasizes Victoria divinely ordained as queen as in the Divine Right of Kings. The coronation had a religious aspect to emphasize that right as well, being held in Westminster Abbey. The Archbishop of Canterbury placed the crown on Victoria's head.
The music is very effective for its purpose.
I could be a morning person if morning happened at noon.
The music is very effective for its purpose.
I could be a morning person if morning happened at noon.
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^ exactly, good explanation. I like the music too, esp. at the beginning with the 3 phases of Victoria: from girl to apprentice Queen to a mature and regal Monarch.
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Great explanation. I was wondering if that particular music was composed for the show, or if it is old enough that it might have been played at the coronation of Elizabeth I?
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I Googled:
"The theme tune, Alleluia, and incidental music for the first episodes of the series were composed by Martin Phipps, the musician who also recently worked on BBC1 shows War and Peace and Peaky Blinders.
Phipps was shown an early version of episode one of Victoria and instantly fell in love with the drama, changing his holiday plans to get to work on the composition, executive producer Dan McCulloch tells RadioTimes.com
Martin loved the character. Particularly her tenacity, her humanity and youth. He wanted to score something that literally came from the heart, says McCulloch.
In fact, adds, in some of the scenes "you can hear a beat thats a lot like Victorias heart thumping away.
The singing was performed by the classical choral ensemble The Medieval Baebes, who recorded the theme tune (which re-occurs in various motifs as incidental music) following a creative collaboration with Phipps in his East London studio.
But Victoria-watchers may detect a slight difference to the sound in later episodes. That's because Phipps later handed the conductors baton to Ruth Barrett. And as McCulloch notes, the incidental music will have a different feel
Youll see as Victorias life moves on so does the score. Albert has his own theme"
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-09-25/the-story-behind-the-victoria-theme-tune
"The theme tune, Alleluia, and incidental music for the first episodes of the series were composed by Martin Phipps, the musician who also recently worked on BBC1 shows War and Peace and Peaky Blinders.
Phipps was shown an early version of episode one of Victoria and instantly fell in love with the drama, changing his holiday plans to get to work on the composition, executive producer Dan McCulloch tells RadioTimes.com
Martin loved the character. Particularly her tenacity, her humanity and youth. He wanted to score something that literally came from the heart, says McCulloch.
In fact, adds, in some of the scenes "you can hear a beat thats a lot like Victorias heart thumping away.
The singing was performed by the classical choral ensemble The Medieval Baebes, who recorded the theme tune (which re-occurs in various motifs as incidental music) following a creative collaboration with Phipps in his East London studio.
But Victoria-watchers may detect a slight difference to the sound in later episodes. That's because Phipps later handed the conductors baton to Ruth Barrett. And as McCulloch notes, the incidental music will have a different feel
Youll see as Victorias life moves on so does the score. Albert has his own theme"
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-09-25/the-story-behind-the-victoria-theme-tune
The 'Hallelujah' singing in the opening credits and at intervals…