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Film / TV track Ocean Dawn by composer Rodney Newton

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Context: This short piece comes from the first of three suites called Seascapes written for the EMU Production Music Library (now defunct) which are still in current use by television companies worldwide. We see first light appear, then the sun rises in splendour over the ocean above which seabirds wheel in the clear morning air.
Posted: 31/07/2007
Produced: 01/05/1994
Moods: Atmospheric, Epic, Dramatic
Genres: Orchestral
Tempo: Slow
Credits: I conduct the London Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra. The three suites were all recorded at The Snake Ranch studio in London and the producers were Michael English and Andy Brown (who also contracted the musicians).
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Composers: Olivia Dixon loves this track!Leigh Phillips loves this track!Corin Buckeridge loves this track!Amir Khalaf loves this track!Mick Kiely loves this track!Johan van der Voet loves this track!Jacob Cartwright loves this track!Geraint Hughes loves this track!Jack Chapple loves this track!Jamie Serafi loves this track!Andy Quin loves this track!Ashley Paul Morrison loves this track!Mark Slater loves this track!Chris Salt loves this track!
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Overwhelms with the joy of nature at its most beautiful. I can hear it coming alive. Wonderful music.

Composer Olivia Dixon
31.07.07 21:323 years 1 months 8 days 9 hours 3 mins

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A delightful piece.

Member Helen Lovett
01.08.07 09:463 years 1 months 7 days 20 hours 49 mins

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A beautiful piece that's sensitively orchestrated and which develops the central material in a thoughtful manner with interesting harmonic progressions and orchestral colours. Really smashing stuff!

Composer Leigh Phillips
02.08.07 09:243 years 1 months 6 days 21 hours 11 mins

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Beuatiful textures and colours abound - this is a lesson for us all!

Composer Corin Buckeridge
03.08.07 12:073 years 1 months 5 days 18 hours 28 mins

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This is about as good as it gets - a truly beautiful piece.

Member Steve Molesworth
03.08.07 18:253 years 1 months 5 days 12 hours 10 mins

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i really like the strings melody playing exactly on 1:58..it's a great score!

Composer Amir Khalaf
05.08.07 18:303 years 1 months 3 days 12 hours 5 mins

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What beauty. This is a great wealth of learning for me.
The orchestra used to it's potential. Very lovely.

Composer Mick Kiely
06.08.07 23:093 years 1 months 2 days 7 hours 26 mins

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Very well done indeed.

Composer Johan van der Voet
09.08.07 12:263 years 1 months 18 hours 9 mins

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Your music is very inspiring - some of the best I've found on this network and I'm sure it benefits from your talents. I've actually started listening to your work now to help focus my winds writing, as I've always found them the most difficult to get right.

Member Jonny Mantle
12.08.07 15:473 years 27 days 14 hours 48 mins

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This tugs and pulls at my emotions like sorcery. An amazing development of theme using the orchestra in its entirety. This has made my day.

Composer Jacob Cartwright
17.08.07 22:003 years 22 days 8 hours 35 mins

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Absolutely splendid and evocative orchestration, loved it.

Composer Geraint Hughes
28.08.07 12:033 years 11 days 18 hours 32 mins

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Fantastic orchestration - great use of winds, particularly the Williams-esque flutes with their trill major triads at the beginning of the piece. Loved the way the harp coloured the piece also. The piece seems to flow very naturally with intelligent motivic development. I find the string statement at 1:49 particularly brilliant. A great piece, and performed well!

Composer Jack Chapple
31.08.07 12:083 years 8 days 18 hours 27 mins

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This piece is very reminiscent of the Planet Earth documentarys. I think George Fenton would be very proud of you!

Composer Jamie Serafi
04.09.07 21:083 years 4 days 9 hours 27 mins

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There is little more I can add to what has already been said about this piece. Orchestral writing of the very highest order with wonderful, evocative themes. Great stuff!

Composer Andy Quin
05.09.07 22:023 years 3 days 8 hours 33 mins

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Rodney, what can I say? Wonderful music - something to aim for as I move from "emerging" to "established"!

Composer Ashley Paul Morrison
20.09.07 11:503 years 18 days 18 hours 45 mins

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All of Rodney's work displays a breadth of musical vision that unmistakeably distinguishes the truly gifted from the aspiring.

Composer Mark Slater
15.11.07 21:282 years 9 months 23 days 9 hours 7 mins

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Great to hear orchestral music like this - great textures and themes, wonderful orchestration - stunning!

Composer Chris Salt
18.11.07 10:012 years 9 months 20 days 20 hours 34 mins

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What a wonderful piece of music! I particularly enjoyed the Debussy-esque orchestration and tone colours. An Inspiration.

Member Richard Pryn
14.03.08 10:342 years 5 months 25 days 20 hours 1 mins

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As a newbie, it is difficult to write about this without the fear of sounding almost condescending - who am I and does my opinion really count? Well, it does to me and this I believe is lyrically and harmonically phenomenal. I can't stop listening to it. I love this genre of music that not only works brilliantly with the visuals, but can stand up as music in its own right. So much of what is written these days for screen seems devoid of any meaning once you separate it from the visual context. Great writing.

Member Leslie Quarcoopome
10.07.09 00:261 years 1 months 30 days 6 hours 9 mins

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