A Research On John Williams's Composition Techniques

As one of American most prestigious master for film music,John Williams's works are of great momentum as well as sensitivity,which demonstrate his exquisite creation method and unique orchestrate application.Through music creation career as long as over 60 years,he has displayed to the world what the unfailing film music is and make numerous audience feel the special charm of film music,making indelible contributions to the popularization and development of film music.The representative works for film music are Jurassic Park,Saving Private Ryan,Star Wars,Schindler's list and Harry Potter.This paper mainly analyze his composition methods on film music.Through characteristics researches on music structure,harmonic application,texture and polyphony techniques,it will summarize creation methods and orchestrate application for John William's film music and offer basic theoretical foundations for deeply studying this excellent composer.This paper will be divided into five chapters in total.The first chapter is introduction.It mainly includes three parts.In the first part,it is related research status and significance;The second part is main research contents and methods;The third part is several general situations on his film music careers.The second chapter is his biography and his musical style.In the third chapter,it mainly analyzes composition methods of his film music,including musical structure,harmony,texture and polyphony.The fourth chapter will explore values and influence of his film music.In the final chapter,it will summarize characteristics of his film musics.The composition methods and creation ideas applied in his film music fully reflects his inheritance and development on orchestral music and embody his own musical style characteristics.In spite of his numerous film music works,researches on his film music career and creation methods are still in the initial stage.Studying his musical creation techniques is of necessity to the later researches in this field.Researches on his creation achievements will offer powerful theoretical basis to film musical creation.The purpose of this paper is to flourish and develop film musical creation.