The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey / Original Soundtrack / Composed By: Howard Shore / CD / Made in the EU

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The music of The Hobbit film series is composed and produced by Howard Shore, who scored all three The Lord of the Rings films, to which The Hobbit trilogy is a prequel. The score continues the style of The Lord of the Rings score, and utilizes a vast ensemble, multiple musical forms and styles, a large number of leitmotives and various unusual instruments, adding to Shore's overarching music of the Middle-earth films.

Shore composed over nine hours of music, featuring 65 new musical themes and reprising 50 themes from the Lord of the Rings. Shore sketched and orchestrated the music for an immense ensemble consisting of a large symphony orchestra, additional stage "bands" (featuring various non-orchestral instruments), multiple choirs and several vocal soloists.

While not quite as critically successful as his Lord of the Rings compositions, Shore's score remained a financial success, peaking in the top ten album charts in multiple countries, and garnered various award nominations, and his setting of the "Misty Mountains" tune becoming very popular. The score has since been performed as a Symphonic piece in four movements for orchestra and soloist. The score and its production were the subject of an hour-long documentary film created for the behind-the-scenes features of The Desolation of Smaug, and is to be featured in a dedicated book by the musicologist Doug Adams, set to be completed in late 2017.

With these three scores added to the music of The Lord of the Rings film series, Howard Shore has composed over 160 leitmotifs for the Middle Earth films, creating by far the largest collection of themes in the history of cinema and one of the biggest collections for any cycle of musical compositions.

The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a 2 disc album that features original score by Academy Award winner Howard Shore recorded at famed Abbey Road Studios by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Additionally it includes an original song, Song of the Lonely Mountain, written and performed by Neil Finn (Crowded House).

One of today's most respected, honored, and active composers and music conductors, Howard Shore previously worked with director Peter Jackson on The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, which stands as his most towering achievement to date. He won three Academy Awards for his music for those films.

• Manufacturer: ‎ Watertower Music
• Original Release Date: ‎ 2012
• Date First Available: ‎ October 10, 2012
• Label: ‎ Watertower Music

Tracklist:

CD 1:

1.1 My Dear Frodo

1.2 Old Friends

1.3 An Unexpected Party

1.4 Axe or Sword?

1.5 Misty Mountains

1.6 The Adventure Begins

1.7 The World Is Ahead

1.8 An Ancient Enemy

1.9 Radagast the Brown

1.10 Roast Mutton

1.11 A Troll-Hoard

1.12 The Hill of Sorcery

1.13 Warg-Scouts

CD 2:

2.1 The Hidden Valley

2.2 Moon Runes

2.3 The Defiler

2.4 The White Council

2.5 Over Hill

2.6 A Thunder Battle

2.7 Under Hill

2.8 Riddles in the Dark

2.9 Brass Buttons

2.10 Out of the Frying Pan

2.11 A Good Omen

2.12 Song of the Lonely Mountain

2.13 Dreaming of Bag End