DeBlois on the composition of the title theme When I heard it, I remember thinking, ‘Wow.’ John then incorporated that into the tease and then finally the full-blown, majestic Hidden World theme. Jónsi spent the day working with layers of his own voice. When we first enter that space it’s all very mysterious and forbidding. ![]() Jónsi was in town, so John set him up with a laptop and a microphone and had him focus on the Hidden World. He also recorded the original song "Together From Afar". ![]() He made use of multiple instruments such as Celtic harp, bodhrán frame drum, uilleann pipes, traditional Scottish bagpipes, and backing vocals which were provided by Jónsi (who provided for the music of How to Train Your Dragon 2). He produced a varied soundscape, including playful sounds for dragon romps, orchestral sounds for the battle sequences, string march for the Vikings' exodus, a celebratory song ("Together From Afar") in the conclusion, as well as unusual instrumental colors to convey the ancient world. He also brought his earlier themes, and also reproduced them to create newer versions and integrate it in the film, as "if he had kept using material that everybody knew all the way through the movie, you wouldn’t have felt it as significantly as you do at the end". Powell felt that for the film, he had to come to the studio at five-o-clock in the morning and write the score at closed doors, as "he had to go to these slightly indulgent, dark, sad places to find things that might be potent for other people". Unlike the first two films in the franchise, the score for Hidden World has a "dark theme" for the main antagonist, dragon-hunter Grimmel, a "fate" riff, which signalled changes in the lives of key characters, lighthearted romantic music for Toothless and the potential mate, as well as "mystical, ethereal sounds for that “hidden world” of the dragons themselves". ![]() Dean DeBlois, on the music of Hidden World
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