The Music of The Lone Ranger (2013 film)

Copyright © 2013 Disney Enterprises, Inc. and Jerry Bruckheimer, Inc.

Music by

Hans Zimmer

Supervising Music Editor

Kenneth Karman

Music Wrangler

Bob Badami

Music Editors

Peter Oso Snell and Katie Greathouse

Music Production Supervisor

Monica Zierhut

Additional Music by

Geoff Zanelli

Rupert Gregson-Williams

Steve Mazzaro

Andrew Kawczynski

Jasha Klebe

Lorne Balfe

Featured Musicians

Nico Abondolo

Jason Bonham

Ann Marie Calhoun

Anthony Clarke

Mike Einziger

Pedro Eustache

Aleksey Igudesman

Arturo Sandoval

Tristan Schulze

Supervising Orchestrator

Bruce Fowler

Orchestrations by

Walt Fowler, Kevin Kaska, Suzette Moriarty, Carl Rydlund

Music Preparation

Booker White — Walt Disney Music Library

Score Recorded by

Joel Iwataki

Score Mixed by

Daniel Kresco and Satoshi Noguchi

Digital Workstation Operators

Kevin Globerman and Vincent Cirilli

Orchestra Conducted by

Nick Glennie-Smith

Score Recorded at

Sony Scoring Stage and The Newman Scoring Stage

Score Recorded and Mixed at

Remote Control Studios

Orchestra Contractor

Peter Rotter

Concert Master

Belinda Broughton

Music Production Services

Steve Kofsky

Score Coordination for Remote Control Studios

Czarina Russell

Technical Assistants

Chuck Choi, Brian Wherry, Phill Boucher

Digital Instrument Design

Mark Wherry

Assistant Engineers

Christian Wenger, Tim Lauber, Adam Michalak

On-Camera Supervising Music Mixer

Joseph Magee

On-Camera Music Arranged by

Geoff Zanelli

Pre-Record Orchestrations by

Marshall Bowen, Dave Giuli, Jennifer Hammond

Vocal Contractor

Jasper Randall

After the Battle of Aughrim

Arranged by Hans Zimmer and Ann Marie Calhoun

Hanson Place (Shall We Gather at The River)

Arranged by Marshall Bowen

Battle Hymn of the Republic

Arranged by Geoff Zanelli

Red’s Theater of the Absurd

Written and Produced by Jack White

Performed by Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three

Beautiful Dreamer

Arranged and Produced by Jack White

Performed by Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three

The Girl in the Flying Trapeze

Arranged and Produced by Jack White

Performed by Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three

Dixie

Arranged by Kenneth Karman

Stars and Stripes Forever

Written by John Philip Sousa

Arranged by Geoff Zanelli

Marse Henry March

Arranged by Geoff Zanelli

The Star Spangled Banner

Written by Francis Scott Key

Arranged by Geoff Zanelli

William Tell Overture

Arranged by Geoff Zanelli

Soundtrack Available on

Walt Disney Records

The Music of Pearl Harbor (2001 film)

Copyright © 2001 Touchstone Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer, Inc.

Music by

Hans Zimmer

Music Supervisors

Bob Badami and Kathy Nelson

Music Editor

Jennifer Nash

Assistant Music Editor

Katie Greathouse

Music Production Services by

Media Ventures

Score Recorded and Mixed by

Alan Meyerson

Score Conducted by

Gavin Greenaway

Supervising Orchestrator

Bruce Fowler

Orchestrations by

Elizabeth Finch, Walter Fowler, Ladd McIntosh, Suzette Moriarty

Concertmaster

Andre Granat

Soprano Solos by

Julia Migenes

Additional Recording by

Slamm Andrews

Additional Arrangements

Fiachra Trench

Klaus Badelt

Steve Jablonsky

James S. Levine

Geoff Zanelli

Assistant Engineers

Gregg Silk and Kevin Globerman

Score Stage Recordist

John Rodd

Score Recorded at

Newman Scoring Stage

Music Contractor

Sandy DeCrescent

On-Camera Production Music Recorded by

Joseph Magee

Production Music Recorded at

Signet Sound Studios

Music Preparation by

Booker White — Walt Disney Music Library

There You’ll Be

Written by Diane Warren

Produced by Trevor Horn and Byron Gallimore

Performed by Faith Hill

Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records

Soundtrack Available on

Hollywood Records / Warner Bros. Records

Hans Zimmer

Hans Florian Zimmer

Composer; his early work for Disney included additional music for White Fang and co-writing music for Cool Runnings. His work on The Lion King would earn the 1995 Academy Award for Best Original Score, followed by his contributions to Crimson Tide, White Squall, The Rock, Pearl Harbor, King Arthur, The Prestige, four Pirates of the Caribbean films (The Curse of the Black Pearl, Dead Man’s Chest, At World’s End, and On Stranger Tides), and The Lion King (2019). He was named a Disney Legend in 2019.

Date of Birth: September 12, 1957 (67 years old)

Birthplace: Frankfurt, Germany

Occupation

• Score composer/producer/arranger
• Songwriter/producer/arranger
• Founder of Remote Control Productions
• Founder of 14th Street Music and Bleeding Fingers Music

Instruments

• Guitar
• Keyboards
• Piano
• Synthesizers

Relatives

• Vicki Carolin (first ex-wife)
• Zoë Zimmer (daughter)
• Suzanne Zimmer (second ex-wife; 1995–2020)
• Jake Zimmer (son)
• Max Zimmer (son)

Motion Pictures (My List)

Composer

1990: Green Card

1993: Cool Runnings

1994: Renaissance Man

1994: The Lion King

1995: Crimson Tide

1996: The Rock — with Nick Glennie-Smith

1996: The Preacher’s Wife

2001: Pearl Harbor

2002: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

2004: King Arthur

2006: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

2007: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

2011: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

2013: The Lone Ranger

2019: The Lion King

Music Department

1994: The Lion King — Score Arranger and Music Supervision

1996: White Squall — Additional Music

1996: The Rock — Score Arranger

1998: Endurance (documentary) — Music Producer

2003: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl — Music Producer

2006: The Prestige — Executive Music Producer

2008: Iron Man — Executive Music Producer

2019: The Lion King — Executive Music Producer

2024: Mufasa: The Lion King — The Lion King Original Score Composer

Albums (My List)

1995: Rhythm of the Pride Lands — Song Producer/Arranger, Lyrics and Music

Theatre

Broadway

1997–present: The Lion King — Additional Music and Lyrics

Collaborations

• Klaus Badelt
• Michael Bay
• Jerry Bruckheimer
• Pedro Eustache
• Bruce L. Fowler
• Jon Favreau
• Nick Glennie-Smith
• Gavin Greenaway
• Harry Gregson-Williams
• Rupert Gregson-Williams
• Tina Guo
• Trevor Horn
• Steve Jablonsky
• Elton John
• Lebo M.
• Mark Mancina
• Dave Metzger
• Alan Meyerson
• Heitor Pereira
• John Powell
• Tim Rice
• Jay Rifkin
• Julie Taymor
• Gore Verbinski

Awards (My List)

Academy Awards

1995: Winner for Best Original Score (The Lion King)

1997: Nominated (The Preacher’s Wife)

ASCAP Film & Television Music Awards

2002: Winner (Pearl Harbor)

2003: Winner for Top Box Office Films (Here I Am)

2007: Winner (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest)

2008: Winner (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End)

2012: Winner (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides)

2014: Winner (The Lone Ranger)

Awards Circuit Community Awards

1994: Winner (The Lion King)

2001: Nominated (Pearl Harbor)

BMI Film & Television Music Awards

1995: Winner (The Lion King)

1996: Winner (Crimson Tide)

1997: Winner (The Rock)

Golden Globe Awards

1995: Winner for Best Original Score - Motion Picture (The Lion King)

2002: Nominated for Best Original Score - Motion Picture (Pearl Harbor)

2003: Nominated for Best Original Song - Motion Picture (Here I Am)

GoldSpirit Awards

2001: Winner for Best Drama Soundtrack (Pearl Harbor: Music from the Motion Picture)

2001: Nominated for Best Soundtrack (Pearl Harbor: Music from the Motion Picture)

Grammy Awards

1995: Winner for Best Musical Album for Children (The Lion King: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

1995: Nominated for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television (The Lion King)

1995: Winner for Best Instrumental Arrangement with Accompanying Vocals (Circle of Life)

1996: Winner for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television (Crimson Tide)

2007: Nominated for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest)

2020: Nominated for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (The Lion King: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2020: Nominated for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media (The Lion King: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

International Film Music Critics Awards

2004: Nominated for Best Original Score for an Action/Adventure Film (King Arthur)

2006: Nominated (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest)

2007: IFMCA Award — 2x Nominated

Saturn Awards

1996: Nominated for Best Music (Crimson Tide)

1997: Nominated for Best Music (The Rock)

Other Awards and Honors

1994: Chicago Film Critics Association Award — Winner (The Lion King)

1998: Tony Award — Nominated for Best Original Score (The Lion King)

2010: Hollywood Walk of Fame

2019: Disney Legend

Production Notes of Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

Date of Production: 1998

DreamWorks Pictures newest animated feature, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, is both an artistic and technical marvel, and illustrates that what is regarded these days as traditional animation, is anything but traditional. The advent of the computer in animation has revolutionized the genre, perhaps most notably with the inauguration of entirely computer-animated films. However, the computer has also had an ever-increasing impact on 2D, traditional animation.

Surprisingly, for all its painterly qualities, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is DreamWorks most technologically complex animated film of any kind to date.

“The thing that is unique to traditional animation is what happens when an artist, an animator, gives life to a character with his or her own hand,” producer Jeffrey Katzenberg offers. “It’s a direct creation of life with a pencil on a piece of paper. Computers can't do that… not yet.” But, Katzenberg adds, “The computer is not the nemesis of traditional animation. What I wanted to do with this film was to take hand-drawn animation and marry it together with state of the art technology to create a film that is the best of both worlds.”

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is by no means the first traditionally animated film to incorporate computer-animated elements. However, this movie represents such a wholesale commingling of these two techniques, that some of the production team have referred to it as a hybrid form of animation. The primary example of this hybrid comes early on in the film, as we see the adult Spirit running with his herd. As they run, we are watching 3D animation not only of the herd, but also of Spirit himself. As Spirit comes up to the crest of a hill, the camera zooms in to circle around him, and we witness, but don’t see, an absolutely imperceptible 2D takeover of the shot. Then, as the camera moves back, there is another takeover, this time 3D, that is equally seamless.

Whether 2D or 3D, horses are notoriously difficult to draw and even more so to animate, which speaks to why Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is the first animated film to feature a horse as its central character.

There are several elements that have kept horses off the drawing boards of animators. They have a long, inflexible spine, a defined musculature seen in every movement and a wide range of gaits. Their faces also pose another kind of challenge, characterized by an elongated muzzle, with the eyes set high and wide and the mouth set low.

The entire animation team began an intensive crash course on equine anatomy, movement, locomotion and behavior. At the Los Angeles Equestrian Center, the animators spent hours studying and sketching real horses. The animators also benefited enormously from the expertise of two of the horse world’s most respected authorities and the film’s horse consultants, Dr. Deb Bennett and Dr. Stuart Sumida.

The doctors engaged the animators in a multi-pronged training program, teaching them about horses from the inside out. Aside from the fact that horses have that long, rigid spine, other parts of their anatomy are almost always moving, from the long neck that bends and swings and the tail that flicks and swishes, to the ears that pivot to capture sound and the lips that serve as their “hands”.

The animation team was further educated about the varying gaits of a horse - walk, trot, canter and full gallop. More than just the speed, animators had to learn the individual components of each gait and the emotions behind them. For example, the frolicking gallop of a horse at play is entirely different from a gallop instigated by fear.

One special character in Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is neither horse nor human. It is the landscape of the American West itself, at a time when the frontier was as untamed as the wild mustangs that called it home.

The progress of civilization has forever changed much of the landscape, so production designer Kathy Altieri, art directors Ron Lukas and Luc Desmarchelier and the filmmakers began their research in books about the Old West. They also watched old movie Westerns and studied the paintings of the great Western artists, like Frederic Remington, Frank Tenney Johnson and James Reynolds.

But no painting, movie or photograph could be as inspirational to the filmmakers and design team as seeing firsthand the still-breathtaking vistas of the West. So eight members of the production team embarked on a whirlwind tour of eight of America’s most treasured national parks in only four days.

Glacier National Park became the model for Spirit’s homeland, with its magnificent landscape of lush green grass, open blue skies and rolling hills and valleys. In sharp contrast, the Cavalry fort was a re-creation of Monument Valley where the terrain is stark and more angular.

Aspects of both Yosemite National Park and Yellowstone National Park are seen in the Lakota village where Spirit meets his love Rain. Bryce Canyon, with its unique rock formations towering above narrow, winding trails, provides the perfect backdrop for the heart-stopping chase scene. To do the panoramic vistas of the American West justice on the screen, the filmmakers felt their only choice was to shoot Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron in the wide-screen format Cinemascope. For the animation team, the decision meant they would be required to produce 40 percent more animation to fill the larger frames. At 24 frames per second, this translated to a great deal of work for both the traditional animators and the digital artists.

At the start of the film, the audience is carried into the world of Spirit on the wings of an eagle in what the production team dubbed the “homeland pan.” The shot is a three-minute camera fly through capturing some of the most recognizable landmarks of the American West, in what appears to be one long, continuous pan. Actually comprised of seven separate parts, the sequence features a perfect blending of hand drawn-characters and traditionally painted backdrops with digital environments and CG characters.

More than nine months in just the design stage, the homeland pan was one of the first sequences to go into production and one of the last to be finished. Achieving the exceedingly complex shot required literally tens of thousands of 2D and 3D elements, including more than 700 traditionally painted backgrounds and more than 2,500 drawings, another 1,800-plus painted elements that were then texture mapped onto 3D geometry to make the virtual sets and more than 12,000 frames of computer-generated elements. There were an average of 30 layers composited to produce any given frame, and the fly through involved 4,183 final film frames.