Product Description
Avatar: The Way of Water, is the long-awaited sequel to the award-winning film from 2009. The soundtrack for the new film was written by Simon Franglen, who originally wrote 5 hours of music to cover any and all situations in the almost 3-hour movie.
From Darkness to Light is a beautiful instrumental piece in the movie that shows off the beauty of the water. On paper, the music seems a little too simple, but the chord progressions together with the moving parts make for quite a beautiful and memorable piece.
This arrangement is scored for flute choir piccolo with 4 C, alto, bass, and contrabass flutes. There is an optional cello part that doubles the contrabass that can be played by any bass clef C instrument in a similar range.
One of the most important parts of this piece is what helps create the mood, which is where the part called Shimmer comes in. In an interview, Simon Franglen said that an important part of the music is the feeling of light, and he achieved that by including shimmering sounds into his tunes. With that in mind, this is how the Shimmer part can be played: Hang a few keys (house keys, car keys, etc.) that have different pitches on short lengths of string. Use a small metal or wooden object to lightly hit the keys to create little dings.
Be creative with this percussive part! You can use whistle tones, a little xylophone, wind chimes, etc. The idea is to create a magical mood without overpowering the music. Play this part wherever there is a note in the measure.
Duration: 3.75 minutes
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