Symphony and Songbooks
This page explores Howard Shore’s “Lord of the Rings Symphony,” which encapsulates the musical themes from the LOTR trilogy. It includes interviews and other resources in print, CDs, DVDs, websites, etc., that share Howard Shore’s process of creating the score for the theatrical and extended versions of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. There is also a list of songs in the sheet-music books.
Link to these other pages for:
- Music Inspired by The Lord of the Rings. This page explores music inspired by the LOTR books and the films, other than compositions by Howard Shore.
- Various official editions of the LOTR film Soundtracks.
- Soundtrack + Film Live Performances As of 2010, a live symphony orchestra has performed the trilogy at Royal Albert Hall (UK) and Radio City Music Hall (US).
Websites
Forthcoming.
Books and Chapters
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Magazines and Articles
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Press Kit Items
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CDs and DVDs
Forthcoming.
Music Songbooks – Piano, Vocal, Chords Editions
FOTR Songbook
- The Prophecy
- Many Meetings
- Aniron (Theme for Aragorn and Arwen)
- Lament for Gandalf
- In Dreams
- May It Be
TTT Songbook
- The Riders of Rohan
- Evenstar
- Breath of Life
- Forth Erolingas
- Isengard Unleashed
- Gollum’s Song
ROTK Songbook
- The Return of the King
- The End of All Things
- Use Well the Days
- Twilight and Shadow
- The Steward of Gondor
- Minas Tirith
- Into the West
