Licensing Company: MTI
Hunchback of Notre Dame
PROGRAMMED INSTRUMENTS
Keyboard 1
Keyboard 2
Drum Programming
$100.00 – $275.00
From the Academy Award-winning team comes a lushly scored retelling of Victor Hugo’s epic story of love, acceptance and what it means to be a hero.
PROGRAMMING NOTES
This licensed orchestration is an amalgamation based on the original 2014 production at La Jolla and the Pre-Broadway run at Paper Mill Playhouse in 2015.
This show is orchestrated to be stick conducted from the podium and has 2 keyboard players, both with heavy programming.
Keyboard 1 is the primary piano book but with lots of other patches throughout. Most of the sounds are Keyboard and Synth based. The programming contains everything from Fender Rhodes and Synth elements to Orchestral Instruments and Percussion layered in.
Keyboard 2 has nearly 350 patch changes with dozens of instruments and sounds. It will require an advanced player who can navigate the heavy score and dense programming. This book is a mix of synth passages and big organ parts. The bass part also exists entirely in Keyboard 2. The synth passages are as zany as the song they are featured in. So a cue like Topsy Turvy will have some busy lines and huge dynamic shifts. Meanwhile, many of the gentler songs just use synth tones for tension, and they are quite laid out. This part features lots of synth elements from Native Instruments FM8 and Massive along with many Logic/Mainstage based sounds.
We also offer the original drum programming available for various drum pads that corresponds to the licensed Drum book. This includes some of the timpani, piatti, and tambourines among other instruments. The drum pad programming is currently available for the Roland SPD, Yamaha DTX and Alesis Strike. Please indicate the drum pad you have in the customer notes at the time of checkout so we can make sure to send you the correct file. Although standard for many professional drummers and percussionists, if you do not have access to one of the drum pads, KeyboardTEK has a very limited supply of Roland SPD’s to rent with the programming already installed so please email us to inquire about adding this to your rental.
ORIGINAL MUSICAL EQUIPMENT USED
Hardware:
Yamaha S90XS Controllers for both keyboards
Sound Sources:
Mainstage
Kontakt
Hauptwerk
Ivory
Native Instruments Fm8
Native Instruments Massive
LA Scoring Strings
Boulder Hammered Dulcimer
KEYBOARD PROGRAMMER
Keyboard & SPD Drum Programming by: Taylor Williams
ORIGINAL MUSIC TEAM
Book by: Peter Parnell
Music by: Alan Menken
Lyrics by: Stephen Schwartz
Orchestrations by: Michael Starobin
Musical Supervisor/Arranger: Michael Kosarin
Dance Arrangements by: Rob Berman
Music Director: Brent-Alan Huffman
2014 La Jolla Playhouse Orchetsra
Conductor: Brent-Alan Huffman
Keyboard 1: Caleb Hoyer
Keyboard 2: Steven Malone
SHOW DESCRIPTION
Based on the Victor Hugo novel and songs from the Disney animated feature, The Hunchback of Notre Dame showcases the film’s Academy Award-nominated score, as well as new songs by Menken and Schwartz. Peter Parnell’s new book embraces story theatre and features verbatim passages from Hugo’s gothic novel.
The musical begins as the bells of Notre Dame sound through the famed cathedral in fifteenth-century Paris. Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer who longs to be “Out There,” observes all of Paris reveling in the Feast of Fools. Held captive by his devious caretaker, the archdeacon Dom Claude Frollo, he escapes for the day and joins the boisterous crowd, only to be treated cruelly by all but the beautiful gypsy, Esmeralda. Quasimodo isn’t the only one captivated by her free spirit, though – the handsome Captain Phoebus and Frollo are equally enthralled. As the three vie for her attention, Frollo embarks on a mission to destroy the gypsies – and it’s up to Quasimodo to save them all.
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MTI Access Code
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