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‘Moonlight’ Composer Breaks Down His Scoring Process | Vanity Fair

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Composer and pianist Nicholas Britell takes us through his scoring process using examples from ‘Moonlight,’ Battle of the Sexes’ and ‘The King.’ He explains the different kinds of chords, their complexities, and the importance of a film’s context in the process of composing a score.

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  1. Kit Fisto

    December 2, 2019 at 9:20 pm

    he looks so passionate about composing music, I’d love to see more of him teaching us

  2. Philipstyrer

    December 2, 2019 at 9:30 pm

    Oh so we’re doing The King spoilers as well? Since there’s no mention of that movie in the title I assumed the warning only pertained to Moonlight!

    • Kathleen

      December 3, 2019 at 9:06 am

      You can literally stop watching the video as soon as it’s mentioned?

  3. NDjay

    December 2, 2019 at 9:34 pm

    Just coming to see comments of people sayin “i thought this was gonna be x his song” lol

  4. Ha Je

    December 2, 2019 at 9:35 pm

    he should have two oscars by now for moonlight and beale street. ESPECIALLY beale street.

  5. Kugel

    December 2, 2019 at 10:27 pm

    Music was half of this movie

  6. Priyanshu Vasava

    December 2, 2019 at 10:35 pm

    Moonlight uh spotlight uh

  7. Curtis

    December 3, 2019 at 12:02 am

    Spotlight uh moonlight uh

  8. Kruuz

    December 3, 2019 at 12:03 am

    This guy, whom I have never before heard of, just sat down with a piano and made me want watch three great movies. And I think that I find these movies great more so because of the music.

  9. hubadora

    December 3, 2019 at 1:10 am

    literally one of my all time favorite movie scores of all time especially the haunting violin solo during Middle of the World. amazing work 🙂

  10. Quinn Reverance

    December 3, 2019 at 2:09 am

    im not smart enough to even pretend to understand

  11. Forest Green

    December 3, 2019 at 3:15 am

    9:50 what did he just say?

  12. yoda you talk like

    December 3, 2019 at 3:29 am

    what chords did he play in the beginning

  13. AAnonymous Gamer24

    December 3, 2019 at 4:07 am

    I thought this was the guy who did xxxtentation’s song

  14. Jayden Marvel

    December 3, 2019 at 5:13 am

    Why the sudden?

  15. bees752

    December 3, 2019 at 5:17 am

    VANITY FAIR I OWE YOU MY LIFE

  16. sophie

    December 3, 2019 at 5:32 am

    Thought they meant spotlight moonlight

  17. Anthony Recenello

    December 3, 2019 at 5:39 am

    This is outstanding. I had a channel years ago on breaking down musicians processes. But today I like analyzing the charm of people.

  18. Davidisdope

    December 3, 2019 at 6:38 am

    I feel like a musical genius after listening to him, he passed his knowledge to me

  19. playandrepeat

    December 3, 2019 at 6:46 am

    Love 🙂

  20. playandrepeat

    December 3, 2019 at 6:49 am

    How dare he not mention Succession though, what a waste

  21. Alice Hargest

    December 3, 2019 at 10:13 am

    I’ve not seen this film, but his music makes me want to ????

  22. GEEW1ZZ

    December 3, 2019 at 10:25 am

    mixing minor/major chords always feels scifi to me

  23. and r

    December 3, 2019 at 11:18 am

    succession’s theme has been in my head for 2 months now. He truly deserves that emmy

  24. Alaina Callahan

    December 3, 2019 at 12:53 pm

    That was brilliant! The King was an amazing movie and I’ll have to watch it again now.

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