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2021 Electrical Parade

EricsBiscuit

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Original Poster
So it's rumored that by 2021 we will have an electrical parade! What type of parade do y'all want to see? I'm hoping for something along the lines of SpectroMagic with updated visual effects. For me, the most important element, like in most entertainment, is the music. It's what ties it all together. It's why the MSEP had such a long run and why SM would have lasted another decade easily if it wasn't mistreated. It needs to be that classic Disney feel to it. This is where PTN fails to me, it's just too contemporary.
 

EricsBiscuit

Well-Known Member
Original Poster
We need something elegant and grand to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Magic Kingdom. I think a fusion of the best of SpectroMagic and The Main Street Electrical Parade would be perfect for the occasion.
What do you define as the best of each?
 

THEMEPARKPIONEER

Well-Known Member
Disneyland fans will be tied to the electrical parade as we are Spectromagic, we need our Spectro back. I just hope they done cheap out and push a 7 unit set on us like they did in Disneyland. I feel this long absence is their way of making us forget how but the origional parades were.
 

EricsBiscuit

Well-Known Member
Original Poster
Disneyland fans will be tied to the electrical parade as we are Spectromagic, we need our Spectro back. I just hope they done cheap out and push a 7 unit set on us like they did in Disneyland. I feel this long absence is their way of making us forget how but the origional parades were.
It has nothing to do with making us forget anything. That would be counterproductive to them because of nostalgia
 

KaliSplash

Well-Known Member
I'm with the guy who says two guys with a flashlight as long as we get the Hoedown!

the problem with SpectroMagic was never the floats, it was the Waltz!
 

brb1006

Well-Known Member
Disneyland fans will be tied to the electrical parade as we are Spectromagic, we need our Spectro back. I just hope they done cheap out and push a 7 unit set on us like they did in Disneyland. I feel this long absence is their way of making us forget how but the origional parades were.
Can't be the only person who felt PTN was to short.
 

MisterPenguin

President of Animal Kingdom
Premium Member
Sorry, but the original version of Baroque Hoedown must die. In whatever pit MSEP was thrown into and set afire, BH must burn with it.

Why? Repetitive. Trite. And the electronic music is awful in terms of its lack of being pleasing to the ears. It is high, shrill, tinny, lacking a full and rich timbre and resonance. In a crowd, those high shrilly notes carry and what little supporting undertone there is in the music dies leaving a Nails on Chalkboard Hoedown.

Also, it employs the same musical 'trick' of all of WDW's parade music: an eight bar repeating chordal structure so that as a particular float passes by, it has its own eight bar musical melody that's in sync with the underlying repeat. Thus, any music that is particular to a float has its music altered to fit the chords and tempo of those eight bar. And it ain't a particularly interesting chordal structure to begin with.

If were going to get a new Nighttime Parade, how about it being actually 'new'? Not one bringing back the music that was already outdated a decade after its first use.

The nighttime parades of other parks have full orchestral music. They don't include slide whistles and noise makers and pops and whirls to be cutesy. There are a lot of things you can do with a full orchestral arrangement to add whimsy and fun without electronic sound FX.

If you really want BH, it can be the music for just one particular float as a throwback to MSEP, but with better orchestration. Here is BH orchestrated differently, it could be done by a full orchestra...

 

aladdin2007

Well-Known Member
We need something elegant and grand to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Magic Kingdom. I think a fusion of the best of SpectroMagic and The Main Street Electrical Parade would be perfect for the occasion.

This spot on!!! But I dont think the suits today get that unfortunately.
 

DisAl

Well-Known Member
Maybe they could get Mannheim Steamroller or Trans Siberian Orchestra to redo Baroque Hoedown. Maybe it's just my age, but BH is still one I love to listen to. I bought the parade sound track and have it in my car.....
(Keep in mind I picked my avatar because it fits other than the fact that the avatar has some hair left on top. :D)
 

brb1006

Well-Known Member
Sorry, but the original version of Baroque Hoedown must die. In whatever pit MSEP was thrown into and set afire, BH must burn with it.

Why? Repetitive. Trite. And the electronic music is awful in terms of its lack of being pleasing to the ears. It is high, shrill, tinny, lacking a full and rich timbre and resonance. In a crowd, those high shrilly notes carry and what little supporting undertone there is in the music dies leaving a Nails on Chalkboard Hoedown.

Also, it employs the same musical 'trick' of all of WDW's parade music: an eight bar repeating chordal structure so that as a particular float passes by, it has its own eight bar musical melody that's in sync with the underlying repeat. Thus, any music that is particular to a float has its music altered to fit the chords and tempo of those eight bar. And it ain't a particularly interesting chordal structure to begin with.

If were going to get a new Nighttime Parade, how about it being actually 'new'? Not one bringing back the music that was already outdated a decade after its first use.

The nighttime parades of other parks have full orchestral music. They don't include slide whistles and noise makers and pops and whirls to be cutesy. There are a lot of things you can do with a full orchestral arrangement to add whimsy and fun without electronic sound FX.

If you really want BH, it can be the music for just one particular float as a throwback to MSEP, but with better orchestration. Here is BH orchestrated differently, it could be done by a full orchestra...


The only exception is Dreamlights
 

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