UOE and HISTA share the same score!

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goldenstate5

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Note this: Both Ellen's Energy Adventure and Honey, I Shrunk the Audience were composed by the same guy: Bruce Broughton. Evidently, since HISTA and EEA were opened relatively in the same amount of time (2 years between each other)...I guess the composer got lazy and turned Ellen's cinematic score into cheesy awards show music for HISTA! Want proof, listen...

UOE: http://som.ewapps.com/epcot/Ellen's Energy Adventure.mp3

HISTA: http://som.ewapps.com/dlp/discoveryland/HISTA Fanfare.mp3

Amazing, isn't it?...(note: UOE and HISTA both have a bit of music before the main theme, yet you WILL notice the similarity once it comes)...
 
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General Grizz

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Mr. Broughton is a FANTASTIC composer and also wrote the score for Timekeeper (WDW AND DLP - (from the early 90s RIP). I do not think he got lazy; the Imagination Institute and Ellen themes are both very distinct, but as they were written by the same composer, certain elements may carry over. :)
 
TheDisneyMagic

TheDisneyMagic

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I found it quite ironic that I was listening to both of those just as I was reading the thread, I love these pieces of music. Ellen's Energy Adventure theme is one of my favourite themes going I always have it playing in the background of my computer room.
 
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Montu

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goldenstate5 said:
Note this: Both Ellen's Energy Adventure and Honey, I Shrunk the Audience were composed by the same guy: Bruce Broughton. Evidently, since HISTA and EEA were opened relatively in the same amount of time (2 years between each other)...I guess the composer got lazy and turned Ellen's cinematic score into cheesy awards show music for HISTA! Want proof, listen...

UOE: http://som.ewapps.com/epcot/Ellen's Energy Adventure.mp3

HISTA: http://som.ewapps.com/dlp/discoveryland/HISTA Fanfare.mp3

Amazing, isn't it?...(note: UOE and HISTA both have a bit of music before the main theme, yet you WILL notice the similarity once it comes)...
Click to expand...

HISTA opened well before the Ellen over-lay to Universe of Energy.

Consider this theory officially dead.
 
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wardrobeguy

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Ya know.. I wouldn't be surprised. When I was a kid one of my favorite movies was "The Boy who could Fly" which has a score by Bruce Broughton. I was in college when "The Rescuers Down Under" was released, also with a score by Broughton. I noticed then that some of the more majestic theme music sounded very much the same.
 
SirNim

SirNim

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Instrumentation, chord progressions, perhaps.

But the melodies of the two scores are muy diferentes.
 
stitchfan

stitchfan

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LOL...now that's too funny.


Each composer has his own unique "sound"...for instance, if you've heard the scores to "Harry Potter" and "Star Wars," then you didn't need the movie credits to tell you that John Williams wrote the score for "Jurassic Park." His music just has a certain..."sound" to it, unique to him.

As it happens, Bruce Broughton wrote the score for my all-time favorite Western movie..."Silverado."

And while listening to the "Ellen's Energy Adventure" piece...I could hear the same "sound." Not quite as much so in the HISTA piece, but a sense of it was there.

I couldn't help but laugh....I often kind of wondered if Broughton had done any other work that I had missed..I guess he did! :)
 
imagineer boy

imagineer boy

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They don't sound the same in the least. Ellen's evergy adventure, has a crazy science adventure type theme, while the Imagination Institute theme has a more oderly and proper theme. I LOVE both of them, they're great!
 
tigger248

tigger248

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I can hear some similarities between the two. It's not real noticeable (I never noticed it before today), but when listening specifically I could hear it. Though, I agree more to the theory that it's just part of his sound. I really doubt that laziness played a part at all. I think that's perhaps part of his sound and it just carried over. Or, perhaps he really liked his work on HISTA (that one was first, wasn't it?) and decided to incorporate some of its elements into Ellen's Energy Adventure. It's definitely happened in the past. Beauty and the Beast's opening score anyone? While the similarities are there, they probably aren't as clear to the average guest. I listen to both pieces frequently (they're among my favorites) and had never noticed until I was looking for it. People like my brother, who would be doing good just to identify the music as Disney, would be much less likely to notice any similarities.

Bruce Broughton is a wonderful composer, who has written some great music. I love a great number of his pieces!
 
DigitalDisney

DigitalDisney

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Of course there will be similarities. For the most part, each composer or band has their own unique style. If you're a fan, you should be able to hear a new piece of music, and associate it with a band/artist you already know (or at least make a dang good guess).

For example, while John Williams is a brilliant composer, he does use a lot of the same styles and methods when composing his music.
 
TheOneVader

TheOneVader

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Hmm... Don't they use both of those at the entrance of Epcot, as well? And they used HISTA on the WDW Tour, if I'm not mistaken...
 
raven

raven

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Check to see on those movies if it's Bruce Broughton or Bill Broughton.

When I lived in St. Louis, I played percussion in an orchestra and we had Bruce's brother Bill as a guest conductor for a concert. He composes music as well, mainly for TV and movies but I got him to autograph a piece of music that he wrote out for me because we didn't have the 2nd percussion part. :wave: Just a fun bit of info.
 

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