Reception Professional ratings Review scores Shore also scored the trailer for the film, which would eventually be released with various alternate takes in the Rarities archive. The score even uses a double fiddle, an instrument invented and crafted specifically for one scene in the film. It also musters the biggest staged forces, with sections calling for eight trumpets and a similar increase in the rest of the brass section, two timpanists, a mixed choir of 85 with additional singers for all-male and all-female parts, over fifty in the boy choir, various vocal soloists including soprano Renee Fleming and boy soprano Ben Del Maestro, and the full bands of celtic and eastern instruments returning from the first score. The score to Return of the King is the most expansive of the three: containing over four hours of finalized music, scoring virtually the entire film length.
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