Arrangement: Tiny Toon Adventures (Theme)
128When Tiny Toon Adventures first debuted, it was in the same year I was born (1990), so sadly I didn't know about it until just recently; I'm really only familiar with the show considered its spiritual successor, Animaniacs, and its two spin-off shows (Pinky and the Brain, and the forgettable Pinky, Elmyra, and the Brain). So I wanted to challenge myself by not only doing the Tiny Toons theme, but to do with it with a full orchestra. However, I wasn't happy with the results at first, and so I ended up changing the music just to try to follow this track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PboqIVriKo
The track is from a rare Japanese import with pure CD stereo sound quality, in which the theme tune is extended to almost double its length, and has characters singing in different languages (English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Japanese). But since I was doing an instrumental arrangement, I experimented with various instruments until I got a sound I enjoyed. So I began with a traditional orchestral score MuseScore provides, took some instruments away, and added some instruments you wouldn't find (such as the alto and tenor saxophone), and additional percussion instruments.
Ultimately I should be very proud of myself for doing it, because it taught me to think logically, and it taught me that I'm not the dumb donkey I sometimes think I am (and I'm not swearing, so I'm going to say "donkey;" you can figure out what the bad word is). Why do I say this? I've been having quite a few bad days at work (although so has everybody else), and my bad behavioral habit (as you all know) is blaming everything on myself and preaching it. This helped me to calm down, and music does calm the savage beast, after all.
Also note that with the score, I sometimes had to have 2 instruments playing the same thing just so I could hear it better. But I still hope you enjoy the music regardless.
Thus, this is the full lineup of instruments:
2 flutes
2 B-flat clarinets
2 alto saxophones
Tenor saxophone (sharing the tuba's part)
2 B-flat trumpets (playing melody)
2 trombones
Tuba (with tenor saxophone sharing its part, as mentioned)
Vibraphone
Glockenspiel
Snare drum
Bass drum
Cymbals
Bowl gong (which has just one note in the whole piece, but it is there)
Wood blocks
Tambourine
Triangle
Piano
2 violins
Cello (violoncello)
This arrangement © me and me alone
Original music © Warner Bros. and everybody else who owns the rights, including its composers, some of which also worked on "Animaniacs," "Pinky and the Brain," "Pinky, Elmyra, and the Brain," and "The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries:"
Bruce Broughton (the original theme music composer)
Steven Bernstein
Steven Bramson
Don Davis
Albert Lloyd Olson
William Ross
Arthur B. Rubinstein
Fred Steiner
Morton Stevens
Richard Stone
Stephen James Taylor
Mark Watters
John Debney