How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (soundtrack)

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"Music does half of the storytelling and in the case of John Powell, a storyteller in his own right, he is a partner from the beginning. He finds themes that I might not even be consciously aware of and brings them to the surface."

Dean DeBlois, on the music of Hidden World [5]

Unlike the first two films in the franchise, the score for Hidden World has a "dark theme" for the main antagonist, dragon-hunter Grimmel, a "fate" riff, which signalled changes in the lives of key characters, lighthearted romantic music for Toothless and the potential mate, as well as "mystical, ethereal sounds for that “hidden world” of the dragons themselves". Powell felt that for the film, he had to come to the studio at five-o-clock in the morning and write the score at closed doors, as "he had to go to these slightly indulgent, dark, sad places to find things that might be potent for other people". [5] [6]

He also brought his earlier themes, and also reproduced them to create newer versions and integrate it in the film, as "if he had kept using material that everybody knew all the way through the movie, you wouldn’t have felt it as significantly as you do at the end". [5] He produced a varied soundscape, including playful sounds for dragon romps, orchestral sounds for the battle sequences, string march for the Vikings' exodus, a celebratory song ("Together From Afar") in the conclusion, as well as unusual instrumental colors to convey the ancient world. [7] He made use of multiple instruments such as Celtic harp, bodhrán frame drum, uilleann pipes, traditional Scottish bagpipes, and backing vocals which were provided by Jónsi (who provided for the music of How to Train Your Dragon 2). [5] [8] He also recorded the original song "Together From Afar". [5] [9]

Jónsi was in town, so John set him up with a laptop and a microphone and had him focus on the Hidden World. When we first enter that space it’s all very mysterious and forbidding. Jónsi spent the day working with layers of his own voice. John then incorporated that into the tease and then finally the full-blown, majestic Hidden World theme. When I heard it, I remember thinking, ‘Wow.’

DeBlois on the composition of the title theme [5]

Powell added that, one of the challenging sequence was when Toothless woos the mysterious Light Fury on a beach, where he came with a "delicate melody with a dance-like rhythm" which he expanded into a seven-minute cue using the classical form of passacaglia. He called it as "one of several special moments that are music-driven, without dialogue". [5]

Recording

The score was recorded at the Abbey Road Studios in London on October 2018. Unlike his previous films, John used a full orchestra for this film, which consisted of 98 musicians, eight ethnic-music soloists and a 60-member vocal choir. Grammy-winning choral composer-arranger Eric Whitacre, whom Powell worked on Kung Fu Panda (2008), conducted the choir in various texts and translated them into Gaelic and Latin. The film's director Dean DeBlois and Cressida Cowell, the author of the children's book series whose writings and illustrations inspired the films, and also worked on the film adaptations as an executive producer, supervised the recording sessions. The one hour and thirty three-minute long music was recorded within nine days. [5] [3]

Track listing

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Film score by
ReleasedFebruary 1, 2019 (2019-02-01)
RecordedOctober 2018–January 2019
Studio Abbey Road Studios, London
5 Cat Studios, Los Angeles
Genre Film score
Length75:51
Label Back Lot Music
Producer John Powell
John Powell chronology
Solo: A Star Wars Story
(2018)
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
(2019)
The Call of the Wild
(2020)
No.TitleLength
1."Raiders Return to Busy, Busy Berk"5:27
2."Dinner Talk – Grimmel's Introduction"3:53
3."Legend Has It – Cliffside Playtime"4:21
4."Toothless: Smitten."3:16
5."Worst Pep Talk Ever"2:40
6."Night Fury Killer"3:36
7."Exodus!"4:38
8."Third Date"6:49
9."New New Tail"1:28
10."Furies in Love"3:03
11."Killer Dragons"5:05
12."With Love Comes a Great Waterfall"2:08
13."The Hidden World"5:16
14."Armada Battle"8:40
15."As Long As He's Safe"6:29
16."Once There Were Dragons"5:45
17."Together From Afar" (Jónsi)3:17
Total length:75:51

Reception

Critical response

Zanobard Reviews gave 9/10 to the score and wrote "John Powell’s score to How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is just marvelous. He introduces a number of amazing new themes as well as bringing back all your favourites from the previous movies, and intertwines them expertly with his frankly ridiculously over-the-top action scoring (but that’s why we love it). The album not only serves as a very solid third entry to the musical franchise but also as an epic and absolutely brilliant conclusion to his masterful trilogy. The first film’s score still just edges this one, but it’s got the second movie beaten, that’s for sure. It’s a superb soundtrack, and one that was most definitely worth the wait." [10]

Critic Jonathan Broxton wrote "John Powell has created what might be his defining film music legacy. Of course he’s still young, and so he still has plenty of time to write something that will top it; also, for the sake of argument, some people may say that his music for the Bourne films is just as influential. The entire How to Train Your Dragon series is a bonafide masterpiece, a gloriously bold and colorful fantasy of Viking life, heroes and dragons, honor and friendship and grand adventure. Everything points to How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World being the last film in this series and, if so, Powell has ended on a high. It won’t get an Oscar nomination, because sequels like this never do, but this will still be riding high as one of the scores of the year." [11]

Filmtracks.com wrote "Powell does not introduce new themes for these concepts explicitly, but he does offer a wide enough breadth of fresh identities to accompany their general purposes. The dragons' themes have been condensed into several motifs to represent the two leads of their kind, the Berk theme is displaced by a new one for another island, the flying and friendship themes are supplanted by new heroic alternatives, and other major new locations and characters are afforded appropriate ideas of their own. The inclusion of a theme and submotif for fate ties all of them together by the end." [12] James Southall of Movie Wave wrote "With the first score having come in the first year of the 2010s and the final one in the last, this trilogy of music frames a decade of film music in which it has played a very notable part. While perhaps this third instalment doesn’t quite have a track to rival “Test Drive” or “Flying with Mother” (“Armada Battle” and “Once There Were Dragons” do come close) it is still for the most part of the highest quality and shows off again what a fine composer John Powell is. The films obviously held special meaning for him and his family and his emotion shines through all through it." [13]

Accolades

AwardDate of ceremonyCategoryRecipient(s)ResultRef.
Hollywood Music in Media Awards November 20, 2019 Original Score – Animated Film John Powell Won [14]
[15]
Original Song – Animated Film John Powell and Jónsi for "Together From Afar"Nominated
International Film Music Critics Association Awards February 20, 2020 Best Original Score for an Animated Film John Powell Nominated [16]
[17]
Society of Composers & Lyricists Awards January 7, 2020Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film John Powell Nominated [18]
World Soundtrack Awards October 18, 2019 Best Original Score of the Year John Powell Nominated [19]
[20]
Public Choice Award John Powell Won

Piano solos

On May 15, 2020, Powell released an album titled Piano Solos from How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, through his own record label. [21] [22] The album features nine tracks from Powell's original score, arranged for solo piano and performed by Powell's frequent collaborator Batu Sener. The arrangements from this album are printed and distributed by Hal Leonard Publishing Company. [23]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Legend Has It – Cliffside Playtime"4:36
2."Toothless: Smitten."3:09
3."Exodus!"4:42
4."Third Date"1:23
5."New New Tail"1:27
6."Furies in Love"3:24
7."With Love Comes Loss"1:10
8."The Hidden World"2:07
9."Once There Were Dragons"6:03
Total length:28:05

Personnel

Credits adapted from CD liner notes. [24]

Instruments
Choir
Orchestra

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