The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (score)

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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (score) is Howard Shore’s orchestral film soundtrack for the second installment of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, expanding on his Middle-earth musical themes with darker, more menacing motifs.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf film score
soundtrack album
associatedWithAuthor J. R. R. Tolkien
associatedWithDirector Peter Jackson
associatedWithFilmSeries The Hobbit film trilogy
surface form: The Hobbit film series
associatedWithFranchise Middle-earth
basedOn The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (score) self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
composer Howard Shore
countryOfOrigin New Zealand
United States of America
surface form: United States
expandsOn Middle-earth musical themes
featuresInstrumentation chorus
solo vocals
symphony orchestra
follows The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (score)
genre film score
orchestral
soundtrack
hasMusicalStyle darker motifs
menacing motifs
hasTheme Laketown motif
Mirkwood motif
Smaug motif
language English
orchestrationBy Howard Shore
partOf The Hobbit film trilogy
surface form: The Hobbit film trilogy (Peter Jackson)
precedes The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (score)
reusesThemesFrom The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (score)
The Lord of the Rings film score
surface form: The Lord of the Rings film scores
setInFictionalUniverse Middle-earth

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Howard Shore notableWork The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (score)
Shore composed The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (score)
subject surface form: Howard Shore
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (score) basedOn The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (score) self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug