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Here we have orchestral scoring reminiscent of Western films,
Aaron Copland etc during the heyday of this genre, 1930s-70s.
This was my first experiment on Pro Tools literally right out of the box when it arrived at my home in 2011. Nothing was prepared. Just made it up as I went along and was stoked by the ease with which the machine cooked up orchestral tracks.
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Throughout the Tudor and early Stuart periods, the city of London endured a radical expansion and transformation, from the Medieval walled city it had been, toward the modern city it would become. Much of its physical expansion took place on the westward side of the city.
The phrases "westward ho!" and "eastward ho!" were the cries of the watermen who provided taxi service by boat on the River Thames.
In their original play, Dekker and Webster took a broad-scale satirical view of contemporary events and developments in London, as it evolved "westward" into new, more egalitarian, more capitalistic and competitive forms.
The phrase "westward ho!" occurs in various other contexts in the English Renaissance era, including a use by Shakespeare in Twelfth Night, III,i,134. The same phrase acquired future uses in other contexts, notably in the exploration of the American West.
