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David Wise is a British video game music composer and musician. He was a composer at Rare from 1985 to 2009, and he was the company's sole musician up until 1994. He has gained a dedicated following for his work on various games, particularly Nintendo 's Donkey Kong Country series .
Wise initially worked as a freelancer and assumed his music would be replaced by a Japanese composer because of the importance of Donkey Kong to Nintendo. Rare asked Wise to record three jungle demo melodies, which were merged to become the "DK Island Swing", the first level's track. Wise was subsequently offered the job to produce the final ...
David Wise may refer to: David Wise (freestyle skier) (born 1990), American freestyle skier; David Wise (cricketer) (born 1966), former English cricketer; David Wise (composer), British video game music composer; David Wise (journalist) (1930-2018), American investigative journalist and writer, winner of the 1975 Orwell Award
Wise Music Group is a global music publisher, with headquarters in Berners Street, London. In February 2020, Wise Music Group changed its name from The Music Sales Group. [1] [2] In 2014 Wise Music Group (as The Music Sales Group) acquired French classical music publisher Éditions Alphonse Leduc.
In 2006, Music Sales acquired Sanctuary Books which added a significant number of additional music books to the Omnibus list, as well as a number of sports, travel and novelty & gift books. [citation needed] In February 2020, parent company Wise Music Group changed its name from The Music Sales Group. [7]
Kirkhope was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, where his mother, Margaret Kirkhope, worked as a music hall dancer. Kirkhope's father, Alexander Kirkhope, was works manager of Redpath Brown steel works and was an avid music fan and exposed him to early influences such as Frank Sinatra and Glenn Miller. Kirkhope taught himself to play guitar at age 11 ...
Toggle Companies in the Wise Music Group subsection. 5.1 G Schirmer/AMP. 5.2 Éditions Alphonse Leduc. 5.3 Edition Wilhelm Hansen. 5.4 Unión Musical Ediciones.
In 1990, Weiss started a band with tenor saxophonist Craig Handy. The rest of the band rotated: Benny Green, Stephen Scott, or Dave Kikoski on piano, Christian McBride on bass, and Billy Hart or Jeff Watts on drums. Weiss assisted Handy with the music of The Cosby Mysteries, including arranging the title theme.