[He didnt say], I want this kind of piece, I want strings or horns.

[Scott wanted me] to understand that Napoleon was a character and that he was an outsider.

And he wanted me to represent that in music, Phipps said.

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He was a bit of a fighter.

So, we went with something simple, something almost like a gangsters-bang out level of tune.

We use trumpets and a simple waltz.

We got into his head a little bit.

Phipps also talked about how he tracked down a centuries-old piano that Napoleon previously owned for the score.

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