Film Score

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FILM

Ave Satani: diabolic essence of The Omen theme song

Ave Satani is a choral work written by the prolific American composer Jerry Goldsmith for the 1976 supernatural horror...
FILM

Concerning Hobbits: portraying home with the penny whistle

Concerning Hobbits is a two-minute tune originally composed by Canadian composer Howard Shore for Peter Jackson's 2001...
FILM

Hedwig’s Theme: magical mood cast by the celesta melody

Hedwig's Theme, also known as the main theme of all eight Harry Potter films, was the first piece written by John...
FILM

Gabriel's Oboe: soulful Morricone tune that soothes the Iguazu Falls

Gabriel's Oboe is a short instrumental piece written by Ennio Morricone for a key scene in Roland Joffé's period drama...
ORCHESTRA

Handel's Sarabande: obscure keyboard suite that found its iconic orchestration in Barry Lyndon movie

The sarabande is a fiery carnival dance that originated in the 16th century in Central America and then spread to Spain...
FILM

Dum Maro Dum: psychedelic Hindi lyrics in Western arrangement that influenced generations

Dum Maro Dum is a popular Hindi song written by Anand Bakshi and composed by Rahul Dev Burman for the 1971 Bollywood...
Nature Sounds

Classical music examples imitating bees and buzzing insects

The seemingly monotonous buzz that bees emit is a developed communicative function allowing these social insects to...
FILM

Symphonic scores by Erich Wolfgang Korngold established new standards in the film industry

Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austrian pianist and composer whose contribution to film music has actually set the...
Music Theory

Classic examples of the Phrygian mode through the music eras

From Middle Ages to modernity, Western music has been largely based on diatonic scales that organize seven notes into... 4 comments
FILM

The unique music garden of Toru Takemitsu

Widely considered to be the greatest composer in the classical music tradition in modern Japan, Toru Takemitsu merged...
FILM

Five tones of Spielberg's alien language

Close Encounters of the Third Kind—Steven Spielberg’s first and perhaps best attempt at sci-fi—was released in 1977 only...
FILM

Young Adam score captures the desolate landscape of the 50s Scotland

An adaptation of Scottish writer Alexander Trocchi's loosely autobiographical novel, Young Adam is a harsh portrait of a...
FILM

Instrumental simplicity of the quiet piano drama Breathe In

In the intimate story of a foreign exchange student who causes a deep and devastating rift in a close-knit upstate New...
Animation

Preserved tradition in the modern aesthetics of The Breadwinner score

The Breadwinner, directed by Nora Twomey, is an animated drama film based on Deborah Ellis’ award-winning novel that...
FILM

Accordion for Amélie was discovered by a lucky accident

Amélie is a 2001 French romantic comedy classic directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet that depicts a contemporary yet...
FILM

Full-method approach to the score for Shakespeare's play

The classic Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice had seen many adaptations, one of them a 2004 venture for the big...
FILM

Easy Living owes Billie Holiday for giving it voice

A tender ballad Easy Living has forthright lyrics that declare just how wonderful life can be when living for someone...
FILM

Sicario's desert pulsates in Jóhannsson's score

Sicario tells the story of an idealistic FBI agent Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) who is enlisted by a government official to...
FILM

Vintage synthesizers alleviate the Blade Runner sequel

Blade Runner 2049 is the long-anticipated sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 iconic film which defined a whole generation of...
FILM

Hero's colors come alive with silk violin strings

Hero, an undeniable martial-arts classic, is an epic collaboration between Zhang Yimou, perhaps the biggest name in...
FILM

Star Wars meets Baroque classics

The long-spanning Star Wars saga is embedded into our consciousness not only with its visual motifs but also its iconic...
FILM

Orlando's director sang the score's leitmotifs

Sally Potter’s film Orlando follows the life of an eponymous, time traveling, androgynous nobleman who transforms from a...
FILM

[H]ouse playlist is a remedy for everyone

American medical drama House, M.D. is not just an excellent guide to understanding actual diseases, but it also contains...
FILM

New pragmatic Bond score by Thomas Newman

Thomas Newman, having never written a proper action score before Skyfall, succeeded in updating Bond's aesthetic with a...
FILM

The classic Morricone flavor in Tarantino's spaghetti western

The soundtrack for Django Unchained contains both original and existing works, featuring songs Quentin Tarantino...
LUTE

Atmospheric collaboration of medieval and modern underground on Only Lovers Left Alive

For his post-modern tale of vampires trying to find purpose in their immortal lives, Jim Jarmusch employs his own group...
FILM

The Shape of Water bringing Alexandre Desplat his second Oscar trophy

Romantic fantasy film looks at the relationship between a mute woman who works at a government survey facility in...
FILM

Paul Reade: the man behind the fresh sound of Jane Eyre

Paul Reade was an English composer of last century. He worked on the BBC TV in the '60s, becoming the pianist and...
Violin

The timeless sadness of Shigeru Umebayashi

One of the most distinguished and fruitful composers of our time, Shigeru Umebayashi is credited with more than 50 films...
Violin

Anne Dudley's BAFTA winning work is a marriage of pop and the classical

Composer, arranger, producer and performer, Anne Dudley is a multi-talented musician whose work encompasses pop and...

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