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Apr 15, 2024 · Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson’s entire score to the 2014 Stephen Hawking biopic, The Theory of Everything, is one of the most peaceful film soundtracks ever written. A serene beauty lies in its simplicity, a stripped-back orchestration that leaves enough space to ponder the universe between each note.
Aug 27, 2024 · From John Williams’ Harry Potter to Ennio Morricone’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, these are the 50 film soundtracks you voted for as the greatest of all time. Music can make or break a movie. And in a few special cases, it can jump out of the silver screen and take on a life of its own.
- Requiem for a Dream – Clint Mansell (2000) The John Williams to Darren Aronofsky’s Steven Spielberg, British composer Mansell reflects the doomed stories of the psychological drama with this haunting minimalist score.
- Gladiator – Hans Zimmer (2000) From its Wagnerian anthems of war to Lisa Gerrard’s meditative vocal lines, Hans Zimmer and Gerrard’s stunning soundtrack was instrumental to the success of Ridley Scott’s historical epic – towering colosseums, armour-clad gladiators and all.
- Harry Potter – John Williams, Patrick Doyle, Nicholas Hooper, Alexandre Desplat (2001-2011) Four composers worked their magic when composing for the wondrous world of Harry Potter.
- Lord of the Rings – Howard Shore (2001-2003) As our eye keenly followed one hobbit across three movies and an array of vast New Zealand landscapes, as he sought to destroy the One Ring, Howard Shore matched every moment of the journey with sweeping, epic and heart-wrenching music.
Apr 3, 2024 · The best composers are able to use their soundtrack in tandem with the images on screen to make you feel what they want you to feel. In this post, we’ve compiled a list of 15 of the greatest film composers who have written some unforgettable scores over their lifetime. Let’s jump in.
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- Laura
- The Hours
- Sunset Boulevard
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- On The Waterfront
- On Golden Pond
- High Noon
- Out of Africa
- Ben-Hur
- How The West Was Won
A singularly haunting score by David Raskin, Laurais largely built around variations of the title song, which has an evocative lyric by Johnny Mercer. In the song, Laura is the ultimate, untouchable object of desire; in the movie she is a murdered woman with whom a police detective played by Dana Andrews becomes obsessed. So with the mix of love, s...
There couldn’t have been a better choice than Philip Glass to score an intense, psychological film about three women linked in different decades by the works of Virginia Woolf. All the hypnotic Glass trademarks are here and the circular nature of Glass’ music underlines the unseen connections between the characters, to alternately soothing and chil...
The wonder of Franz Waxman’s soundtrack to Sunset Boulevardwas that it took you inside Norma Desmond’s head, which was a cluttered place indeed. Accordingly, the score might be called one of the first mash-ups, containing snippets of jazz and popular song, along with more haunting themes that signify Norma’s insanity. Film scholars have pored over ...
A Streetcar Named Desire was one of the first mainstream films ever to have a fully jazz-based film score, as befits its New Orleans setting. But Pennsylvania-born composer Alex North was a true musical eclectic, who also studied with Aaron Copland and wrote symphonies; he famously wrote a score for 2001: A Space Odysseythat Stanley Kubrick never u...
On the Waterfront was Leonard Bernstein’s only proper movie score, not counting the famous musicals (West Side Story, Candide) that were adapted to film. Though now recognized as one of the great soundtracks, it proved a bit controversial at the time, since Bernstein envisioned the music as a crucial part of story development, a device that would i...
Jazz-associated pianist Dave Grusin is one of the more celebrated film composers of the modern era – for starters, all the non-Paul Simon music in The Graduate was his – and also the owner of the GRP label. Combining jazz, pop and New Age elements, his Golden Pondscore captures both the rustic New England setting of the film, and the bittersweet st...
The plot of High Noonbuilds slowly to its climactic gun battle, and Dimitri Tomkin’s film score is all dramatic tension, with recurring themes including a horse’s advancing hooves and the ominous melody of the title tune. With a vocal performed by Tex Ritter in the movie, the song’s percussive horse-hoof sound was actually made by a Hammond Novacho...
This was one of the later movie scores by the English composer John Barry, who’s forever associated with his James Bond soundtracks. Though a short score (only covering a half-hour of the film) it contains some of Barry’s prettiest and most melodically grabbing themes. It won Barry his second-to-last Oscar for Best Original Score (he’d win again in...
The Biblical epic Ben-Hur got a suitably grand score from Miklos Rozsa; with two-and-a-half hours of music, it was the longest score used in a film at that time. Everything about the score is larger than life, from its series of fanfares to the sweeping chariot race to the heavenly church organ that accompanies the appearance of Jesus onscreen. The...
Alfred Newman has one of the longest-running careers as a film composer, ranging from Charlie Chaplin films in the 1930s to his final project, Airport, in 1970. His score for the epic Western How the West Was Wonwas an unusual one, as it used country and folk tunes and in grand orchestral arrangements. One of the key moments was an adaptation of “G...
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Greatest Movie Soundtracks. 1. Blade Runner (Vangelis) Photograph: Time Out/East West. With its shimmering synth washes, sultry sax and snatches of otherworldly melodies, Vangelis’s score...
