Music Scores on DVDs Track Lists

from Roman Deppe

A number of DVDs feature the music score isolated on a separate audio track... and a number of soundtrack fans have made lists of the music these releases have. Holy cow, they're like special CD releases when you think about it!

Roman adds about The Dark Crystal: I made up all Cue-Names by myself as the cues are reportedly mostly pretty different to the tracks on the original LP release (which I never held in my hands) - I hope these names give the best overview of where the music in the movie plays.

It may also be added that many cues are just cut off (due to the re-editing of the movie) or faded out and in again. In addition to that sometimes the sound quality isn't absolutely perfect. So, folks, before you buy the DVD only for the score: Be warned, you may be disappointed! But anyhow the score is wonderful and worth listening on its own.

Music Composed & Conducted by Trevor Jones

1)Main Titles/The Ritual 4.54

2) Jen's Flute 0.55

3) Homecoming 0.39

4) Two Deaths of one Being 3.20

5) The Challenge 2.58

6) Chamberlain has lost 1.22

7) Crystal calls 0.53

8) Garthims/Jen's Journey 2.30

9) Augrah's Planetarium 1.21

10) Three splinters 0.22

11) Garthims attack/Mystics start their journey 2.26

12) Brief Glimpse 0.15

13) Kira 2.12

14) Dinner with Skekses 2.27

15) "That's not a Gelfling!" 0.28

16) Bats/Kira's Lullaby/Bat Shot 2.24

17) Podling Dance 2.29

18) Garthim Invasion Part 1 1.33

19) Garthim Invasion Part 2 0.15

20) Night Falls 1.38

21) Ruins 2.13

22) Flight from Chamberlain/Landstriders 1.48

23) Ride on the Landstriders/Doctor's Torture Chamber 2.40

24) Young and Old again/Battle with Garthims 4.19

25) In the Caverns/Chamberlain attacks 1.41

26) Kira and the Skekses 1.00

27) Weeping Fitzgigg 1.10

28) The Doctor's End 1.07

29) Suns gather 0.28

30) Garthims' Nest 2.14

31) The Dark Crystal 1.31

32) Kira's Sacrifice/Crystal Healed/Prophecy Fullfilled 11.18

33) A new World - End Titles 4.53

Total: 72.56

Music by Jerry Goldsmith

This list is SOLELY the cues you can hear on the DVD from the movie that are NOT on the CD:

1) Battle For Humanptra 1:22

2) Escape From Hamunaptra / Cairo 3 Years Later 1:03

3) Ladder Artist 0:45

4) The Map In The Key 0:37

5) Deal 0:59

6) Love Theme 1:14 (already on the Soundtrack, but not in this isolated, single statement)

7) Then There Was Light 0:30

8) In The Crypt 1:56

9) Acid Face Test 0:27

10) Broken Glass 0:09

11) A Place Like Her In A World Like This 0:51

12) Evil Surrounds The Place 0:46

13) First Plague / Mummy Awakens / Scream Contest 4:56

14) Beni Meets Imhotep 1:07

15) Gods And Slaves 1:21

16) Thank You For Your Eyes 1:14

17) Serious Trouble 0:58

18) Sun Eclipse 0:29

19) Mummy Stalks 0:25

20) Beni Escapes / Fly Plague 0:53

21) Sacred Jars 0:18

22) Creepy Sand 1:22

23) Sandstorm Pursuit 3:13

24) End Of A True Soldier 1:11

25) Hamunaptra Collapses (second half of it is featured on the Soundtrack in The Sand Volcano) 1:58

26) End Titles 8:06 (no new material in here)

Total : 38:21 (including End Titles)

Music by Don Davis

1) Main Titles / Trinity Infinity (Film Version) 6:44

2) Transition A / Song by Rob Zombie 3:59

3) Pursuit 3:59

4) Choice / Operation 3:12

5) Taking The Pill 3:28

6) The Nebuchadnezzar 1:40

7) The Real World And The Matrix 3:57

8) Neo's Awakening 1:30

9) Jiu-Jitzu Loading And Trainig Fight 2:30

10) Apt Pupil 1:04

11) First Jump 1:23

12) Trinity Looks At Neo 0:33

13) Transition B / Clubbed To Death / Explanations 4:39

14) Coffee Talk 0:59

15) Dinner With Agent Smith 1:46

16) Transition C / Song 0:50

17) Off To See The Oracle 2:54

18) There Is No Spoon 1:03

19) Cookie? 1:23

20) The Art Mix 1:41

21) Looking For A Way Out / Betrayal / Heroes Unplugged / Have Fear,

Agent Smith Is Here / To The Rescue 10:38

22) A Virus (previously released on the Varese CD) / MIX THE RAT 3:11

23) Spybreak / Song by Propellerheads 2:13

24) Elevator Travel 0:59

25) Pilot Program 0:40

26) Angry Agent Smith 0:39

27) Subway Fight 2:12

28) Threat Mix 3:15

29) They Always Come Back - Neo's Futile Escape 4:11

Total: 65:10 (excluding some isolated Songs without Transitions, END CREDITS are songs, so I didn't include them).

Roman adds:

Also, the transitions are just some seconds long, but then again Davis re-arranged some parts of the here included songs to fit certain scenes or hit specific persons within the pictures. So, all in all there should be around 60 minutes "pure" and new Davis music.

It should be said however, that most of the music doesn't offer very much to listen to isolated on CD. It's mostly very low and slow music, brooding in the background, also the asian-styled-kodo-music seems a little bit out of place at times. But at the end you get around 15 minutes pure action music, which ranks among the most aggressive music in years.

Oh, and sorry for the strange track-titles. I made them all up and tried to be original (how pathetic). Did anyone get the Anagram-titles? (Davis made that up in the first place, look at the Varese CD!).

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