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May 4, 2014 - 2:37 PM
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MusicMad
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NINFA PLEBEA (THE NYMPH), from 1995/96ish. Beautiful overlapping strings, sunny optimism, jaunty faux-classical mimimalism, achingly romantic themes on violin, the touching innocence of what sounds like a recorder, darkly romantic passages spelling possible tragedy, an outrageous tango and a few blasts of downright violent horror.
Any thoughts on this one from the Morricone experts? Is it a highly-regarded work within his ouvre? Do YOU like it? Have you even got it? (etc)
I'm no expert ... I just have a lot of his scores and, yes, Ninfa Plebea (The Nymph) (1996) is in my collection. A lovely score which, on another day, may have been in my top 28.
Mitch
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May 9, 2014 - 5:00 PM
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Tall Guy
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Mitch - thank you for keeping track!
Do you also have a list of how many votes each of those scores has? Or a list of the scores who have at least two or three votes?
Ha! Mitch won't be able to resist!
Yes, I can ...
... well, maybe not 
Nothing scientific ... I merely printed my Windows Explorer list of EM titles and placed red ticks against chosen titles ... looking for titles I have not got! Whether I add these 9 or 10 titles to my collection is another matter.
As for titles with two or three votes ... far too many to list. I named the most popular titles and looked at titles with no nominations - see postings above.
On a more serious note, if 178 titles have been put forward, that means there are over SIX possible lists of 28 completely different titles with no duplications, chosen by people who care enough to rank them. ...
Sorry, Tall Guy, but I'm not sure I agree with your logic. I accept that there may be (over) SIX possible lists of 28 completely different titles with no duplications but this is not certain.
I struggle to recall the maths to prove this but a review of the votes shows this is not so. Okay, not everyone nominated 28 titles but I collated 22 replies and of these 15 choose C'Era Una Volta Il West (Once Upon a Time in the West) ... which means that of the other 7 correspondents you would need 5 to have totally different lists in order to meet your six distinct lists - highly unlikely.
Or have I misunderstood the point you were making?
Mitch
I was merely struck by the wide-ranging choices that people had made, and that in a relatively short number of replies. Fewer than 20 people provided full lists of 28, and a handful found that to be beyond them for one reason or another, yet it generated enough different titles for six such lists. I think my operative word would be "possible"!
If it shows anything, perhaps it's that Morricone's work is to an astonishingly high standard throughout his career, so that there may be little actual difference between the enjoyment one gets from a favourite and from a less-liked score. I was listening to playlists of "lounge" Morricone today - Mondo, Aromatico, that kind of thing - and whilst the music is by and large less to my liking than most of the titles in my top 28 list, I'd rather listen to it than most other composers' work. I'm building up to an answer to the current "how important is melody?" thread, and you can bet that Morricone's name will feature heavily in that.
You also need to bear in mind that it took me three goes to pass the Quantitative Methods exam that formed part of my insurance qualification!
C
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May 9, 2014 - 5:17 PM
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Ray Worley
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When I first saw this thread I simply thought overkill. It was no problem coming up with 28 for me but I thought this would be a short thread. I am so impressed on how many did come up with 28 and without a whole lot of soul searching. He has indeed more of a following than I anticipated. There are not many other composers that such a list could readily be coughed up. Like the Oscars, I think if you ask a few days later the outcome would be different but the consensus here is there is a lot to this composer, and like all the other composers, there is a lot of his music that doesn't get the attention it deserves.
Agreed! Morricone's output is so vast and varied, almost any advocate of a particular style of music could find many scores to admire.
If you like:
-lush, purely orchestral scores full of beautiful melody and no dissonance or "challenging" music - check
-wildly experimental scores full of dissonance and complex composition - check
-hard driving action scores - check
-textural sound landscapes - check
- light "pop" scores with pleasing tunes - check
-comedy scores with catchy tunes and weird orchestrations and vocals – check
And so on…
I think this is also why folks who are relatively new to Morricone may have trouble exploring his work. If you discovered him through his “giallo” scores for instance, and were looking for more creepy, dissonant horror music and got a hold of METTI UNA CERA A SENA or CINEMA PARADISO, you might think: “what’s this Muzak crap?” (Not that I would ever characterize it that way…but someone looking for something different might). Conversely, if you want orchestral melodies and you stumble across his experimental stuff you might be appalled.
Those of us who have been following him since he first burst into our consciousness with A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS or earlier have grown to love all his styles (or at least appreciate them).
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you may like the score but you aint half way yet!
you got 2 mules in twice at 9 and 12 ha ha!
* *"Two Mules for Sister Sara"*
* *"Veruschka"*
* *"Navajo Joe"*
* *"Two Mules for Sister Sara"*
That said id probably sneak GBU in about 3 times and hope nobody noticed!!
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Oh, go on then.
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
L'Assoluto Naturale
For A Few Dollars More
Once Upon A Time In The West
Navajo Joe
The Thing
A Fistful of Dollars
Marco Polo
La Califfa
Il Mercenario
Giu La Testa
Cosi Come Sei
Incontro
Mettu Una Cera A Cena
Cosa Avete Fatto A Solange?
I Malamondo
Una Lucertola Con La Pelle Di Donna
Citta Violenta
Battle of Algiers
Guns For San Sebastian
The Untouchables
Days of Heaven
The Mission
Theorem
La Tarantola Dal Ventre Nero
Le Casse
Faccia a Faccia
Quiemada
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Looking for a tip to keep an easy track of some Morricone releases i may have skipped: is there a website featuring a chronological release list?
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Looking for a tip to keep an easy track of some Morricone releases i may have skipped: is there a website featuring a chronological release list?
Do you mean like this?
http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/catalog/composerdiscography.php?composerid=51
No, i already tried that and -- as an example -- with that sorting list the Beat Record edition of UNA LUCERTOLA CON LA PELLE DI DONNA is listed in 1971 and not 2014. Maybe i should have been more specific : i'm looking for a list featuring the year of the soundtrack release, not the film release. Thanks anyway! 
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