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There is Psycho with only strings.
There is The Firm with only piano.
Are there any film scores that use ONLY percussion? (NOT scores with extended persuccion passages)
(or couse tuned percussion can also be included - marimba, vibraphone etc.)
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Wasn't Birdman all-percussion?
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Indeed! Jerry Goldsmith wrote a score for only percussion instruments: Seven Days in May.
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.7974/.f
"tour-de-force for impressive array of both melodic & non-melodic percussion, including two pianos, vibraphone, marimba, bass marimba, xylophone, multiple snare drums, tympani, chimes. Inventive score offers melodic motifs for left-hand piano, marimba, xylophone, balances with stark rhythms for snares, tympani."
Yavar
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"Stalag 17" only had timpani and snare, as I recall.
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There is Psycho with only strings.
There is The Firm with only piano.
Are there any film scores that use ONLY percussion?
Yes.
Spanish director Carlos Saura's 1965 La caza (The Hunt) was scored by Luis de Pablo for percussion only.
Plus there are other film scores for solo piano as well, such as Andre Previn's Long Day's Journey Into Night and David Shire's The Conversation. [Louis Malle's 1963 Le feu follet (The Fire Within) utilizes solo piano music by Satie]
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Piano is considered a percussion instrument so you’ve answered your own question. 
well, it's officially a keyboard instrument (as presented in orchestration manuals too) but it can be used as percussion.
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Thanks for all your suggestions, I'll look them up.
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Indeed! Jerry Goldsmith wrote a score for only percussion instruments: Seven Days in May.
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.7974/.f
"tour-de-force for impressive array of both melodic & non-melodic percussion, including two pianos, vibraphone, marimba, bass marimba, xylophone, multiple snare drums, tympani, chimes. Inventive score offers melodic motifs for left-hand piano, marimba, xylophone, balances with stark rhythms for snares, tympani."
Yavar
Strange, I've watched this film recently but I didn't remember the score at all!
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Strange, I've watched this film recently but I didn't remember the score at all!
That may be because there's only about 11-12 min of score in the entire movie.
Yavar
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"It's My Party" featured a piano-only score from Basil Poledouris. Replaced by a score by two guys on some DVD release (I don't know what the deal is there; was that the original score before Basil?).
William Goldenstein did a piano-only replacement score for the TV movie "A Talent For Murder". I still have yet to find out who the original composer is. His replacement score is the current "winner" for fastest-known replacement score: SEVEN HOURS. Yes, there is always time to replace a score.
Along a similar line, I recall Shirley Walker saying she scored something with a solo tuba.
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Wasn't Birdman all-percussion?
Yes, and that's precisely the reason I refuse to buy it, although I loved the movie.
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What were the score pieces in WHIPLASH? Weren't they all-percussive?
I haven't seen this but wouldn't these be like source music?
I'm talking about underscore.
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