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I'm not talking just about scores for films set around water, but scores that actually audibly reflect the qualities of water. Two come to mind for me:
Deep Blue Sea:
I'm not familiar with the names of all the instruments or synthesizer effects used, but throughout Trevor Rabin's score you can hear what sounds like water dripping and echoing within a confined place, as well as what sound like the plaintive underwater cries of whales in tracks like "Hunting in Packs" and "Shark Side".
Thunderball:
The swirling harps in tracks like "Bond Meets Domino" remind me of the movement of water rippling, and the gradually descending notes there and in other parts of the score make me think of something falling slowly through water to the bottom. In fact, large parts of Barry's score seem to luxuriate in a slower pace reflective of how people move underwater or slowly lapping waves.
So what other scores can you think of that contain tracks that mimic the sounds or motion of water?
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Carter Burwell's Blair Witch 2 score uses water as percussion
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Off the top of my head, Tango, the one that springs to mind is Herrmann's BENEATH THE 12-MILE REEF. Okay, so it IS set in the water, so it's an obvious example, but the richly evocative score is a huge asset. Harp glissandos and appropriately turbulent low-growling tubas for the ocean floor. Herrmann was great at that. MYSTERIOUS ISLAND is another.
Improvising here, so please forgive the ramble - Goldsmith's ISLANDS IN THE STREAM. There's a kind of wave-like roll to some of it, which was probably inspired by one of Britten's "Sea Interludes".
Here's a not-so-obvious one - the unusual percussion effects and "dripping" sounds in Goldsmith's CHINATOWN. Water is one of the major themes in the Polanski movie, and Goldsmith evokes the subtext in the way mentioned. I only know that because I read it in a book.
Be prepared for an onslought of one-line replies with the title of movies that have water in them and the composers' names!
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See? But you forgot to mention JNH, mastadge!
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WIND - Basil Poledouris
TITANIC - James Horner
THE LAST AIRBENDER - James Newton Howard (yes, I know this is air, but there is water too!)
MAGIC IN THE WATER - David Schwartz
THE ABYSS - Alan Silvestri
(Parts of) THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS - Randy Edelman + Trevor Jones
AQUAMARINE - David Hirschfelder
SPLASH - Lee Holdridge
THE BOUNTY - Vangelis
FLIPPER - Joel McNeely
JAWS - John Williams (and the other JAWS movies)
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Ennio Morricone's A PURE FORMALITY.
Masterpiece!
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bobbengan
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SPLASH - Lee Holdridge
Yup! Big time! One of my faves. The unused main and end titles cues in particular evoke the rapture of being underwater perfectly. I'd also throw in his theme from THE GREAT WHALES, which was rerecorded on his "Film Music of Lee Holdridge" compilation and is truly gorgeous.
Also, John Scott's 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA and JULES VERNE ADVENTURES (plus a large handful of his COUSTEAU scores, i.e. "Australia" and "Parc Oceanique"), Christopher Gordon's MOBY DICK (the main theme is one of the best evocations of the ocean's grandeur in music history in my opinion), the title theme from Harry Manfredini's DEEP STAR SIX, Debney's SEAQUEST DSV (that old Varese album is a great listen), and finally, CHristopher Gunning's fantastic WHEN THE WHALES CAME.
Among dozens more of course...
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