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Looks like A REAL film music book. Fingers crossed.
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Looks like a great book. In other news, the word “enormity” is misused so often it’ll soon start to mean what many people thinks it means. No doubt a word you hear quite often.
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There's another coming out in February. Seems more "scholarly" for those who like that sort of approach. Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone: Fame and Legacy https://amzn.to/386xC7G by Franco Sciannameo Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone: Fame and Legacy provides new contextualized perspectives on Ennio Morricone’s position as a radical composer working at the cutting edge of music within the frame work of his cinematic compositions. The Italian composer has reached world fame as the creator of some 500 film scores and hundreds more arrangements for commercial recordings; however, Sciannameo argues that Morricone’s legacy must include his concert works, a catalogued list of more than 100 titles. By analyzing the composer’s formative years as a music practitioner and his transition into the world of composing for the screen, Franco Sciannameo reconsiders the best of Morricone’s popular compositions and reveals the challenging concert works which have been an intimate expression of Morricone’s lifelong creative season. Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone explores Morricone’s legacy, its nature, and its eventual impact on posterity.
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I don't want to listen to Ennios concert music. I don't want to read about it I don't want to even THINK ABOUT IT! Just the scores, m'am.
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I don't want to listen to Ennios concert music. I don't want to read about it I don't want to even THINK ABOUT IT! Just the scores, m'am. Me to. I managed to get all the way through "In His Own Words" but it was damned hard going in places, way above my understanding. This new book looks more up my street as it's all about his soundtracks and with 300 pages of lavish illustrations it sounds superb. I'll know better tomorrow when my copy arrives.
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I don't want to listen to Ennios concert music. I don't want to read about it I don't want to even THINK ABOUT IT! Just the scores, m'am. Me to. I managed to get all the way through "In His Own Words" but it was damned hard going in places, way above my understanding. This new book looks more up my street as it's all about his soundtracks and with 300 pages of lavish illustrations it sounds superb. I'll know better tomorrow when my copy arrives. I had a musical education and I don't know what the heck he's talking about half the time!
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Well the books arrived and it's massive, 12 inches x 9 inches and it's almost 2 inches thick and bloody heavy. All the interviews are on the first 33 pages, the print is reasonably small so there's a lot of information on a page. The soundtrack cover illustrations are excellent, some (For a Few Dollars More) fill the entire page, with a paragraph of information concerning the film/members of the orchestra etc. There is a wealth of information here, for instance, no -one knows who conducted Two Mules For Sister Sara, it was either Nicolai, Morricone or Wilson, but no-one knows for sure. It's not a cheap book, but I think it's worth the money, I suppose it's what people call a Coffee Table book, sadly I don't have a Coffee Table so it'll have to stay in my music room. Great book, easy to understand and a good companion piece to my "In His Own Words" and my Morricone Ear Book, now it's time to play the Maestro's favourite track, The Ecstasy of Gold.
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"There is a wealth of information here, for instance, no -one knows who conducted Two Mules For Sister Sara, it was either Nicolai, Morricone or Wilson, but no-one knows for sure." Yes we do chris. It was recorded in Rome as the choir is edda n gianna etc and Nicolai conducted. No way would Ennio and the whole orchestra n choir have gone to america to record in those days. The Stanley Wilson credit just muddied the waters over the years - his role was more music editor.
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"There is a wealth of information here, for instance, no -one knows who conducted Two Mules For Sister Sara, it was either Nicolai, Morricone or Wilson, but no-one knows for sure." Yes we do chris. It was recorded in Rome as the choir is edda n gianna etc and Nicolai conducted. No way would Ennio and the whole orchestra n choir have gone to america to record in those days. The Stanley Wilson credit just muddied the waters over the years - his role was more music editor. Thanks for clearing that point up Bill. I've always assumed it was either Ennio or Bruno, no-one else could possibly play music like that.
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Hi mate , Despite the Morricone moniker credit, Pretty much everything was conducted by nicolai in that period. As we know Ennio always preferred to be in the sound booth listening n checking and being the perfectionist he is. Gianna spagnulo: "Why are you asking who conducted? Bruno always conducted." There were a couple of exceptions, Ferrari and i think Samale did couple scores, no more. I will have to look it up. But in the case of 2 mules...if you listen to that angelic chorus, it is unquestionably Edda, Gianna et al.
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Hi mate , Despite the Morricone moniker credit, Pretty much everything was conducted by nicolai in that period. As we know Ennio always preferred to be in the sound booth listening n checking and being the perfectionist he is. Gianna spagnulo: "Why are you asking who conducted? Bruno always conducted." There were a couple of exceptions, Ferrari and i think Samale did couple scores, no more. I will have to look it up. But in the case of 2 mules...if you listen to that angelic chorus, it is unquestionably Edda, Gianna et al. I'm really looking forward to the expanded La La Land release of Two Mules, if the remastered tracks on the new 18 disc box set are anything to go by, it'll sound tremendous.
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Hi mate , Despite the Morricone moniker credit, Pretty much everything was conducted by nicolai in that period. As we know Ennio always preferred to be in the sound booth listening n checking and being the perfectionist he is. Gianna spagnulo: "Why are you asking who conducted? Bruno always conducted." There were a couple of exceptions, Ferrari and i think Samale did couple scores, no more. I will have to look it up. But in the case of 2 mules...if you listen to that angelic chorus, it is unquestionably Edda, Gianna et al. Franco Tamponi and Nicola Samale conducted about half a dozen scores each, Ferrara only a few though. As for 'Mules', the guitarist definitely sounds like Battisti D'amario (Morricone's main guitarist in most of his westerns). As well, the main theme features that weird electronic keyboard sound which Morricone used in quite a few late '60s/early '70s scores. I always thought it was a clavioline but according to organist Giorgio Carnini, who played the organ (both electronic and pipe organ) on virtually all of Morricone's soundtracks between 1968 and 1976, the sound was created on the Hammond X-66, Hammond's flagship model at the time which was more of a theater organ.
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Well the books arrived and it's massive, 12 inches x 9 inches and it's almost 2 inches thick and bloody heavy. All the interviews are on the first 33 pages, the print is reasonably small so there's a lot of information on a page. The soundtrack cover illustrations are excellent, some (For a Few Dollars More) fill the entire page, with a paragraph of information concerning the film/members of the orchestra etc. There is a wealth of information here, for instance, no -one knows who conducted Two Mules For Sister Sara, it was either Nicolai, Morricone or Wilson, but no-one knows for sure. It's not a cheap book, but I think it's worth the money, I suppose it's what people call a Coffee Table book, sadly I don't have a Coffee Table so it'll have to stay in my music room. Great book, easy to understand and a good companion piece to my "In His Own Words" and my Morricone Ear Book, now it's time to play the Maestro's favourite track, The Ecstasy of Gold. EoG was Ennio's favourite? Didn't know that. Are we saying of his westerns or of his work overall? I know what you mean about it though. I only clicked on it the other day, and had to listen to the whole thing. Impossible to listen to a soundbite. Once started it's all the way. Then I needed to listen to The Trio.
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Good stuff mikael. The Production Dates of the hammond x66 were from May 1967, so indoubtedly some stuff before that, eg the mocking organ bursts in Inseguimento in gbu probably were clavioline. I wonder what organ used on Desert of Tartars?
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Ah good info mikael! Yes, that grand slam intro definitely same instrument.
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Haven't seen GRACE but in CD it's pretty.lame.
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