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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3      General Discussion: The wordless chorus, but NOT...     1 2 3    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Oct 15, 2021 - 4:59 PM     By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member) When was there a chorus in a film score that sang..... 1)....No words (so THE OMEN is out, even though the words were Latin. Ditto for LOUISIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM, and RETURN OF THE SNIT) 2).....And no words ever! (which eliminates the cool one I was going to throw at you: SYBIL. The chorus sang "la, la-la, la-la...", until the end of the film. Which means I won't get to repeat the story that they then sang what Rosenman called "an AWFUL lyric by the Bergmans.") 3) AND THE FILM HAD NO a) sand b) biblical setting c) togas d) religiousness e) deities (sorry CLASH OF THE TITANS) f) Middle East (ditto, LAND OF THE PHAROAHS) g) heaven h) afterlife i) Mancini (Too easy; we're keeping this a horse race. So adios PINK PANTHER, LIFEFORCE... He even had an "Ooo" chorus in ME, NATALIE, for Kendall's sake!)    Posted:   Oct 15, 2021 - 5:00 PM     By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member) Other than the above, I've found AMITYVILLE HORROR THE ABYSS A.I. QUEST FOR FIRE    Posted:   Oct 15, 2021 - 5:00 PM     By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member) And no, Mr. Smarty-Boots, "Ooo" "Aaaah" "Ummm" and "Ooooh" are NOT words in this context.    Posted:   Oct 15, 2021 - 5:16 PM     By:   TacktheCobbler   (Member) I'm pretty sure Goldsmith's The Secret of NIMH had a wordless choir (while there is a song in the film, both iterations use soloists and don't utilize the choir).    Posted:   Oct 15, 2021 - 5:19 PM     By:   Howard L   (Member) Invaders From Mars (sandpit not "sand") Raintree County Superman Empire Of The Sun    Posted:   Oct 15, 2021 - 5:29 PM     By:   Jurassic T. Park   (Member) CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND JURASSIC PARK ATTACK OF THE CLONES    Posted:   Oct 15, 2021 - 5:31 PM     By:   BrenKel   (Member) Brainstorm Apollo 13    Posted:   Oct 15, 2021 - 5:48 PM     By:   danbeck   (Member) Robo-cooooop (2) ok, if this single word disqualifes it (even if theres plenty of wordless chorus on this one): Moonraker Willow Alien Resurrection plus Poltergeist and Pet Sematary (yes, both have after life but so does Amityville Horror)    Posted:   Oct 15, 2021 - 10:09 PM     By:   Ray Worley   (Member) Excluding Westerns ('cause sand), there are a ton of Morricone scores like that. I think MADDALENA and METTI, UNA SERA A CENA would qualify. It's hard to tell with some scores because sometimes in Morricone's scores there are vocal exclamations that sound like words but aren't, sometimes they may be Italian or another language, and sometimes they are in English but the chorus' heavy Italian accent makes it sound like "not words".    Posted:   Oct 15, 2021 - 11:47 PM     By:   Laurent-Watteau   (Member) Return of the Jedi (I'm thinking about the Emperor...) CE3K ("Barry's kidnapping") A lot of Danny Elfman scores with his wordless female choruses.    Posted:   Oct 16, 2021 - 10:31 AM     By:   RonBurbella   (Member) Just a couple off the top of my head. Maybe you folks who are "Too OLD for FSM" will chime in. Two Oscar-nominated Golden Age scores that immediately come to my senior citizen mind (and two of my personal favorites) are below. Be aware, the re-recordings faced a somewhat difficult artistic choice: --------(1) present the music/chorus exactly as used in the film, or --------(2) present the music/chorus as the composer originally intended, but then revised to (1). N.B.: I do appreciate the CD producers' very sincere intention of presenting film music as the composer originally intended and then later had to yield to the director and modify the score. But when you have heard a piece of music in the film many, many times over the years and every single note is deeply ingrained in your "musical memory," it puts you off a little bit on first listen when you hear something slightly different ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (Miklos Rozsa) (1940) - especially FLIGHT OF THE DJINN --------(1) Elmer Bernstein conducted (on FilmMusic Collection & Warner Bros. LP and FSM Box Set CD reissue) --------(2) Nic Raine / Tadlow (as composed originally intended - chorus comes in earlier) --------(3) Criterion Collection DVD has the isolated music track with even a different (third) version of this And the FINALE as Sabu waves goodbye from the flying carpet is very movingly well done. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LOST HORIZON (Dimitri Tiomkin) (1937) - many spots in the score --------(1) OST (from acetates, as released by BYU) --------(2) Suite as re-recorded by Charles Gerhardt/NPO (as the composer originally intended) Ron Burbella    Posted:   Oct 16, 2021 - 10:44 AM     By:   James MacMillan   (Member) MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY.    Posted:   Oct 16, 2021 - 11:05 AM     By:   Solium   (Member) I'm pretty sure Goldsmith's The Secret of NIMH had a wordless choir (while there is a song in the film, both iterations use soloists and don't utilize the choir). Indeed, many of the cues have wordless choir. Main Title The Sentry Reel / Story Of NIMH The House Raising    Posted:   Oct 16, 2021 - 11:06 AM     By:   Solium   (Member) Don't a lot of Danny Elfman scores have that "La La La" choirs sound? 2).....And no words ever! (which eliminates the cool one I was going to throw at you: SYBIL. The chorus sang "la, la-la, la-la...", until the end of the film. Which means I won't get to repeat the story that they then sang what Rosenman called "an AWFUL lyric by the Bergmans.") Edit: So "La" is a word, and don't count?    Posted:   Oct 16, 2021 - 11:53 AM     By:   Mike Petersen   (Member) EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - City in the Clouds    Posted:   Oct 16, 2021 - 12:03 PM     By:   MarkS   (Member) Koyaanisqatsi. Not sure if I spelled that right, but I can't be bothered to look it up, so piss off.    Posted:   Oct 16, 2021 - 1:53 PM     By:   Grack21   (Member) Hmm the only choir I remember in Attack Of The Clones is when they play Duel of The Fates, so that would definitely not count either way.    Posted:   Oct 16, 2021 - 2:08 PM     By:   William R.   (Member) I believe ROBOCOP 2 and RUDY both meet the qualifications, except that they both use a small vocal group and not a full chorus.    Posted:   Oct 16, 2021 - 4:39 PM     By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member) Koyaanisqatsi. Not sure if I spelled that right, but I can't be bothered to look it up, so piss off. But they say "Koyaanisqatsi," which is a real word. So no go.    Posted:   Oct 16, 2021 - 4:41 PM     By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member) Ooo! THE RED HOUSE! https://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.7847/.f     General Discussion: The wordless chorus, but NOT...    < 1 2 3  > >>  Go to page:  1 2 3   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3

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