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I feel like I could listen to Rota's score all day. The music somehow lives with the characters and permeates the world of the film, rather than being applied on top of it. Melodies from the score become source and vice versa. The music conveys so much – empathy, tradition, dread, and ultimately the distant echoes of empathy buried long ago.
No question, the music for the first two Godfathers works in a way few scores acheive.
I think the key is that Coppola imparted his operatic approach to Rota and the other musicians.
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One bummer is that if someone is searching for these historical Pennino contributions in archives now, chances are they might not be able to find these remasters directly. There is no word "Mama" in Naples. Neither anywhere else in Italy, but it is a Neapolitan song after all. It was correctly spelled as "Mamma" on the original soundtrack in 1974... And in the movie credits. And on all of Francesco's and Carmine's vinyls, Francis' wine memorabilia, the score guide, the library of congress, theater production posters, sheet music, etc. Not sure if the misspelling was intentional for some copyright reasons, maybe. Since I have seen LLL misspell Apollonia as Appolonia somewhere else, it might have just been an oversight.
Re: Senza Mamma
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