Famous Scores and Compositions
Famous Scores and Compositions
#0Famous Scores and Compositions
Posted: 3/13/06 at 11:13am
Can someone list the titles and composers of some works that you might hear at the Oscars?
What I am looking for are those orchestra scores that everyone recognizes but doesn't know what it is from nor who wrote it because it's used in several movies and every so often at the Oscars or other award shows.
I'm told some of these "orchestrations" I am looking for are from movies and are re-used very often in other movies, movie trailers, commercials, and television shows. And some of the orchestrations were composed by classical artists such as Beethoveen, Vivaldi, Verdi, etc.
THANKS!
--Aristotle
#1re: Famous Scores and Compositions
Posted: 3/13/06 at 11:19am
Carmina Burana (Orff) is SO overused in movie trailers it isn't even funny. Any time there is a period action flick with lots of mud and horses... Carmina Burana.
Also Ennio Morricone's cues from "The Mission" are played quite a lot.
Oh, and Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" has been used in several films and trailers. (The Elephant Man "death scene" as well as "Platoon"). Great "sad" music.
EDIT: I thought of another one from "back in the day." Max Steiner's recognizable theme for "Now Voyager" with Bette Davis was recycled in something like EIGHT films after that. You can hear it several times in that film, particularly at the end when Davis and Paul Henried exchange cigs and say, "Don't lets ask for the moon," etc. A beautiful melody, but used several times in other films and trailers of the '40s and '50s.
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#2re: Famous Scores and Compositions
Posted: 3/13/06 at 11:41am
YES! Carmina Burana was one of the ones I was looking for!! THANKS!
Keep 'em comin'!
--Aristotle
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Posted: 3/13/06 at 12:00pmA couple of movies whose orchestral score gets recycled all the time are James Horner's score for Glory and Michael Kamen's score for Robin Hood: Prince of Theives. You will hear the orchestral music from both of these movies all the time as background to video montages, previews, trailers, etc.
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Posted: 3/13/06 at 3:48pmAny Tim Burton movie trailer can be depended upon to recycle music from BEETLEJUICE or NIGHTMARE BEFORE XMAS.
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Posted: 3/13/06 at 6:59pm
the DRAGONHEART score by randy edelman is DEFINITELY one you are looking for. it's been used on the oscar show and for countless trailers.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000002P19/qid=1142293528/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-7679665-7920865?s=music&v=glance&n=5174
listen to track 8 Draco, which has a bit of the theme.
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Posted: 3/13/06 at 7:04pm
this one also drove me crazy for a couple of YEARS ... music that was used in the BEAUTIFUL MIND trailer ... i FINALLY found out it's from the DEEP BLUE SEA score by trevor rabin.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000K1ET/qid=1142294554/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/002-7679665-7920865?s=music&v=glance&n=5174
listen to track 1 Aftermath to hear the theme.
i used this music to good effect (if i do say so myself! ha) in my movie spoof BROKEWIND MOUNTAIN.
oh, here's where i was able to identify the music from the BM trailer ... http://www.soundtrack.net/trailers/
great site! you should find lots of familiar stuff here 
#7re: Famous Scores and Compositions
Posted: 3/13/06 at 7:20pm
THE NATURAL by randy newman
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000002L6A/qid=1142295283/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7679665-7920865?s=music&v=glance&n=5174
listen to track 5 Knock the Cover Off the Ball
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Posted: 3/13/06 at 7:26pm
FORREST GUMP by alan silvestri
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000002AS1/qid=1142295809/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/002-7679665-7920865?s=music&v=glance&n=5174
listen to track 4 Run Forrest Run
ok, i'll shut up now ...
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