This soundtrack marked the feature debut of Neal Hefti, best-known today for his memorable TV themes to Batman and The Odd Couple. Hefti made a lasting mark in the Mancini with this chock-full of delightful pop confections and irresistible melodies.
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Carlo Rustichelli was the author of the "Brancaleone March", a true iconic hymn introduced by "Branca Branca Branca Leon Leon Leon" and a whistle and is the heart of the background music, which the author reprises with orchestral versions .
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The music of Bacalov has exotic Afro-Cuban patterns, including vibraphones, double basses, congas, percussion of all kinds, enigmatic flutes and elegant jazz vocalisms delivered by the unmistakable voice of Nora Orlandi.
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Michel Legrand won the 1971 Academy Award for best score for this work and his main theme not only became a Top 40 instrumental hit, but was also transformed, with lyrics added by Alan and Marilyn Bergman, into a song, "The Summer Knows".
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Benjamin Frankel, born in London, was a hugely prolific composer of film scores. The themes are both immediately striking yet also repay repeated listening, and the instrumentation is marvellous, evoking in an extremely subtle way the Mexican setting.
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The score begins with “The Dream,” which introduces the powerful and percussive main title. It’s still impressive stuff, full of beefy brass chords underpinning an elegant string melody, pulsating electronic percussion ideas.
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The main theme features low, jazzy pianos offset against funky bass flutes, electric guitars, growling brass, and a rock drum kit percussion section, before becoming more elegiac and elegant through the inclusion of an operatic female soprano vocal.
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The fact that Morricone could write such a haunting, evocative, legendary theme is astonishing; the simple orchestration for oboe, strings, and harpsichord is sublime, capturing perfectly the essence of the gentle Father Gabriel with his beautiful music.
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Michael Small’s score is characteristic – he shuns broad melodies and transcendent leitmotifs in favor of more concise figures and introspective musical collectives to create a piercing psychological intensity through a strings-heavy ensemble.
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“Jealous Lover” is the piece of music played by a restaurant pianist upon Fran’s entrance. The melody was renamed as “Theme from The Apartment” and became a hit tune under that title.
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Here is a soundtrack's music cue from "Lo Straniero", the 1967 film by Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti with Marcello Mastroianni. The music was composed by Piero Piccioni with Bruno Nicolai conducting the orchestra and Edda Dell'Orso lending her voice to vocals.
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This is one of Ennio Morricone's more evocative scores. The suspense music on the border of the avant-garde experiments (harps with echoes) is alternated to a nostalgic motif with the voice of Edda Dell'Orso. We can listen here the Main Theme and Dal Mare.
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Armando Trovaioli was a fundamental composer in Italian comedy, where he influenced in a versatile way in agile and fun melodies, as well as in popular music and in the creation of beautiful melodies, within the genre of Commedia all'italiana films.
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Evocative, beautiful and unforgettable soundtrack, dominated by two main themes: the tense, repetitive crime motif and the warm love theme, which has a sad yet pastoral quality that contrasts effectively with the darkness of the storyline.
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Dave Grusin is a pianist, keyboardist, arranger, record producer and film composer. Throughout his career, Grusin has written and arranged scores for more than 50 movies and television shows. The main theme is "Jo Ann song".
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Piero Piccioni has created above all '' easy listening '' music such as foxtrot, band music, waltzes and other fashion music in the film era as opposed to serious music for large orchestra which describes the whole historical and political aspect of the story.
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Artie Kane's disco music in the movie would normally be intended for fun and relaxation, but in this soundtrack there is a dangerous, menacing tone to it that matches the film's drama and suspense. Main Theme by Toots Thielemans.
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Shire provides a pervasive, fat bass womp, womp, womp ostinato with weight and heft courtesy of angry tuba, snarling trombones, electric bass and timpani; the ceiling comes from screeching reeds, explosive trumpets, tinkling piano and feverish percussion.
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For eight years, Gianfranco Intra studied the piano and he successfully finished the conducting course at the Milan Conservatory. In this film Carmen Villani sings "A tomorrow for us", with music by Gianfranco Intra and lyrics by Federico Monti Arduini.
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This soundtrack features all of the imagination, melody and energy for which Goldsmith is beloved. It also introduces elements of '60s "spy" cool which Goldsmith would further explore in U.N.C.L.E., the Flint movies and related projects.
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The main theme is a deeply melancholic and sad composition, but at the same time calm and beautiful, that evokes a world that disappeared in North America long ago. A world led by our imagination and by the magic of cinema. In a certain way, our world.
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Umiliani is the quintessential artist par excellence: pianist, arranger and conductor. His method is always the same: read the film's script first, consult with the director, and depending on the plot and location, compose with the piano in the studio.
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Miklós Rózsa expertly devised themes for each character and manipulating them as the mystery unfolds. Even in its darker moments, Rózsa's touch is undeniably melodramatic in his trademark layered strings and woodwinds solos.
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This soundtrack was composed by Piero Piccioni, jazz musician, composer of music for over 300 films and television dramas and music for radio, ballet and orchestra. He composed the music for thirteen of the seventeen films by Francesco Rosi.
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Riz Ortolani composed the soundtrack of the first series and Ennio Morricone scored from the second to the last season. Ortolani found the correct style for the series and the themes "Titoli" (Titles) y "Cattedrale di Piombo" (Lead Cathedral) stand out.
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John Williams’ personal favourite, this exquisitely wrought delight combines everything that is great about his music: emotional sincerity, memorable thematic ideas and a mastery of orchestral tone that takes the breath away.
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The main title theme is a quite dreamy-sounding piece for acoustic guitar, lilting strings, percussion, and a vocal performance by Maurizio Graf and angelic choir singing the name ‘angel face’. In “The Slaughter” Morricone breaks out his solo trumpet.
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“Windmills of Your Mind” was composed by Michel Legrand with lyrics by Marilyn and Alan Bergman and it was performed by Noel Harrison. It won the Oscar for Best Original Song at the Academy Awards in 1969.
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There are four main themes in this soundtrack. A slow and sentimental composition introduced with three other themes; a typically upbeat circus tune; a powerful march with blaring horns and overbearing percussion and the last theme not so melancholic.
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John Barry's love for the Russian romantic composers is often reflected in his music. His use of strings, lyricism, half-diminished chords, and complex key shifting provides melancholy contrast in his scores. It's the Barry Effect.
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