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I would imagine in conducting music (I know she did some of Elfman’s scores), she would have picked up some Elfman influence along the way.
After watching some of the Batman Animated series……goodness, Shirley Walker is brilliant. I wish I could get some of that show’s music (more than just the Phantasm) on CD. That show used real instruments, not electronics, right?
II can’t give you a top ten, but I’m particularly fond of:
Elliot Goldenthal’s “Batman Forever” score – the tracks names alone are great, but I love the craziness of the score….the “Nygma Variations” is just a completely awesome track….especially when the saxophone, theremin, and voice all come together
Nelson Riddle’s “Batman” – I love the jazziness of the CD, and it’s just a crazy superhero score that’s completely silly (for the most part)
Micheal Giacchino’s “The Incredibles” – This might be my favorite non-Elfman or non-Williams (not fair! Superman’s one of my favorites!) it’s alot like John Barry’s Bond scores (which are some of my absolute favorites at the moment), but even when I didn’t know who John Barry was, it was a good score, especially “Life’s Incredible Again”, “Bob Vs the Omnidroid”, “The 100 Mile Dash”, and “The Incredits”. Good stuff.Ouch! That’s a lot of money! In that case, I’ll let you borrow the accordion transcription I made.
Serenada Schizophrana has to be my favorite work of Elfman’s next to Batman.I think this is the closest you’re going to get : http://www.schirmer.com/Default.aspx?TabId=2420&State_2874=2&workId_2874=27653
and even that…..I’m not sure exactly what it is….and Improv for Alto Sax isn’t on there.
As far as going out and buying the music…..I don’t think you can do that.Donnie_Darko88 Wrote:
> I have a question that was bothering me about the
> score the entire movie.
>
> Sandman’s theme. I actually enjoyed it quite a
> bit. But it sounded so familiar. Specifically,
> there was a few notes played that sounded like the
> exact notes from another movie score. Can anyone
> help me out here?It (I think it was Sandman’s Theme) reminded me of the cue “The Fight with the Cyclops” from Bernard Herrmann’s “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad”.
I felt that the first 2/3 of the movie went way too fast and that it might would have been better to take the material and split it into two movies which would have allowed more development for the characters. I thought the last 1/3 was wonderful. Perhaps the problem was they tried to cram too much into the movie, but I’ve never been one to criticize movies that much. I was entertained. Musically, I felt Young did a good job in that he stayed (for the most part) true to the Spider-Man sound (when he wasn’t using the themes or pre-existing cues. I liked both the Sandman and symbiote themes. The first cue after the Titles sounded a little weird, but other than that I think he did good (although I would have rather have had Elfman!)
I think it’s a great score! Short, but good. Everytime I listen to it I wonder why I don’t listen to it more…..and everytime the “Crime Spree” track comes on I have to hit the repeat button, hahaha.
I can’t add too much except that the motif in the woodwinds and later in the strings (maybe even the xylophones) where it runs up and all around and down the scale is one of Elfman’s trademarks in his early scores and can be found in “Roof Fight” in “Batman”, “Ballet De Suburbia” in “Edward Scissorhands” and in “Dr. Finklestein/In the Forest” from “The Nightmare Before Christmas”…..at least, I hear similarities in all of those tracks, but I may be wrong.
Oh, thanks for the link. Sounds like one of those fun Elfman soundtracks….and They Might Be Giants have a song on there. Nice.
Right now I’m listening to Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky cantata …..I also listened through Alexander Nevsky (the film version), Ivan the Terrible, the Lieutenant Kije suite, and the Scythian suite today. On my iPod Shuffle I’m going through Shostakovich’s 15 symphonies (I believe I am on #
, and also am enjoying various CDs from the “Concertos, Orchestral Suites, and Chamber Symphonies” and “Piano Works” box sets from Decca. I’ve also been listening to alot of Ennio Morricone lately (especially the Giu La Testa 2 CD set, Quando Le Donne….. and the Pure Gold 6 CD set).
When I want something other than orchestral music I’ll grab my Five Iron Frenzy or Joy Electric CDs….The Brothers Martin is a good CD too. That’s what’s been going through my ears recently.Haha…that thing about bullying and John Williams….I was thinking those same thoughts before they were posted.
I have heard that John Williams doesn’t do his orchestrations……and then doesn’t give credit to his orchestrator…What’s great on the Film Music CD is to hear Bernard Herrmann squawking about someone messing up, hahaha.
I’ve said this in another post, but I believe that Silva re released those tracks from the “Citizen Kane” collection and put them on a “Taxi Driver” collection along with a few bonus tracks (like Twisted Nerve).I am almost 100% sure that it is from “Citizen Kane: The Essential Bernard Herrmann” . You can’t find the track as a stand alone on iTunes, but I think it might be included in the suite on the “Bernard Herrmann – The Essential Film Music Collection” by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
The McNeely version is a lot faster, so I know it’s not that (or the original).Mwahaha brass….
iTunes..Paramount….or whoever knew that they wouldn’t make alot of money if they released it on a single song available purchase…probably not for the Elfman track, but for Religious Man. They knew people wanted the soundtrack because of that song….so they did the evil, greedy, corporate thing to do and made the whole album necessary to buy to get whatever song you wanted. I dare say, if iTunes had released the album as songs that were able to be purchased individually, there would hardly be any Nacho Libre CDs bought.
“Danny Elfman’s Batman” is a great book to learn more about him….though I couldn’t follow the theory all that much….
http://www.bluntinstrument.org.uk/elfman/archive/listing.html (if I’m not allowed to post that link, let me know…) has a ton of articles if you want to read them.That was pretty interesting! I don’t think there has been too many film composers that have had a celebrity playlist. Additionally, TNBCSE was #10 on the top selling iTunes recently.
