Piccioni composed a soundtrack with melancholy phrases played by an unaccompanied English horn, sombre dissonances and long sustained chords in the lower registers with only a faint light of hope when a high flute phrase, music full of unresolved tension. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUGS...

It was the second and brilliant collaboration between Philippe Sarde and Roman Polanski. It is extraordinary how the music fits so perfectly in every detail of the movie. This score is simply stunning. Beautifully composed, orchestrated and performed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX0H...

This soundtrack featured a complicated orchestration that required an unusual arrangement of the orchestra. The use of crystal harmonica gives the score a disturbing and bleak character. Sarde captured in his music the desperation and loneliness of a mind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVQ2...

The Arabian Theme supports the setting of Sinbad’s tales of adventure, past and present. A repeating twelve-note line by forthright confident strings brimming with optimism carry our hero ever forward, unstoppable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_2g...

There is a very memorable main theme, a beautiful yearning melody. Jarre's score is at times brash and comical, and sometimes ethereal and deeply moving, with a top notch love theme. "I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird". www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNyy...

Max Steiner conceived it as a molto tragico repeating triplet phrase, for which she cannot assuage or escape. Vibraphone, celeste, bells, flute, harp, flute, muted gongs and twinkling chimes were beautifully blended to create the perfect ambiance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD08...

Emilio Kauderer is an Argentine composer, orchestrator and songwriter residing in Los Angeles. He is best known for his scores for films. He composes the themes before I start pre-production, so every creative department is inspired by his melodies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UeE...

It was the first collaboration between Ron Howard and composer Hans Zimmer. His score is based around several recurring themes and motifs, including the emotional for the McCaffrey brothers, as well as minor motifs representing the nature of fire. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpf3...

His main romantic theme is one of his best and the score is the best example of how to write a great score for a comedy. So, take a trip to the City of Light and prepare to be entranced and captivated by Nelson Riddle’s wonderful theme "Gabrielle". www.youtube.com/watch?v=zToR...

Carlos Alberto García, better known by Charly García, is an Argentine singer-songwriter, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and record producer. He is considered one of the most important and influential figures in the Latin American popular music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrjj...

To infuse the score with the requisite cultural sensibilities, Tiomkin augmented his orchestra with a guitar, accordion, banjo, harmonica and mandolin. He also interpolated a number of traditional folk songs, anthems and hymns. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA9f...

“Main Title” offers a score highlight where Steiner masterfully sets the tone of the film. We open ominously empowered by nativist drums of war. Heraldic horns bellicoso declarations against military and settler black and white sketches. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg97...

Luis Bacalov, when he moved to Italy in the fifties, could not have imagined that he would begin a great career in the world of soundtracks, first with the Spaghetti western as 'Django' or in the dramatic genre with 'The postman and Pablo Neruda'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixQf...

Mark Isham is an American musician and film composer. He is also a film composer, having worked on numerous films and television series. This is one of his best and most emotionally-driven scores to-date. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUsm...

Nino Rota composed one of his most eclectic scores ever where he brought in barbaric rhythms, Romanic fanfares, ancient-sounding instruments and melodies that recall the glory of Rome. The soundtrack is at once Roman, primal, and yet otherworldly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioxd...

Born in Rome, Franco Piersanti debuted as film composer scoring the Nanni Moretti's first film. He is also well known for his long collaboration with the director Gianni Amelio, for whom he scored seven movies between 1982 and 2006. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPdi...

In his style Ennio Morricone wrote a sad theme that begins with a piece for organ performed by Giorgio Carnini with orchestra, creating the musical atmosphere of the film. He also composed some themes, using the military trumpet as a basis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=azxZ...

Maurice Jarre composed a delightful symphonic soundtrack with multiple character themes. Much of the music is in rollicking, rumbustious mood with flavourings from Jarre's most popular music. But the french composer also uses folk instruments. www.youtube.com/watch?v=075M...

Soundtrack in which folk and ethnic themes are incorporated for purely environmental purposes. Piccioni wrote an opening melody of increasing intensity, very sorrowful and fatalistic, but also very beautiful. Other melodies carry the same aura of sadness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zut8...

Overwhelming Ennio Morricone score with a main theme close to the pastoral, in which choirs and melody merge to offer a dramatic perspective, very heartfelt, of the horrors of war. We can hear the themes "The death of Oahn" and "The healing". www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKWf...

The film opens with a beautiful, classical melody for a real piano, an elegant tribute to the relationship between Dan and Beth. Pretty woodwinds, combine with a mysterious-sounding trumpet and a synth wash in performing a long-lined melody. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiRK...

Giuseppe "Pino" Donaggio become a musical expert in films related to various legal proceedings, such as this film about the assassination of Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro, where he mixes electronic sounds created by Paolo Steffan and synthesizers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4tf...

The director Rob Reiner turned to the British guitarist and songwriter Mark Knopfler, best known for his work as the front man of the group Dire Straits. The main theme is by Willy De Ville, whose original song “Storybook Love” was nominated for an Academy Award. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-tf...

Maurice Jarre focuses on one main childish and innocent topic, using the harpsichord, organ, piano, flutes, also some jazz and a small orchestra in order to give a very particular musical universe of his twisted and psychopathic protagonist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKcU...

Maurice Jarre's score was gorgeous. Two things stuck out - the romantic scene with De Niro and the girl at the beach house and of how Jarre follows the ebb and flow of their "play". It also had a Delerue feel with its melodic, wistful melancholy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i3N...

Stanley Myers was a prolific British film composer who scored over sixty films. He is best known for this "Cavatina", an evocative guitar piece, for which Myers won the Ivor Novello Award. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzi3...

This hilarious Mancini score is very groovy and features a few vocal chorus numbers, as well as sitar, guitar, and horn blasts. The music is played by a superb group of L.A. jazzmen, such as Shelly Manne, Plas Johnson, Jimmy Rowles, and Jack Sheldon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBR7...

This is one of the composer’s most classical-sounding, highlighting some exquisite piano solos. There is the trademark Morricone running through it, which is exquisitely beautiful but also quite profoundly sad in the interplay between piano and flute. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrEA...

The struggle between high and low ranges in the orchestra is never in doubt; the deep bass strings, bass woodwinds, and timpani are dominant. The opening sections of the score are ambiguous and understated, leaving the visuals to speak for themselves. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljtq...

Exotic instruments such as three Ondes Martenot and a cithera were integrated into the traditional orchestra to provide this unique soundscape. The Desert Theme underpins its narrative and speaks of the vast desert vistas with a sweeping romanticism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP8Z...

"The River Kwai March" is a march composed as an orchestral counter-march to the "Colonel Bogey March", which is whistled by the soldiers entering the prisoner camp in the film and again near the end of the film when the bridge is formally dedicated. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEP_...

Essential is composer John Dankworth, whose cool jazz score sets the appropriate mood. He appears uncredited in a nightclub as part of a jazz band. His soundtrack helps anchor the piece in the early sixties. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtOM...

Thomas Newman brings the full orchestra back into play and the effect is startlingly good. The instruments are used, along with mandolins and a hurdy-gurdy amongst others throughout the score, but their effect is more subtle and used as color and flavor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqUZ...

Riz Ortolani was hired in Rome as a pianist in a dance hall and later joined RAI as an arranger for radio orchestras. Ortolani wrote over 200 film scores, including a host of westerns and many Italian thrillers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0etu...

The iconic main theme, “Thunderbird,” is a lonely, bluesy, languid Haycock electric guitar solo which somehow captures the essence of the landscape and the feeling of the American southwest, with its towering rock mesas, endless deserts, and hardy people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynfO...

Mikis Theodarakis 'Main Title' recalls a military parade performed by bouzouki, harpsichord, trombones and busy percussion instruments which introduce the audience immediately to the politically charged atmosphere and mood of the movie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tPB...

Piero Piccioni was an Italian film score composer and lawyer. We have him at his best with powerful groove sound on “Underground Sketches”, “Magic of New York”, “Sad Tales” and “Burning Point”. Plus two great jazz tunes with vibraphone “Red Shift I & II”. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDXT...

Howard quickens pace with thicker orchestral colors, more prominent percussion rhythms. His scores climactic showdown with riveting action music. Here, exciting, aggressive French horns get the spotlight with thundering percussion right up front with them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha6G...

The Top Gun Anthem combines Faltermeyer’s keyboard with an electric guitar performed by Billy Idol’s guitarist Steve Stevens. From the echoing drums and synthesized tubular bells it evoke the hyper-enhanced bravado and swagger of the main characters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-DA...

Nicola Piovani is an Italian pianist, composer and conductor. His collaboration with Bellocchio, which will last more than a decade, will be the beginning of a career, which led the composer to meet almost all the great authors of Italian cinema. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU_g...

It was the first major Hollywood action score in the career of composer Mark Isham. Although his primary instrument was the trumpet, Isham was also very comfortable writing for synths and keyboards. The Opening captures the might and power of the ocean. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Altd...

The Titanic theme evolves into a Love Theme and achieves a sublime lyricism in Céline Dion’s singing of the End Title’s song “My Heart Will Go On.” The theme is articulated by violin and kindred strings, piano, synth choir and Sissel’s timeless vocals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQj6...

Miklós Rózsa's music for the main titles and opening scene irradiates tension in terms not of volume but of complex, agitated rhythms. All around those mean and desolate streets, the music tells us, a world is waiting to pounce. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irmi...

Morricone’s main theme is actually quite lovely, with a pastoral tone and a lilting melody carried by strings, guitars, and almost imperceptible finger-cymbals like sound like dripping icicles. The vocals are adding a layer of warmth and humanity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmNi...

Laurence Rosenthal captures the gamut of historical drama and power, ranging from the playful and colorful adventures of youth through love, conflict, hate, trials and penance. Opening with his dramatic main title for full orchestra and male chorus. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQKx...

Piero Piccioni was born in Turin on December 6, 1921. Self-taught, at thirteen, when his father took him to Florence to listen to orchestras, he was already writing songs. Among his most famous soundtracks there is that of IL CASO MATTEI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x_w...

Elmer’s score had to adapt to the style of the language, as well as meet all the additional and more usual dramatic requirement of composing for the screen. "When we laid in the score the first time it flowed over the narration like a clear-running brook". www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxTQ...

The most singular moment was the long sequence of the parade of ecclesial models. The configuration of this music is that of a ballet that progressively acquires more grotesque tonalities, parallel to the amazing display of the costumes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLQO...

The main title is an unusual staccato march that incorporates bizarre sound effects – duck quacks, highly processed gunfire that often morphs into a fluttering effect, that becomes robust and rhythmic as it progresses. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJoQ...

This is one of Elmer Bernstein's more experimental scores. "The City" introduces the main theme that is an insanely catchy, jazzy piece written in Bernstein's unmistakable style. It's light and breezy and yet powerful and memorable at the same time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyNm...