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Favourite Movie Music Pieces

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#1 ·
Hey i was wondering what everyone's favourite movie piece's were. They can come from scores that are not even that good overall and are easier to check out than whole scores.

Here is a few of mine:
Chevaliers de sangreal (The Da Vinci Code) - Zimmer
Duel of the Fates (The Phantom Menace) - Williams
The Wedding Night (Mary Shelly's Frankenstein) - Doyle
Khazad Dum (The fellowship of the Ring) - Shore
Braveheart End Credits - (Braveheart) - Horner
Empire strikes back End credits (The Empire Strikes Back) - Williams
Harvey Two Faced (The Dark Knight) - Zimmer
Arrival to Earth (Transformers) - Jablonski
Main theme (You only live twice) - Barry
Across the stars (Attack of the clones) - Williams
Almost Martyres (The Life of David Gale) -
 
#4 ·
More currently: Contemporary classical composer Nico Muhly's soundtrack for "The Reader," the segment, "Who Was She?"


Thomas Newman's wonderful somewhat neoclassical sounding theme music from "Six Feet Under." with its very fine mix of instrumental and electronic sounds.


of yore:

Bernard Hermann ~ Vertigo suite, Prelude (here with the L.A. Phil under the direction of Esa-Pekka Salonen


Elmer Bernstein's score to another Hitchcock film, North by Northwest:


[As to the many others, I have no personal taste or liking for what I hear as freshly regenerated cliche fare, ala John Williams or Hans Zimmer, or the more idiosyncratic Danny Elfman -- that is not to deny their craft or the incredibly unique requirements of writing in any and all genres (and at great speed) which movie composers in general meet on a rigorous and tight schedule -- from my perspective, those named make very little I would call 'fresh' there.]
 
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