The alternative film music list

[EdgeleyRob]

Straight off the top of my "Granddad can I .........." head

The Cruel Sea - Rawsthorne
The Magnificent Seven - Bernstein E
The Graduate - Simon

That is a great shout Anton.

[french frank]

Either way I think I'm going to end up with list of well over 100. If they are choosing from a list then boarders should be allowed to vote for as many as they like from the list and I'll do the calculations from that. With suggestions so far plus mine we've got around 60 films I think. If boarders continue posting with their suggestions today, I'll put together a list of the suggestions when I get back later this evening and start a new thread with the list of suggestions and inviting members to indicate their favourites from this, to run till Friday. Sound more feasible?

Sounds good. It'll be like preferential voting - you continue marking your preferences until you have no preferences. Then you stop.

Okay, I'll stick this thread until Sc starts a new one with the final list.

Are people happy for the list of new suggestions to close tonight?

[Suffolkcoastal]

That's great thanks, keep all your suggestions coming.

All add mine
Of Mice & Men (1939 vers) - Copland
Our Town - Copland
The Heiress - Copland (he got an oscar for this)
The Red Pony - Copland
On the Waterfront - L Bernstein
Hamlet - Walton
Richard III - Walton
The First of the few - Walton
49th Parallel - Vaughan Williams
The Loves of Joanna Godden - Vaughan Williams
Flemish Farm - Vaughan Williams
The Inn of the 6th Happiness - Arnold

The Battle of Britain may be problematical with most of it being by Ron Goodwin, with the fantastic Battle in the Air section of Walton, perhaps I should list it twice one with each composer?

[Bax-of-Delights]

I'd go for Walton's Battle in the Air section from The Battle of Britain as perfect marriage of sound and image (with, in this case, all other sounds stripped away leaving just the music to portray the sheer unmitigated terror of the young pilots.

The Edge of Darkness/Clapton and Kamen (yes, I know it was a TV serial but was eventually turned into a film). Here it is played in concert with Clapton on guitar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ENOt2mMsF4

(Be prepared at 3.30 for the startling arrival of the tambourine player who continues to drive the piece onwards and upwards).

[amateur51]

Can't say - as someone who has no interest in cinema, I can't name even one, qua film music (i.e. in context). How many people can name 10 - in order of preference (!?). Does everyone have to start again?

A simpler method is to compile a long list for the OP, and ask people to pick 5,10 from that list (their list, not a committee's). Number of mentions to result in a winner? It all depends how many people are interested in participating.

I knew she was more interested in the voting process rather than in the films or the music

I enjoyed the music to 'There Will Be Blood' hugely but I suspect that some of it was not written for that film per se.

[amateur51]

Sounds good. It'll be like preferential voting - you continue marking your preferences until you have no preferences. Then you stop.

See?!

[Anna]

I knew she was more interested in the voting process rather than in the films or the music

And I thought she might suggest the Single Transferable Vote be introduced!
(actually, it's all quite exciting isn't it? don't think we've ever had a poll before)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

don't think we've ever had a poll before

Can we please just clarify what's wanted? The OP suggested "only one work per composer", but that seems to have been discarded.

As I understand it, we all now choose our 10 favourite film scores (or is it "the 10 film scores that we think work best as Music"? or "the film scores of our 10 favourite films"? or "10 films with scores by 'proper' composers"?) and the 10 that feature most frequently in our various lists go onto the next round (the one with the missing vowels). In the event of a tie, nominations with the fewer or fewest passes go through, but there's also an extra round for the ten highest scoring runners-up?

Only very slightly poking fun, here - I would like to take part, but don't know how to play.

[french frank]

Can we please just clarify what's wanted? The OP suggested "only one work per composer", but that seems to have been discarded.

As I understand it, we all now choose our 10 favourite film scores (or is it "the 10 film scores that we think work best as Music"? or "the film scores of our 10 favourite films"? or "10 films with scores by 'proper' composers"?) and the 10 that feature most frequently in our various lists go onto the next round (the one with the missing vowels). In the event of a tie, nominations with the fewer or fewest passes go through, but there's also an extra round for the ten highest scoring runners-up?

Only very slightly poking fun, here - I would like to take part, but don't know how to play.

Sc explains in http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...132#post337132 .

You can make any suggestions you like as long as this is music written for film. Yes, as many as you like by the same composer - Sc will then compile the list for you to vote on.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Oh, and one more thing: is it the whole score; a particularly favoured scene (such as The Battle in the Air from The Battle of Britain or The Creation of the Female Monster from The Bride of Frankenstein?) or any mixture of the two?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Sc explains in http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...132#post337132 .

You can make any suggestions you like as long as this is music written for film. Yes, as many as you like by the same composer - Sc will then compile the list for you to vote on.

[MrGongGong]

And then after everyone has voted.....two of the composers who didn't receive the most votes will join together to write a "masterwork" claiming that THEY have the support of those who voted !

Seems fair to me ? Can't see any problem with that at all ........

Looking forward to the poll though

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Ok, then; to narrow today's choices down to 10, I've gone for complete scores of films where the Music works well on its own, but is even better in the context of a film that I particularly enjoy (so PMD's superb score for The Devils doesn't feature because of the unwitting Pythonesque risibility of the film itself - harsh, but I couldn't filter down to 10 otherwise). Sooo ...


Bernard Herrmann: Taxi Driver
John Barry: Thunderball
John Barry: Midnight Cowboy
John Barry: Dutchman
Ennio Morricone: For a Few Dollars More
Ennio Morricone: Once Upon a Time in the West
Harrison Birtwistle: The Offence
Malcolm Arnold: Whistle Down the Wind
Dee Barton: Play "Misty" For Me
Dave Grusin: The Firm

Herrmann's Psycho should also be there. Morricone's Cinema Paradiso would've featured, if the second half of the film had been as good as the first.

[french frank]

Oh, and one more thing: is it the whole score; a particularly favoured scene (such as The Battle in the Air from The Battle of Britain or The Creation of the Female Monster from The Bride of Frankenstein?) or any mixture of the two?

Any mixture? I'm not sure about mixing The Battle in the Air with The Creation of the Female Monster (War of the Queen of the Amazons?) .... Off the cuff, I'd say, Film/date(?) and composer would be enough - but Suffy will sort it out whatever you put

[mangerton]

I've just caught up with this thread now. I'm not sure I could add much (is Alexander Nevsky by Prokofiev in the list?) but I'd be happy to vote. I'll get a wet towel round my head and re-read the rules.