ENNIO MORRICONE

ENNIO MORRICONE

Italian composer,orchestrator,conductor and former trumpet player.

Born in Rome, Italy in 1928 (age 87)

Over the past seven decades,Morricone has composed over 500 scores for cinema and television, as well as 100 classical works.

His filmography includes over 70 award-winning films.

Listen carefully to this selection of some of the best music fim composed by him.
This video includes some of the best soundtracks.

After having played in jazz bands in the 1950's he became an studio arranger and aghost writer for films and theather.
Ennio won his best original score  at the "Hateful Eight"
This director Quentin Tarantino accepts the award at the 2016 Golden Globes.

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Now, to finish with , I want to put you some questions.
*What new musical genre became popular as the film industry developed ?
*What is an award ?
*What does a soundtrack do ?
* Are soundtracks only music ?

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LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

"Life is Beautiful"

Film directed by Roberto Begnini in 1987.

Soundtrack composed by Nicola Piovani.

It won an Oscar for the Best Original score in 1988.

Listen to this street artist playing this theme with the harp in Rome,Italy.

Here you are the main theme music score to do some practise at home.

I wish you had plenty of entertainment !

SOUNDTRACKS

SOUNDTRACKS

In the 20th century as the film industry developed,
a new musical genre became popular.

It's commonly known as soundtrack.

"La la land"City of Stars (2016)

To compose this kind of music,musicians usually use the tonal classical music technique.

Many 20th century musicians composed soundtracks for many well-known movies.

"Sing"Animated Comedy Movie (2016)

Soundtracks have to accompany the action.

The special musical arragements are specially outstanding in horror films where the music is key to create  the sensation of fear or that something terrible is about to happen.

"Promise Reprise",from "Silent Hill"

Music helps create emotions,happiness, sadness and to bring images to life.

They are compose by professional musicians and interpreted by large symphonic orchestras.

Many soundtracks have been given awards,for instance :

Oscar for the best soundtrack.