Seeing how you lot love making lists, how many "film scores" have been released that were inspired by a non-film source?
Joel McNeely - "Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire", which was based on a book, is an example of what I am asking for.
I suppose if someone wrote a score for a film he was inspired by, then that would count. But you can't include rejected scores that were officially commissioned. Only something a composer thought he might like to write a score for, maybe an old favourite of his.
So do Glass's scores for Dracula and Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast meet your criteria? I also seem to recall several years ago often seeing in the LP cut-out bins an album called Music to Read James Bond By but I'm not sure if the tracks were original compositions or arrangements of popular tunes.
So do Glass's scores for Dracula and Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast meet your criteria
I didn't think of Glass' "Dracula", even though I own it, lol. That has also reminded me of James Bernard's "Nosferatu".
But I'm not sure if these count, since they were both commissioned officially for an old film's re-release. Otherwise, this thread may get inundated with suggestions of re-scoring old silent movies.
One of my all-time favorite albums is Richard Einhorn's "Voices of Light," which he was inspired to write in 1994 for Dreyer's THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC. It's an incredible, cinematic work for choir and orchestra. The story goes that Einhorn had been developing a "religious" sounding piece and while doing research happened upon a still from the film. He watched the whole thing and went about finishing the piece as a sort of pseudo-score, which was performed live to film. The piece was later edited into the film for airings on TCM and the Criterion release. The film is incredible anyway, but I stumbled onto the new edit once in the middle of the night and was moved beyond words.
Anyway, I'm babbling. But suffice to say, it's a favorite.
Brian Eno's albums MUSIC FOR FILMS and MORE MUSIC FOR FILMS were written for 'imaginary' films, but of course many of the tracks have subsequently appeared in various REAL movies over the years.
I also remember running across a vinyl album years ago called KANAL that was apparently inspired by the Wajda film. I'll see if I can dig it out and find out the composer.
