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Hi everybody !
Last time after revisiting wonderful Jerry Goldsmith, "Night Crossing" released by Intrada, wonderfully played by National Philharmonic Orchestra.
After listen "Night Crossing" I start thinking which Jerry scores are COMPLETELY orchestral.
I think about scores recorded ONLY with live orchestra/musicans. Scores completly without ANY synthetizers, samples or another electronic effects.
It will be interresting to make together a list of completly orchestral, "live" Goldsmith scores.
My first examples (correct me if im wrong)
- Night Crossing
- Air Force One
- Blue Max
- The Edge
- First Knight
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King Solomon's Mines.
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- King Solomon`s Mines
- Planet of the Apes
- Islands in the Stream
- Caboblanco
- The Great Train Robbery
- The Secret of NIMH
- The Boys from Brazil
- Papillon
- Lonely are the Brave
- The Spiral Road
- Rio Conchos
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Surely there's loads ....
The Sand Pebbles ...
The Blue Max ...
The Chairman ...
No?
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Nov 22, 2015 - 10:00 AM
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Graham Watt
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Michal, I think Stephen's right. There must be loads, in fact I'm sure the "completely orchestral scores" far outweigh in number the ones in which Goldsmith employed synths or electronic effects. I don't think the composer really started using synths habitually until the early '80s, and then it was often just as an additional orchestral colour. Before that of course, he had employed all kinds of electronic effects, reverb etc etc in many scores, frequently SF or thrillers, but I still think that looking at his extensive filmography as a whole, synths and electronics were the exception rather than the rule.
By the way, would the use of an electric keyboard/ guitar etc rule out a score as being completely orchestral? Could we even call a small ensemble score of twelve players "orchestral?"
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Air Force One has synths.
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Weren't the synth cues in Freud by a different composer? I think that may have been early on what intrigued Goldsmith about synths in film music...
Yavar
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Does ALIEN actually have synths or, like Planet of the Apes, are the otherwordly sounds created by unusual uses of acoustic instruments?
What about Coma, is those otherwordly sounds also created acoustically?
The Great Train Robbery?
Breakheart Pass?
The Last Run?
A Gathering of Eagles?
In Harm's Way?
Ransom?
Bandolero?
Hour of the Gun?
Admittedly, I haven't played these through to be sure there's no synths, but off the top of my head I don't think there are...
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The use of echoplex disqualifies Planet of the Apes. Also electric bass, I believe.
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The Mummy has synth, and Rudy does as well (that piano is a keyboard some of the time, if I remember correctly).
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Does Chinatown ring a bell?
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