Just playing ATONEMENT by Dario Marianelli and boy oh boy, that Elegy for Dunkirk piece is a killer!! I would say it's the best piece of music DM has ever written. His use of the soldiers chorus just adds to the emotion of the piece. STUNNING!! It's not my all-time fave elegy though. I imagine something by Jay Dubya (THE FURY Epilogue album track maybe) or Morricone or Delerue might win the day. I'll wait to see what other FSMers post (thus jogging my memory) before I decide on a winner. So..what is YOUR favourite elegy from a film score? I NEED to know
The one that sprang to mind was Morricone's Casualties of War, much of which has an elegaic nature (an elegy being originally a poem of serious reflection). One of the tracks is even named for an elegy, but the whole nature of the film lends itself to regret for events seen through Michael J Fox's character's eyes.
There's a fine line between an elegy and a threnody, which I think you could sum up by the latter being a lament specifically for mourning a dead person. Moses The Lawgiver includes one or more of these.
Nice link FB. I do like Thomas Newman in airy synth mode like that.
And Thanks TG, for rescuing this drowning thread
There are 2 tracks on the Casualties of War CD titled as such; Elegy for a Dead Cherry Elegy for Brown Both are typically gorgeous pieces by EM in his customary mournful mode.
I'm not really sure what 'Elegy' means in musical terms. Is it just a slow, sombre, reflective piece of music? In saying that, a cue I really like with elegy in the title is "Elegy For Charlotte" from Autumn In New York by Gabriel Yared. Lovely piece.
Yeah, elegies, adagios..even threnody a frickin bone. They all feature anguished strings belting out profound loss and mourning. Post what yer like...I'll know what yer mean!
Yeah, elegies, adagios..even threnody a frickin bone. They all feature anguished strings belting out profound loss and mourning. Post what yer like...I'll know what yer mean!
Barber's Adagio For Strings features in several films and fits the bill. Open this up to concert hall music, Kev, and the world's your lobster...
Wow, I was just thinking this as I listened to Goldsmith's "The True Symbol" from THE WIND AND THE LION; not an elegy in context, but musically it has that quality. Others that come to mind are Sister Ligouri's Memorial Service in THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS, the aftermath of Pho-han's death in THE SAND PEBBLES, Thomas Hudson gently informing his ex-wife of son Tommy's death in ISLANDS IN THE STREAM.
One of the more moving examples is the variation on the Bennett's main theme from NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, as the family is shuttled from a boxcar to a lorry, surrounded by jeering crowds.
Franz Waxman's variation on 'The Ballad of Springfield Mountain" for the "Roll Call" scene in PEYTON PLACE also should be mentioned.
Wow, I was just thinking this as I listened to Goldsmith's "The True Symbol" from THE WIND AND THE LION; not an elegy in context, but musically it has that quality. Others that come to mind are Sister Ligouri's Memorial Service in THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS, the aftermath of Pho-han's death in THE SAND PEBBLES, Thomas Hudson gently informing his ex-wife of son Tommy's death in ISLANDS IN THE STREAM.
One of the more moving examples is the variation on the Bennett's main theme from NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, as the family is shuttled from a boxcar to a lorry, surrounded by jeering crowds.
And when ARE we going to get a full CD release of RRB's Nicholas and Alexandra? Bruce.......anyone?
