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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      General Discussion: Scores That Could Be Giallos But Aren't     1 2    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Mar 31, 2012 - 5:23 PM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) Two come to mind: Klute: Delirious mix of the main pop theme with sad trumpet, minimalist stuff, breathy wordless female vocals, dissonance, and "rock" tunes. It's been ages since I've seen the film; does it have any giallo aspects? Listening now to the album, I can just see Edwige Fenech in a maxi skirt and boots walking through the streets of Rome with a bunch of Mini Coopers on the roads. Coma: Never saw the film, but the score's use of orchestral dissonance tempered with disco tunes make it sound like a giallo. What are some others?    Posted:   Mar 31, 2012 - 5:55 PM     By:   Josh   (Member) With off-kilter pianos, brooding strings, music box, sitar, electric harpsichord, electric guitar, whistler, and groovy source tunes, Mancini's Wait Until Dark (1967) totally sounds like it could've been written for a giallo. For all I know, it may have served as an inspiration to the maestros of the genre. Listen/buy: http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/cds/detail.cfm/CDID/383/Wait-Until-Dark/    Posted:   Mar 31, 2012 - 6:01 PM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) With off-kilter pianos, brooding strings, music box, sitar, electric harpsichord, electric guitar, whistler, and groovy source tunes, Mancini's Wait Until Dark totally sounds like it could've been written for a giallo. Agreed! I mentioned as much in a thread about that album, and got beat up for it!    Posted:   Mar 31, 2012 - 6:37 PM     By:   ToneRow   (Member) What are some others? A STEP OUT OF LINE is one example. It's a TV-Movie, but Jerry Goldsmith provides a heady mixture of jazz elements with thrilleresque strings.    Posted:   Mar 31, 2012 - 6:50 PM     By:   Josh   (Member) Good call, ToneRow. As a matter of fact, that was one of the CDs I pulled off the shelf while scouring our collection for "scores that could be giallos but aren't." Stanley Myers' Sitting Target (1972) is another coulda-been-a-giallo score. Laid back funk, synthy weirdness, crime jazz, airy pop grooves, and all kinds of other gorgeous aural oddities are jam packed into a score that is as wonderful as it is short (the out-of-print CD release by Finders Keepers Records has a total running time of 24 1/2 minutes).    Posted:   Mar 31, 2012 - 8:12 PM     By:   Viscount Bark   (Member) There are, of course, American thrillers such as EYES OF LAURA MARS (scored by Artie Kane) and Brian DePalma's suspense films usually scored by Donaggio or Sakamoto, which aren't officially called giallos but are certainly influenced by the spirit of Argento et al. Some of Roy Budd's scores mix cool orchestral suspense licks with groovy pop. I'm not sure which I should choose as the best example though.    Posted:   Apr 1, 2012 - 2:42 AM     By:   ToneRow   (Member) Here's one that's not a giallo but very much in the same vein (British chiller): Chrisopher Gunning's GOODBYE GEMINI, his first film score.    Posted:   Apr 1, 2012 - 2:47 AM     By:   ToneRow   (Member) I expect that Onya wasn't referring to any Hammer Horror, but this was Hammer's attempt to be mod: This glam-rock time capsule by Mike Vickers purportedly got some ghost-written musial support by Don Banks (without credit) for the orchestral suspense portions...but I don't know how true this claim is (Banks does not receive any credit in the Buysoundtrax DRACULA A.D. 1972 album, as I recall)    Posted:   Apr 1, 2012 - 3:19 AM     By:   Zooba   (Member) Am I the only one who didn't know what Giallo(s) is and had to look it up? Never heard the word until now. Giallo (Italian pronunciation: ['d?allo], plural gialli) is an Italian 20th century genre of literature and film, which in Italian indicates crime fiction and mystery.    Posted:   Apr 1, 2012 - 3:44 AM     By:   ToneRow   (Member) Where has Zooba been? Italian labels such as Digitmovies have been releasing giallo soundtracks for over a half-dozen years by this point in time: http://www.digitmovies.com/digitsoundtracks/en/products/CDDM085 Have you ever seen the selection of Italian CDs over @ SAE? To be more specific, though, the giallo genre starts about 1968/'69 and runs through 1975 or so. Giallos are thriller or horror movies which gravitated around "pulp"-level sources, typically dubbed in English (though not all of them), and offering scenes of explicit blood, gore & nudity which were not in mainstream Hollywood cinema until the late-1970s slasher movie craze begun. To be even more specific, OnyaBirri is asking which soundtracks sound like the brand of giallo as written by Ennio Morricone and/or Bruno Nicolai. That is, soundtracks albums which have an overall pop music vibe, frequently with female vocalise and PSYCHO-like strings.    Posted:   Apr 1, 2012 - 3:48 AM     By:   Zooba   (Member) I've been here. Never heard of Giallos though. I must have been sleeping in a subway. That's what Truman Capote once said to Dick Cavett on Dick's show. In that wonderful Truman voice: "Where have you been Dick, sleeping in a subway?"    Posted:   Apr 1, 2012 - 4:18 AM     By:   ToneRow   (Member) I've been here. Never heard of Giallos though. I must have been sleeping in a subway. Not a good place to sleep, according to Giallos! At least you haven't been asleep using YouTube ...    Posted:   Apr 1, 2012 - 4:50 AM     By:   Francis   (Member) I've been here. Never heard of Giallos though. I must have been sleeping in a subway. Not a good place to sleep, according to Giallos! watch out for those ducks!    Posted:   Feb 15, 2014 - 9:22 AM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) "Rosemary's Baby" fits into this category, with the creepy lullaby, chanting,and scary orchestral music juxtaposed against the rock tune "Moment in Time," Mancini-esque "Moment Musical" and the upbeat, young-lovers-in-the-city bliss of "Christmas."    Posted:   Feb 15, 2014 - 9:25 AM     By:   ToneRow   (Member) Jerry Goldsmith's TV Movie music for A STEP OUT OF LINE sounds like a giallo at times.    Posted:   Feb 15, 2014 - 9:41 AM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) Here it comes...    Posted:   Feb 15, 2014 - 9:41 AM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) Jerry Goldsmith's TV Movie music for A STEP OUT OF LINE sounds like a giallo at times. That's what you said two years ago. Glad I'm not the only one!    Posted:   Feb 15, 2014 - 7:11 PM     By:   dan the man   (Member) TO ZOOBA-You know what PETULIA CLARK says about sleeping in the subways. Way back in the 70's a bunch of these films played on 42STREET in New York on double and triple features in movie houses where many people did sleep [homeless]    Posted:   Feb 15, 2014 - 8:54 PM     By:   Advise & Consent   (Member) The French Connection by Don Ellis (the complete score) could have been a wild score for a Giallo.    Posted:   Feb 15, 2014 - 10:10 PM     By:   Josh   (Member) Les Gants Blancs Du Diable (1973) ~ Karl Heinz Schäfer     General Discussion: Scores That Could Be Giallos But Aren't    < 1 2  > >>  Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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