Great Musical Scores

I bid you all to name a few of your personal favourite musical scores from some of the great motion pictures, either written specifically for the movie, or old classics which may fit in perfectly with the action. Eg: John Williams Theme to Schindlers List or Sarabande by Bach in the movie Barry Lyndon.

Thanks, I want to download as many as I can for my listening pleasure.

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There are many threads on scores, composers and soundtracks, including HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.


Some of my very favorite scores are Taxi Driver, Citizen Kane, North by Northwest and Psycho by Bernard Herrmann, Once Upon A Time in the West, Once Upon A Time in America, My Name is Nobody, The Mission and The Thing by Ennio Morricone, BladeRunner, Missing and Chariots of Fire by Vangelis, Laura, The Bad & the Beautiful and Force of Evil by David Raskin, The Long Riders, Johnny Handsome and Paris, Texas by Ry Cooder, Touch of Evil, The Pink Panther and Hatari! by Henry Mancini, Chinatown, L.A. Confidential and Alien by Jerry Goldsmith, and on and on and on....

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Once Upon a Time in the West is one of my favorite scores..

Halloween Theme plain and simple by JC

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The music from the Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) has always been my favorite.

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Hans zimmer and jerry goldsmith are really good at movie scores
great music scores i think:
Muppet Treasure island
pirates of the craibbean
once upon a time in mexico
the rock
crimson tide
air force one

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I like Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo score, which from what I understand was an adaptation of something Richard Wagner composed.

Tough to pick just one out as my favorite. Henry Mancini's "Moon River" for Breakfast at Tiffany's is probably about the best film has to offer. So much in fact that it has gone far beyond belonging just to film, but has become a staple in treasured American music and melodies. Instantly recognized around the world, it's been covered a billion and one times.

Also Dimitri Tiomkin's "Settle Down" in Red River, Ennio Morricone's "Jill's Theme" in Once Upon a Time in the West, Franz Waxman's dreamlike surreal score for Rebecca, Mikis Theodorakis's energitic theme for Zorba the Greek, Vangelis' Blade Runner theme, Marc Shaiman's scores for City Slickers.

Some favorites. The list goes on and on. I think music is an essential part in films and having a great theme is important. Looking at my favorite movies they're often the ones that also include my favorite music.

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Hey thanks guys, cool of you to share.

I should look in on them next time before I post that is probably very generic.

I like the score to Edward scissorhands.

Gladiator

Magnolia - "Save Me"

Empire Strikes Back
Pirates of the Caribbean
Gladiator
Beauty and the Beast

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True. If memory serves isn't that the first film to feature the Imeperial Death March or whatever that tune is called? I don't think the first Star Wars had it.

And my favorite musical bit in the movie is during the chase with the Falcon flying away from the Tie Fighters in the asteroid field.

Anything by John Williams...he hasn't won a load of oscars for nothing!!!

On that note, which of John's Scores do you think is his best. I'm saying the Schindlers List score is his best.

A Beautiful Mind
Requiem For A Dream
Six Degrees Of Separation

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American Beauty--thomas newman rules, i love his music for this film

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I love Once Upon a time in the west and its score.
My personal fave's are those in Platoon, The Godfather, Carlito's way and the Indiana Jones trilogy. Also I watched The Last Seduction recently and thought the music was great, it didn't seem to stop throughout the movie.

Man From Snowy River
Labyrinth
Magnolia

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