When you think about movie soundtracks, it is not going to be very long before you come up with the name of Ennio Morricone.
His prolific career has seen him compose the music for around two-hundred films and many television dramatisations. In the world of movie soundtracks there are not many people who have this amount of work in their portfolio…
Morricone is still best known for his first big break; the trilogy of spaghetti westerns by Sergio Leone. Just about everyone on Earth instantly recognises his music from; ‘A Fistful of Dollars’, ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ and ‘For a Few Dollars More’. No-one had ever written scores for movies that were anything like this. Ennio Morricone used a variety of different instruments, styles and vocals for these films that resulted in a trilogy of musical masterpieces; hints of Flamenco guitar, spooky bursts of harmonica, bells and chanting vocals.
The influence that Ennio Morricone has had on modern music is incredible. His style can be heard in many genres of music from Pop, Rock and Heavy Metal to Grunge and Rap. Erasure covered one of his songs, Jay-Z cited him as a major influence and Muse’s ‘Knights of Cydonia’ draws heavily on his spaghetti western style both for the song itself and its accompanying video.
Just about every area of music has been touched by the work of Ennio Morricone. Lee Perry’s Dub tracks all had Morricone style titles and if he hadn’t of recorded those tracks then Rap would never have even come about.
Sergio Leone died in 1988 but Ennio continued to work with him right up until then. He is still writing soundtrack to this day and he is now in his eighty-first year. Above all else that Ennio Morricone has achieved is his making an art form of the film soundtrack. Until he came along the music was simply another part of the movie.
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