A CD I put together for somebody who was asking me about movie music and instrumental music (tossed in a few old standards as well, some instrumental works, and a little TV stuff):
Part 1 -- Introduction
Track 1 -- THX Trailer (this is the music you often hear in theaters when they are about to play the previews)
Track 2 -- Fox Fanfare
Part 2 -- Space
Track 3 -- Star Wars (Princess Leia Theme), by John Williams(movie nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture, 1977)
Track 4 -- Music from the soundtrack to the PBS show Cosmos (Space/Time Continuum: Heaven and Hell Pt.1 (Vangelis)/Shostakovich Symphony No.11 (excerpt)/Alpha (Vangelis))
(This is from a CD, recently reissued, of orchestral works used in the PBS TV series Cosmos) ... amazon.com
Track 5 -- Brian Eno, An Ending (Ascent) (From Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks) (1986) (used as soundtrack for NASA films about Apollo program)
Part 3 -- Movies and America
Track 6 -- James Earl Jones, Baseball Speech (from the movie Field of Dreams) (1989)
Track 7 -- James Horner, Field of Dreams (excerpt of movie music) (1989) (there is another excerpt I have that is even better but there wasn't room for it so I chose this one instead) (movie nominated for Academy Award, best picture, 1989) (also named one of 100 Greatest Films ever filmsite.org )
Track 8 -- Now We Are Free from the soundtrack of Gladiator (winner of Academy Award for best picture, 2000)
Track 9 -- Thomas Newman, Music from the soundtrack to American Beauty) (excerpt)(winner of Academy Award for best picture, 1999) (there are two soundtrack albums, this one is from the actual Thomas Newman score from the movie, which is a haunting, beautiful piece of work) (1999) amazon.com
Track 10 - Scott Joplin, The Entertainer (from the soundtrack of the movie, The Sting) (winner of Academy Award, best picture, 1973) (the first Oscar winning film I ever saw in a theatre) (an example of American ragtime music from the 1890's)
Track 11 -- The Battle Cry of Freedom (from the soundtrack of the PBS TV Series The Civil War, by Ken Burns)
Track 12 -- Summertime (Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong) (from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess)
Track 13 -- Make Someone Happy, Jimmy Durante (an old classic American song re-released on the soundtrack to Sleepless in Seattle)
Track 14 -- In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning, Frank Sinatra
Track 15 -- Wynton Marsalis, Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child (trumpet version ..... there are hundreds of versions of this song around, many sung with the lyrics, but Marsalis' trumpet playing makes this version my favorite)
Track 16 -- Judy Garland, Somewhere Over The Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz) (nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture, 1939, but lost out to Gone With The Wind)
Track 17 -- Courage (from The Wizard of Oz) (1939)
Track 18 -- Hope Theme (from The Shawshank Redemption) (nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture in 1994, but lost out to Forrest Gump)
Part 4 -- Scotland
Track 19 -- Opening narration and music from Braveheart ("I shall tell you of William Wallace") (music by James Horner) (movie won Academy Award for Best Picture in 1995)
Track 20 -- "Scotland is Free" (Mel Gibson lines from Braveheart)
Track 21 -- Freedom, from James Horner soundtrack to Braveheart
Track 22 --Amazing Grace (Scottish bagpipe version) (from the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) |
