becool-sodapop:

Christmas Is Coming
Vince Guaraldi 

Alexandre Desplat
“Sky Battle”
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Pt. 1 (2010)

528491ncepted:

obliviate, by alexandre desplat
from the deathly hallows soundtrack

the beginning starts off really quietly, but listen, and after about a minute, you start hearing the swells and it just takes your breath away. can you imagine sitting in the theater listening to this shiz?! ♥ 

i’m sitting in the theater right now and the movie is about to start!! :}

oldhollywood:

Ennio Morricone - The Ecstasy Of Gold (via The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

“’How does a film-maker make sure his music is heard? Let me give you an example. If someone has not been invited to a party, but wants to go, what does he do?’ [Ennio] Morricone acts out some noisy Italian bonhomie: ‘Hello everybody, hello.’

He pauses.

‘He doesn’t do this. He knocks at the door, asks for permission to come in, enters the house and then starts meeting people. The music in a film must enter politely, very slowly. The composer does not have to write music at the actual moment a character enters a room - it might be too much. So there is this slow, delicate entry, with a simple sound that allows the film-maker to lower the other, naturalistic sounds.

The human ear can distinguish no more than two sounds of different quality at the same time. Some very nice music doesn’t work because of that: if it is too strong, it can become an element that disturbs the film, rather than giving something to it. Yet in some cases the music must be very, very strong, when it is necessary to give a particular dynamic to the storytelling course of the film, rather than, say, a person’s feelings.”

-excerpted from Morricone profile “Screen Saver”, The Guardian (via)

Michael Giacchino
“Moving On”
Lost (2010)

Not much to say except this is one of the more emotionally wrenching pieces of original music ever written for the small screen.  Giacchino’s final love letter to the series, marrying the soft voices of piano and strings and not much else, is a proper sendoff indeed.

surrealism:

Dream sequence from 8 ½ by Federico Fellini, 1963. Score by Nino Rota. 3 minutes.

heresyourfuture:

14 - Angela Undress (via ElJovit)

oh thomas newman.  yes.

good night, my dears.

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - In The Hall of the Mountain King (via chris)

This piece is excellent on its own, and worked great in The Social Network’s soundtrack, as the backdrop to a crew race on the Thames, among other things.

topherchris:

Welcome To Lunar Industries by Clint Mansell

I can’t get this piano line out of my head.

I watched Moon again on Sunday night. As expected, it put me in a crummy mood for several hours because it’s so good at conveying dire loneliness. Totally worth it though.

maeby-:

“Intriguing Possibilities” — Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross