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Italian soundtrack composer
Ennio Morricone was a master of ambience and suspense whose soundtracks
relied on martial but slow rhythms, evocative melodies (often sung by
classical voices), that mixed exotic and almost sacred overtones with
a sense of nostalgy and of fatalism. His arrangements shunned the orchestra
and preferred to emphasize the timbres of the individual instruments
(particularly harmonica, trumpet and guitar) and the female voice.
He applied this austere style to a rather trivial genre,
Sergio Leone's "spaghetti westerns" Per Un Pugno di Dollari (1964) and
Il Buono Il Brutto Il Cattivo (1967), as well as other westerns such as
Don Siegel's Two Mules for Sister Sara (1969).
By the time Leone upped the
ante with the epic C'Era Una Volta il West/ Once Upon a Time in the West (1969), Morricone's
style approached the classical opera. He continued to refine the metaphysical
element of his music in Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 (1976) and
Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (1978), achieving in
Roland Joffe's Mission (1986) an almost liturgical peak.
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