Ennio Morricone, the composer best known for scoring 'Spaghetti Westerns,' explores the art of crafting film music
Ennio Morricone in 2016 Photo: Grzegorz Galazka/Mondadori Portfolio/Getty Images By Terry Teachout March 27, 2019 5:57 p.m. ET Which classical violinist has been heard by the largest number of people? Was it Jascha Heifetz? Itzhak Perlman? I’d put my money on…Louis Kaufman. Don’t be surprised if you’ve never heard of him, though. He’s best remembered not for his immaculate performances of the concertos of Vivaldi but for his day job: Mr.
If you’re looking for a gossipy memoir, go elsewhere. “In His Own Words” presupposes a fair amount of musical knowledge going in, and it also assumes that you’ll know a lot about the many Italian movies that Mr. Morricone has scored. But read it with patience and respect and you’ll learn plenty about the subtle craft of film scoring and the career of one of its most eminent practitioners.
Even more revealing is that while Mr. Morricone is a supremely great melodist, timbre—the instrumental “color” of a piece of music—is for him the first and most important aspect of composing. “Only afterward,” he says, “do I reflect on the form, the structure underlying a musical composition.” Because of this preference, and believing as he does that “orchestration is an integral part of musical thinking,” he always orchestrates his own scores.
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