Dragonslayer | Soundtrack Suite (Alex North)
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
- Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1981). Composed and Conducted by Alex North.
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Music Awards:
- None
Nomination:
- Academy Award - Best Original Score
Playlist:
00:00 Main Title
02:02 No Sorcerers / No Dragons
02:50 Ulrich's Death and Mourning / The Amulet
03:27 Forest Romp
04:39 Visions And Reflections / Hodge's Death
05:46 Galen Jailed / Galen's Escape
07:02 Dejection / Eclipse / Resurrection Of Ulrich
09:20 Galen's Search For The Amulet
10:26 Dragon Sore-ing
11:34 'Tis The Final Conflict
13:13 Intro To End Credits / End Credits
Music Source:
La-La Land Records LLLCD 1128
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Vermithrax Pejorative is till my favourite onscreen dragon.
What we have hear is one of Alex North's last scores but what an interesting one it is! This fantasy picture is filled with major atonal orchestrations for the ensemble. I almost had to included every tonal composition there is (e.g. Forest Romp) to get some kind of a listenable balance.
The score, however reminds me of another North gem: his unused music for the Stanley Kubrick epic 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Enjoy!
Around 1993 or so, Varese Sarabande released North's previously "unheard" score for 2001: A Space Odessey. The liner notes indicated that much of the score for Dragonslayer actually comes from that unused score, even pointing out specific cues for specific moments. Dragonslayer's original trailer featured the music of Gustav Mahler's magnificent First Symphony ("The Titan"). It was a THRILLING trailer, with Mahler's lush, orchestral, melodramic style perfectly matched for the onscreen pathos. When the film was finally released, however, I was let down hard. I was about 13 at the time, but was already well-exposed to atonality, already a big listener of that style of music. North's score was simply wrong for the film, I believed. To me, it took away from the thrill and the fun.
I am actually currently working on creating an entirely new audio track for Dragonslayer completely from scratch, from vocals and sound effects to the music score. In addition, I'm re-editing the film a bit, trimming down some bloat, tightening some scenes, and trying to make Ralph Richardson's character a bit more relevant. (After his death in the first 10 minutes, he is largely forgotten until the very end.) At the moment, I'm compiling sound effects and recruiting voices. No idea if I'll use other film music, or draw from the classical repertoire, or just compose one myself. Obviously, the latter would be the most difficult by far, and would extend the project from a few weeks to a full year or more. But I've had ideas for this score knocking around in my head for years (there are already motifs for virtually every significant character), and I'm not finding what I want from existing material. I know that some might consider replacing the score blasphemous. But when the ENTIRE AUDIO TRACK is being outright replaced, the sin seems much smaller. My intent to NOT to "modernize" the film in any way; there will be no "quick cut" editing or mere sound effect musical score. I want to keep the film precisely in the era in which it was made. I just want to create the version which, as a Dungeon's & Dragons-playing 13-year old kid, I wanted to see. And I hope others will enjoy the effort when it is finished, too.
@@Captain-Cosmo Any progress? I would greatly enjoy seeing and hearing your version, however it turned out.
Speaking of his last scores Good Morning Vietnam is quite beautiful too. Listen to ”Village” from the score.That was his last score.
This score is a masterpiece. I have listened to it over the years since I saw this film in theaters. Brilliant score.
Henry Brandt is almost a co-composer of this greats score. His orchestration of North's score are in his voice. North once said of the frequent use of orchestrators in Hollywood and how much they contribute to the whole that he likes his orchestrators to earn their keep..
I loved this movie and its soundtrack. I recorded it on VHS from HBO perhaps 35 years ago, and, when wakeful after a night shift, would sleep on my couch with the tape in the VCR.
Dragonslayer looks better on VHS and old TVs than on HD, Blu-ray, and the newer DVDs.
Along with his score for Spartacus, Alex North's score for Dragonslayer in my opinion is his greatest ever. I wish so badly that this soundtrack could be made available to buy on iTunes🤞🙏🤞
The Dragonslayer soundtrack is easily up there alongside other legendary Fantasy-based soundtracks such as The Lord of The Rings+The Hobbit, Conan The Barbarian, Game of Thrones, Willow, Krull, Ladyhawke, The Beastmaster and Excalibur to name a few.
Far better than "TLotR" one of the greatest - most ignored and least understood.
@@marcallen4532 I don't know about 'far better than LOTR' but the Dragonslayer soundtrack is definitely phenomenal. Both Alex North's Dragonslayer soundtrack & all of Howard Shore's Middle-Earth music are both worldclass.
we need North's AFRICA back on youtube!! that, this, and the original Brant recordings of 2001 are a unique and very special slice of Alex North heaven -- absolutely in love with that sound!!
Besser und spannender als eine gewöhnliche moderne klassische Musik. Echt genialer Komponist/Dirigent!
Amazing soundtrack...
One of the best
You did it, Fred, like you said you would! Thanks!
This movie I saw several times on TV. Good special effects...and good acting from all the cast. Disney produced a good dragon, sound and all. I especially liked Sir Ralph Richardson's part as the retiring wizard. It wasn't too long afterward he passed away, if I'm not mistaken.
Thanks again, Fred. I look forward to the next "edition" from you.
Thank you, Tom!
The dragon holds its own very well against the CGI of today. Better, even; even the best CGI still manages to look computer-created, in my opinion.
@@geraldeisenhower664 The scenes with the dragon in the cave were well done, but you can see some pretty obvious matte lines on some of the flying sequences. At least, you could when first released and on VHS. The shots may have been cleaned up digitally in the meantime. But the SFX were rushed in order to get the film released on schedule and it showed.
The Sore was amazing in this. People often neglect how the music can shape the tone of certain scenes with in a movie .Unfortunately they don't incorporate a musical score with in modern cinema . John Williams , Danny elfmen , Basil Poledoris and Alex north really helped shape the sound scape of the 80's and helped set the whole tone for the decade .
All hail! Vermithrax Pejorative! Queen of Hollywood dragons!
Bass line is really ominous sounding and eerie.
Cool and under-rated film with good old Albert Salmi probably in one of his last movies. Oh yea, he was in Caddyshack early on.
Forest Romp 🌟
North could write really beautiful melody when he set his mind to it. The post modernist semi music is interesting, but I wish he would have kept it more in the background for some dark texture and gone with that gorgeous waltz as the main theme.
so far Alex North sounds like the most original composer for me. Maybe close to Moricone? It is hard to detect this influences in concert music as we can do with other composers. I see a lot of Bartok/Stravinsly things, but very far away
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Make another movie one of the best dragon movies ever
Absolutely agree. The dragon sequences were incredible. And the sounds. When the dragon inhaled. Pause. Pause. Then doom.
Pretty sure Dragon Sore-ing is adapted from Space Station Docking in the rejected 2001 score.
why the HELL this isn’t on Blu Ray??!!
rights issues its a paramount/disney/ILM production
It just got released in 4K bluray this month.
@@soundtreks not in the uk *sigh*
Triple like
I wonder if Paramount didn't buy the Alex North recorded music for 2001, just as 20th Century Fox did with some Jerry Goldsmith music from an earlier picture (Freud, I believe) for some cues in Alien? Would save money on the number of minutes of music to be composed, dragons being expensive to render, and all. Whatever ones thinks of the music on its own terms, it's use in the movie is at times downright weird. The retrieving of the amulet scene, for instance, has all this brass screaming out ridiculously dissonant chords, and even the more lighthearted cues sound heavy and foreboding in scenes that are neither. Comparing with Excalibur and its at times awkward use of Wagner climaxes, it seems getting the music right in these kinds of pictures proved difficult in that era. But arguably the tone of the picture is itself somewhat inconsistent, not able to decide if it wants to be dark and violent a la Excalibur, or lighthearted and adventurous a la Star Wars, making the job of the composer that much more difficult. And who knows what directions North received from the director? In any case, whether North or the director blew it, or Paramount went cheap with cues off the rack, the end result is music not quite fitted to the (variable) tone of the picture, or even at times the action on the screen. I enjoyed the picture as a teen when it first came out, but was impatient the last time I saw it as an adult about ten years ago, and the strange music played a big role in my impatience with the whole thing.
How about Planet of the Apes and Spartacus
@@rbu2136 What are you asking?
North did as he pleased and produced one of the greatest film scores of all time.
@@marcallen4532 it is awesome. They don’t make scores like this anymore.
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