Hlao-roo 389 Posted October 6, 2004 Share Posted October 6, 2004 Craig Safan's The Last Starfighter comes to mind, if mostly for its main theme... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted October 6, 2004 Share Posted October 6, 2004 Brian Tyler's Children of Dune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted October 6, 2004 Author Share Posted October 6, 2004 See, I really wouldn't consider Brian Tyler a "minor" composer...he may not be well established, but he's definitely been widely recognized as one of the up-and-coming composers in Hollywood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danielle 0 Posted October 6, 2004 Share Posted October 6, 2004 Craig Safan's The Last Starfighter comes to mind, if mostly for its main theme...I agree, though I think the entire score (well... maybe not the dodgy synths...) is excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted October 6, 2004 Share Posted October 6, 2004 Well, I guess... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoby12 0 Posted October 6, 2004 Share Posted October 6, 2004 I think the guy who wrote the Levitra commercial did pretty good. You know that catchy whistle tune..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fommes 154 Posted October 6, 2004 Share Posted October 6, 2004 Christopher Gunning's Agatha Christie's Poirot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 6, 2004 Share Posted October 6, 2004 Aaahhh..wonderfull series, great title music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted October 6, 2004 Share Posted October 6, 2004 Dennis McCarthy- Star Trek: GenerationsNot as good as any of Goldsmith's or Horner's Trek scores (or Eidleman's VI, come to think of it), but it is still a quality score and highly underrated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Barnsbury 8 Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 Tuck Everlasting, if Ross is considered minor.Ray Barnsbury Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 Those composers I have one c.d. of:Laurence Rosenthal:Clash of the TitansJohn Scott:Greystoke,Legend of TarzanEd Shermur:Sky CaptainK.M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeshopk 8 Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 I secondLaurence Rosenthal:Clash of the Titans I'll have to get Greystoke on your recommendation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 I third it. Great theme!Damn now I cant get it out of my head! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoda Longbottom 0 Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 Christopher Gunning's Agatha Christie's Poirot.Am I entitled to disagree? Then please I would disagree with that as much as I can suppose you're referring to Poirot series with David Suchet starring, where the main theme is brilliant and so-called filler "underscore" differs more than you would expect from "a mere TV show" chapter by chapter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoda Longbottom 0 Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 Aaahhh..wonderfull series, great title music.So I concur with Steef! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoda Longbottom 0 Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 Ooops, yay yay. It's about the best, not worst. So my apologies to Lotman. with whom I too concur...Oopss ups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 and so-called filler "underscore" differs more than you would expect from "a mere TV show" chapter by chapter.Yeah, the underscore had an almost old-fasioned elegance that fitted perfectly with the series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Lewis 6 Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 Richard Harvey's Animal Farm, the TNT version. I never cease to praise this score, and yet I've found no-one to share my enthusiasm with. Not even Harvey himself - what else has he done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoda Longbottom 0 Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 Yeah, the underscore had an almost old-fasioned elegance that fitted perfectly with the series.In one early episode (one made between 1989 - 1991) whose title I can't recall (it's where Poirot and Hastings go far by train to gather some testimony from an old woman living in the forlorn cottage surrounded by large meadows) there is music similar to what later made body of main theme to Vangelis' Conquest of Paradise.I bet Vangelis didn't intentionally borrow. He could have watched the episode, unintentionally memorized the tune that reappears a few times in the episode (but never more outside the particular episode) and when composing the main theme to Conquest, that memorized chord progression could have jumped into the quill while penning the music and there it was. Same as Beethoven transcribed some bird's melody line he heard during walks in the park into his famous opening of the fifth's. Work of subconsciousness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 Durango by Mark McKenzie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendal_Ozzel 36 Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 Angela's Ashes - John WilliamsCrap, I think read that wrong. It's not best score composed in minor... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fommes 154 Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 If you consider Mark Snow a minor composer, well then:The X-Files: Fight the Future.Yann Tiersen: Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain.Before his last score, Edward Shearmur: Johnny English.Dirk Brossé: Daens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted October 7, 2004 Author Share Posted October 7, 2004 Yeah, my next thread will be "Best score by a diminished composer," followed possibly by "Best score by an augmented composer"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted October 7, 2004 Author Share Posted October 7, 2004 Richard Harvey's Animal Farm, the TNT version. I never cease to praise this score, and yet I've found no-one to share my enthusiasm with. Not even Harvey himself - what else has he done?Share your love with Christian Clemmensen...*cough* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Barnsbury 8 Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 Yeah, my next thread will be "Best score by a diminished composer," followed possibly by "Best score by an augmented composer"...Hah! I wouldn't have gotten that three months ago, but I'm taking a basic music theory course this semester. You could even do "Best score by a perfect composer."Ray Barnsbury Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldsmithfan 6 Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 Definitely LoDuca's Army of Darkness if you consider him a minor composer. The whole trilogy is great, but with each film, he got better and came out with this wonderful finale to the series. If you haven't heard it, you have to! Not really, but you know what I mean. I'm not sure if David Shire is minor (probably not) but I like his score to Return to Oz quite a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 Pino Donaggio's Carrie, or Dressed to Kill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigKenLittle 6 Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 Pino Donaggio's Carrie, or Dressed to KillThis man has taste, people!!! Dressed to Kill is fantastic!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,239 Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 Of course DTK is great. :thumbsup:Yann Tiersen: Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie PoulainGreat choice.Let me add:Stephen Endelman: The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A MountainChristopher Gordon: Moby DickMarian - MGV (Michael Nyman) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSM 126 Posted October 8, 2004 Share Posted October 8, 2004 Marc Shaiman - The American PresidentEdward Shearmur - Count of Monte CristoDon Davis - Jurassic Park III Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted October 8, 2004 Share Posted October 8, 2004 Pino Donaggio's Carrie, or Dressed to KillThis man has taste, people!!! Dressed to Kill is fantastic!!!Ken, did you see Dressed to Kill back in 1980 at the theater, man what a great experience,I saw it and ESB mulitple times that summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted October 8, 2004 Share Posted October 8, 2004 Of course DTK is great. :thumbsup:Yann Tiersen: Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie PoulainGreat choice.One thing though. Amelie isn't exactly what you considerer a film score, since none of it was composed specificly for the movie. All the music was taken from Yann Tiersen previous albuns.Romão, who has seen Tiersen live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted October 8, 2004 Share Posted October 8, 2004 I have yet to see Amélie, but I love Tiersen's work on Good Bye Lenin!- Marc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,239 Posted October 8, 2004 Share Posted October 8, 2004 One thing though. Amelie isn't exactly what you considerer a film score, since none of it was composed specificly for the movie. All the music was taken from Yann Tiersen previous albuns.Oh? I thought only some of it was written before the movie?Marian - who wants to hear more Tiersen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fommes 154 Posted October 8, 2004 Share Posted October 8, 2004 One thing though. Amelie isn't exactly what you considerer a film score, since none of it was composed specificly for the movie. All the music was taken from Yann Tiersen previous albuns.I know, but it's quite exceptional and I thought I'd mention it here.Romão, who has seen Tiersen live.Lotman, who has seen him live as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted October 8, 2004 Share Posted October 8, 2004 Actually, Marian, I think only a couple of tracks were composed for the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John McClane 1 Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 Craig Armstrong - The Bone CollectorMark Mancina - Bad Boys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris ChrusherComix 46 Posted October 10, 2004 Share Posted October 10, 2004 Vince DiCola for Transformers: The Movie and honorable mention to Rocky IV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted October 10, 2004 Share Posted October 10, 2004 Another one : Shaun Davey: The Tailor of Panama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,239 Posted October 10, 2004 Share Posted October 10, 2004 Shaun Davey, eh? I only have his lovely Twelfth Night; other than that, all I know by him is Waking Ned.Marian - who also wants to hear more from him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted October 10, 2004 Share Posted October 10, 2004 You should listen to Tailor of Panama, it's a great score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigKenLittle 6 Posted October 10, 2004 Share Posted October 10, 2004 Pino Donaggio's Carrie, or Dressed to KillThis man has taste, people!!! Dressed to Kill is fantastic!!!Ken, did you see Dressed to Kill back in 1980 at the theater, man what a great experience,I saw it and ESB mulitple times that summer.Sadly, because the movie was rated R, I was not allowed to see it first run in 1980. The first time I experienced it was on a beta videocassette at a friend's home during a sleep-over. This goes to show the strength of the score, after hearing it only once, and in MONO, I asked my mother to let me order it from Starlog magazine. She did, and I have never regretted it!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted October 10, 2004 Share Posted October 10, 2004 Another one : Shaun Davey: The Tailor of Panama. Been listening to that lately. It's very good (though I think his orchestrations are a bit off at times). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mari 279 Posted October 10, 2004 Share Posted October 10, 2004 Shaun Davey, eh? I only have his lovely Twelfth Night; other than that, all I know by him is Waking Ned.Marian - who also wants to hear more from him.I've liked what I've heard of him so far, and should check into his music more as well. If you can find it, you might enjoy his Relief Of Derry Symphony.Kathy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,239 Posted October 10, 2004 Share Posted October 10, 2004 Relief of Derry? I'll keep it in mind, thanks. Marian - who wants a good DVD release for Twelfth Night. The Mists of Avalon (Lee Holdridge) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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