any other soundtracks similar to this???
any other sountracks that are loud, energetic, classic western like, and "bernsteinesque" (lol) soundtracks that i could find??? please name some
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MovieChat Forums > Quigley Down Under (1990) Discussion > any other soundtracks similar to this???
Several John Wayne westerns have the same basic music as Quiggley does. The difference is in how it was arranged. They tore it apart just a little bit and slapped it together again. Not so much that it is a totally "new" song, but not so close to the original that you could say that it was "stolen from"...
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"The Magnificent Seven"
"The Cowboys"
"Stagecoach" 1939
"Rio Grande"
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Surprised no one has mentioned Lonesome Dove, a fantastic western score by the same composer as Quigley - the late, great Basil Poledouris.
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Mentioned by one of the earlier posters were several films in which you'll find composer Dimitri Tiomkin's scores, and I think you'll enjoy his material. Among other films, he scored John Wayne's The Alamo, the same actor's The High and the Mighty, Red River, and Rio Bravo (the only man, I think, to work on both that rebuttal to High Noon and on High Noon as well).
Though as thoroughgoing a Russian as you'd ever care to meet (he also scored Taras Bulba; find "Ride to Dubno" sometime), Tiomkin had a particular affinity with the American West, and took to Westerns as if he'd invented them.
Other scores by Poledoris (particularly the one for Conan the Barbarian) might prove worth your time as well.
One of the very best Western scores of the 1950s was that of The Big Country, written by Jerome Moross, who also composed the theme for the TV series Wagon Train. Little else he had done is so memorable as the work he put into The Big Country, and the early sequence of "The Welcoming" is astonishingly well-made.
Finally, there's Max Steiner, who did yeoman work for decades in the film and TV industries, and composed the full scores for at least two hundred movies, including several of Errol Flynn's Westerns, Gone With the Wind, Sergeant York, Casablanca.... Well, look him up on IMDB; you'll be surprised. A great deal of his stuff is in current commercial release, courtesy of albums produced and conducted by Charles Gerhardt back in the '70s.
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"The Magnificent Seven" has a fine, rousing score.
"Shane" has a fine score as well, but it's more elegaic than rousing.
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I was kind of something. Seeimg who the composer was in the opening credits I was expecting a darker deeper score compared to say Conan, Red October, or his collaborations with Paul Verhoeven but this score reminded me repeatedly of the John Wayne film The Sons of Katie Elder which I saw mentioned as a similar score.