The Alamo
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Composer: Carter BurwellEdition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2004-04-06
Music Label: Hollywood Records
Soundtracks:
- Flesh And Honor
- 300 Miles Of Snow
- What We're Defending
- El Bexareno
- La Zandunga
- Who Took Their Loved Ones
- Listen To The Mockingbird Sing
- The Evacuation Of Bexar
- The Calm After The Storm
- The Visitation Of Saint Ursula
- Quiet Mountain
- They Ain't Bear
- Bonham's Ride
- Sell Our Lives Dearly
- Night Falls On The Alamo
- Deguello De Crockett
- The Last Night
- The Battle Of The Alamo, Part 1
- The Battle Of The Alamo, Part 2
- The Battle Of The Alamo, Part 3
- The Battle Of The Alamo, Part 4
- The Battle Of The Alamo, Part 5
- The Battle Of The Alamo, Part 6
- The Death Of Crockett
- Runaway Scrape
- Blood, Or Texas
Free Music Notes for The Alamo
Free Music Review: when did film music get this good?
Hit: 5 Stars
Carter Buswell's eclectic score underscores the emotional urgency of the film it accompanied. Of the two products, it may prove the more enduring.
At times lush, at other times haunting, occasionally hokey--in keeping with the down-home and humorous moments of the film's narrative--Buswell has married banjos, snare drums, and conventional orchestral scoring to produce twenty-six musical vignettes of remarkable emotional potency.
This is not great stand-alone music. But it is a very fine motion picture soundtrack perfectly tailored for a film that traffics in heroism and bold lines rather than nuance and subtlety.
A keeper.
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Carter Burwell cut his film scoring teeth on many a Coen brothers movie, quickly gaining a reputation for a quirky, human-scaled inventiveness that informed everything from jazz and folk to orchestral music and even the well-timed nod to Morricone. That often introspective sensibility is well paired to director John Lee Hancock's revisionist take on the legend of San Antonio's fabled doomed fortress, which focuses more on the conflicted human dimensions of its characters than familiar cardboard, pop culture heroics. Burwell's use of orchestral pomp is deliberate and decidedly restrained; more often the composer leans on spare, evocative passages of simple, though ever-inventive folk-based music (like the elegiac "Quiet Mountain") played by various combinations of guitar, banjo, and violin. Vintage traditional Mexican and American tunes are also given their atmospheric due via Jennifer Hammond's and Craig Eastman's arrangements of "La Zandunga" and "Listen to the Mockingbird Sing," respectively. But its Burwell's own peculiarly modernist instincts that inform both tradition ("Crockett's DeGuello") and his own masterfully understated cues, particularly the bleak, almost gothic emotional landscape of his six-part "Battle of the Alamo Suite" and its bittersweet coda, "Blood or Texas." --Jerry McCulleySoundtracks Music CDs
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