John Williams - The Cowboys: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Artist: John WilliamsEdition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1995-05-09
Music Label: Varese Sarabande
Soundtracks:
- Main Title
- Schoolboys Or Cowboys?
- Learning The Ropes
- Wild Horses
- Deserted
- Crazy Alice
- Alternate Main Title
- The Ranch
- Overture
- Bedtime Story
- Rustlers
- Stealing Back The Heard
- Nightfall
- A Sad Day
- Into The Trap
- The Drive
- Summer's Over
Free Music Notes for The Cowboys: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Free Music Review: A rousing western score
Hit: 4 Stars
This is one of those scores that put Williams "on the map" before he became a hot commodity with Jaws. It's not hard to see why. This is a funfilled, rousing score filled with delightful Copland-esque Americana. Of course, the highlight is the brilliant title track, a fast-paced western fanfare, sure to put a smile on anyone's face. This theme is broken down and distributed through the rest of the score, and it never fails to lift the action from the depths of boredom (which happens in a few spots). There's a very lovely slow theme as well, and a couple of other themes mixed in, all very nice. Plenty of 'cowboy music' abound
There are also a couple of bonus items here. "Overture" is sort of the 'pre-thoughts' on what later became The Cowboys Overture, which was a common piece on Williams's pops concerts. And the "Alternate Main Title" is a totally seperate piece, which he obviously abandoned -- it's still very good, sounding very much like an Elmer Bernstein western theme.
A downside is the sound -- it's not that good. It's much better than many others though. But the good far outweighs the bad here, and I recommend this score to all who like westerns, Williams, and/or good melodies.
The Cowboys: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Poster
In a career that's spanned five decades, composer John Williams has scored fewer than five Westerns, which--judging from his exemplary work on this 1972 score for director Mark Rydell's story of a tough veteran cowpoke (John Wayne) helping to bring a group of inexperienced young hands to manhood on a cattle drive--seems something of a shame. Williams offers up a robust, brassy score that leans heavily on the same prime Aaron Copland influences that informed Elmer Bernstein's Magnificent Seven and Jerome Moross's The Big Country. This fine Varese Sarabande release, notable for the presence and clarity of its recording, also features an unused alternate main title and other previously unreleased music from the film. --Jerry McCulleySoundtracks Music CDs
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