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Ennio Morricone’s Elegiac and Powerful Soundtracks of 1968
Mark Lager
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December 2020
Ennio Morricone is one of the most influential and renowned film composers. There is an alchemy, a magic, inside Ennio Morricone’s best compositions. It is a blurring of the boundaries and definitions existing between genres. His film scores do not abide by conventions and break the rules. The metamorphoses and transformations are what make Morricone’s soundtracks so special. He followed his father Mario’s guidance in learning how to play the trumpet. His early employment during the 1950s was in a jazz band. Yet he also had knowledge of classical music from his years of studies at the prestigious Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under the tutelage of Goffredo Petrassi. He combined in his own compositions the attention to details from his conservatory education with the improvisation and risk taking of his jazz playing. This led him to become a studio arranger at RCA Victor an