The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Soundtrack
Posted on August 22, 2009
MusicThe Score was composed by Ennio Morricone, an Italian composer. Well-versed in a variety of musical idioms, Morricone began composing film scores in the early ’60s.[5] Though his first films were undistinguished, Morricone’s arrangement of an American folk song intrigued director and former schoolmate Sergio Leone. Leone hired Morricone and together they created a distinctive score to accompany Leone’s different version of the Western, A Fistful of Dollars (1964).[5] As budget strictures limited Morricone’s access to a full orchestra, he used gunshots, cracking whips, whistle, voices, Sicilian Jew’s harp, trumpets, and the new Fender electric guitar, rather than orchestral arrangements of Western standards à la John Ford. Morricone used his special effects to punctuate and comically tweak the action.
Quentin Tarantino originally wanted Morricone to do the soundtrack for his most recent film, Inglourious Basterds. However Morricone refused, because of the sped-up production schedule of the film.




