Once Upon a Time in the West专辑介绍
莱昂内于1968年拍摄的《西部往事》(Once Upon a Time in the West)中，“好坏丑结构”保留了下来。色厉内荏的大胡子夏延的主题，由幽默调侃的班卓琴演奏。世界观众很难忘记那凄厉哽咽、刺人心肺的口琴声，更难忘那牵动着人类共有的怀旧情结，仿佛飘过了无限时空的女高音无言哼唱。在使得莱昂内——莫里康内的代表作《西部往事》成为不朽名作的诸多因素中，音乐所起的作用再大不过了。“往事主题”具有的穿透力和强大感染力，为一般影片配乐不能相提并论。那辽阔宽广、舒缓动人、含义深刻的旋律是无法用语言来形容的。“住事主题”是莫里康内的代表作，又是世界电影音乐的颠峰之作。在用各种文字书写的有关这位作曲家的介绍或评论文章中，它是人们必然要涉及的一段音乐，同时又是上至影评家、下到普通观众以及无数音乐爱好者永远怀着赞叹和敬畏之情去聆听、去谈论的一段音乐。其迷人的音色、流畅的旋律和隽永的风格，对世界各国的许多影片产生了影响。
After deconstructing the classic American Western by way of The Good, the Bad & the Ugly and A Fistful of Dollars, director Sergio Leone distilled his intentions with 1968's Once Upon a Time in the West, arguably a milestone for both Leone and his musical cohort, Ennio Morricone. For his part, Morricone framed Leone's meditative camera work and mythic narrative with a mix of hauntingly spacious pieces and reconfigured snatches of old-timey tunes. Just within the stretch of the first four pieces here, Morricone evokes the endless expanse of the West with a Copland-esque aria (the main title theme), weaves some twisted grit into the showdown theme with loads of guitar fuzz ("As a Judgment"), ingeniously combines whistling and a clippity-clop rhythm for a respite piece ("Farewell to Cheyenne"), and conjures the surreal end of the cowboy mythos via a wonderfully disjointed serial-style number ("The Transgression"). And whether sounding upbeat or stark, Morricone informs it all with the dry and windswept vacancy of the West. Beautiful and stunning.
After deconstructing the classic American Western by way of The Good, the Bad & the Ugly and A Fistful of Dollars, director Sergio Leone distilled his intentions with 1968's Once Upon a Time in the West, arguably a milestone for both Leone and his musical cohort, Ennio Morricone. For his part, Morricone framed Leone's meditative camera work and mythic narrative with a mix of hauntingly spacious pieces and reconfigured snatches of old-timey tunes. Just within the stretch of the first four pieces here, Morricone evokes the endless expanse of the West with a Copland-esque aria (the main title theme), weaves some twisted grit into the showdown theme with loads of guitar fuzz ("As a Judgment"), ingeniously combines whistling and a clippity-clop rhythm for a respite piece ("Farewell to Cheyenne"), and conjures the surreal end of the cowboy mythos via a wonderfully disjointed serial-style number ("The Transgression"). And whether sounding upbeat or stark, Morricone informs it all with the dry and windswept vacancy of the West. Beautiful and stunning.
Once Upon a Time in the West专辑歌曲
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