Ennio Morricone: In His Own Words
Author: Ennio Morricone
Editor Alessandro De Rosa
Country: England
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Pages: 368
ISBN-10: 0190681012
ISBN-13: 978-0190681012
Available: March 1, 2019
Master composer Ennio Morricone's scores go hand-in-hand
with the idea of the Western film. Often considered the world's greatest living
film composer, and most widely known for his innovative scores to The Good, the
Bad, and the Ugly and the other Sergio Leone's movies, The Mission, Cinema
Paradiso and more recently, The Hateful Eight, Morricone has spent the past 60
years reinventing the sound of cinema. In Ennio Morricone: In His Own Words,
composers Ennio Morricone and Alessandro De Rosa present a years-long
discussion of life, music, and the marvelous and unpredictable ways that the
two come into contact with and influence each other. The result is what
Morricone himself defines: "beyond a shadow of a doubt the best book ever
written about me, the most authentic, the most detailed and well curated. The
truest."
Opening for the first time the door of his creative
laboratory, Morricone offers an exhaustive and rich account of his life, from
his early years of study to genre-defining collaborations with the most
important Italian and international directors, including Leone, Bertolucci,
Pasolini, Argento, Tornatore, Malick, Carpenter, Stone, Nichols, De Palma,
Beatty, Levinson, Almodovar, Polanski and Tarantino. In the process, Morricone
unveils the curious relationship that links music and images in cinema, as well
as the creative urgency at the foundation of his experimentations with
"absolute music." Throughout these conversations with De Rosa,
Morricone dispenses invaluable insights not only on composing but also on the
broader process of adaptation and what it means to be human. As he reminds us,
"Coming into contact with memories doesn't only entail the melancholy of
something that slips away with time, but also looking forward, understanding
who I am now. And who knows what else may still happen."
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