Rome: Music from the HBO Series

Rome: Music from the HBO Series

Rome: Music from the HBO Series
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Composer: Jeff Beal
Edition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2007-02-20
Music Label: Rykodisc
Soundtracks:
  1. Rome Main Title Theme
  2. The Forum
  3. Terrible News
  4. Niobe's Theme
  5. The Battle Has Begun (Caesar's Theme)
  6. Octavian & Octavia's Themes
  7. Riot In The Senate, Pullo Finds The Gold
  8. Caesar Reunites With Servilla
  9. Janus Breaks
  10. Marshall Law, The Temple
  11. Caesar's Seizure
  12. Hell Hath No Fury
  13. Vorenus Made Evocati, Servillia's Curse
  14. Farwells, The Storm
  15. The Raft
  16. The Death Of Pompey
  17. Octavia Seduces Octavian
  18. Cleopatra Seduces Caesar
  19. Triumph
  20. Mark Antony & Atia
  21. Vorenus Saves Pullo
  22. The Murder Of Julius Caesar
  23. Niobe's Fate

Music reviews of Rome: Music from the HBO Series

Music Review: Good soundtrack but it's only the first series
Rating: 4 Stars

When I grew up the accepted authority on Roman Empire music was the Hungarian composer Miklos Rozsa who wrote the music for such films as "Ben Hur" and "Quo Vadis". Rozsa's music was epic and stirring but probably had very little to do with real Roman music.

Jeff Beal has taken a completely different approach in writing the music for the highly authentic mini-series "Rome". The music is basically a combination of ancient Roman and modern orchestral instruments arranged together in such a way to suggest how ancient Roman music must have sounded but still be accessible to modern ears and I think this approach has worked really well. Flutes are used a lot and we know this was a common instrument in Roman times. There is also an oriental flavour to a lot of the pieces but don't expect much epic stuff in the Rozsa style.

I don't have much to criticize but there seems to be nothing here from series 2 which disappointed me as I particularly missed the exuberant joyful music from the wedding of Mark Antony and Octavia as one example from the second series. Perhaps a second volume will be released at some stage.

In any case this is definitely a worthwhile companion to the TV series.

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Description of Rome: Music from the HBO Series

After Carnivŕle, Jeff Beal has given HBO another Emmy-nominated score, this time for the tale of sex, politics, and togas known as Rome. There's a long history of fabulously grand scores in the sword-and-sandals genre (Miklós Rózsa's Ben-Hur, Alex North's Cleopatra) but according to Beal HBO wasn't interested in classic big orchestral compositions, so he worked on a smaller--yet still lush--scale that emphasizes the ethnic instruments that could be found in the farther reaches of the Roman Empire. A Middle Eastern influence, for instance, can clearly be heard on "Rome Main Title Theme," "The Forum" and "Janus Breaks," among many others. If there's one signature sound on the CD, it's the recurring use of the flute, which can suggest emotions ranging from romantic ("Octavian & Octavia's Themes") to melancholy (paired with strings on "Farewells, the Storm") to dread (combined with percussion on "Caesar's Seizure"). The album starts running out of steam about two thirds of the way through, however, making one pine for a bit of orchestral bang for one's buck. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

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