The Big Country: Music by Jerome Moross
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Composer: Jerome MorossOrchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1995-09-19
Music Label: Silva America
Soundtracks:
- The Big Country: Main Title
- The Big Country: Julie's House
- The Big Country: The Welcoming
- The Big Country: Courtin' Time
- The Big Country: Old Thunder
- The Big Country: The Raid & Capture
- The Big Country: Major Terrill's Party: Dance I
- The Big Country: Major Terrill's Party: Dance II
- The Big Country: Major Terrill's Party: Waltz
- The Big Country: Major Terrill's Party: Polka
- The Big Country: McKay's Ride, McKay Is Missing, The Old House
- The Big Country: Waiting
- The Big Country: The Big Muddy
- The Big Country: McKay Alone, Night At Ladder Ranch, The Fight
- The Big Country: Cattle At The River
- The Big Country: Attempted Rape
- The Big Country: The War Party Gathers, McKay In Blanco Canyon, The Major Alone
- The Big Country: The Duel, Death Of Buck Hennassey, End Title
Music reviews of The Big Country: Music by Jerome Moross
Music Review: A model of the genre
Rating: 5 Stars
This is music full of an epic inspiration, you will feel disoriented just listening to it ! Jerome Moross (1913-1983) transcribed simple themes of the traditional music from the South of the USA, just as Max Steiner had done before for the score for Gone with the wind. The orchestrations are absolutely outstanding and this is precisely the composer's main credit : having been able to adapt for the cinema the cultural patrimony of an area by valorising it through a rich and creative symphonic orchestration. To begin a piece with the violin semiquavers, what a brilliant idea ! Good arrangers have a perfect knowledge of the possibility each instrument has to offer and they know how to get the best out of them. Those violins with their rigorous and vigorous rhythmic announce the leitmotiv theme for the main actor of the film : the big country. As for the wind instruments, they have a lot to do to keep the tempo and prove themselves up to the enthusiastic strings, the accompaniment by the wind instruments sounds like an echo, demonstrating the very good grasp Jerome Moross has of the art : he created a powerful rhythm without using any percussion, except for the inevitable timpani.
Some people in the industry despise the work done by arrangers - provided they even acknowledge their existence, of course... Can you believe that ? Jerome Moross worked a lot for the film industry, not mostly as a melodist or a composer, but rather as an "obscure" arranger, working behind the scenes so to speak, which is much to his credit. His knowledge of American folk music, his passion for westerns, his collaborations with - just to name a few if you please - Aaron Copland, Georges Gershwin, Franz Waxman, David Raskin and his great friend Bernard Hermann (responsible for the scores of Hitchcock's films) put him in the top few musicians who brought a lot to the Majors, especially during the Great Depression of the 1930s. In 1944, he composed a symphony for piano and strings. And this is a fact : the music he composed for The Big Country will remain a model of the genre. In fact, the film itself is a remarkable piece of work. The London Philharmonic Orchestra made new recordings of this music from original scores, conducted by Tony Bremner (thank you, you English gentlemen, for honouring so brilliantly film symphonic music !).
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