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It's "Days of Heaven" for Morricone and FSM

July 23, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

This has been a tremendous year for writer/director Terrence Malick. The filmmaker's latest effort, The Tree of Life, won the coveted Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and the film's weighty subject matter and oblique, nonlinear structure has made it one of the most talked-about pictures of the year.

Just yesterday, Film Score Monthly indirectly addressed the minor Malick-mania by announcing a deluxe reissue of the Oscar-nominated score to Malick's Days of Heaven (1978). The two-years-in-the-making tale of two lovers (Richard Gere and Brooke Adams) who conspire to bilk a farmer out of his fortune benefitted from the work of composer Ennio Morricone to accompany the gorgeous, Oscar-winning cinematography.

Morricone's romantically thematic score is unique in that the composer freely allowed Malick to rearrange and edit his cues to fit the picture as he wished. This unique arrangement leads to three playlists on the two-disc set: one one disc, the original soundtrack LP and all the cues used in the final cut of the film, and another disc of Morricone's complete score.

This score is an unlimited release and can be ordered here. Have a look at the track list after the jump!

Days of Heaven: Music from the Motion Picture (Film Score Monthly Vol. 14, No. 12, 2011 - original film released 1978)

Disc 1: Original Soundtrack LP and Morricone cues used in picture

  1. Aquarium (Le Carnaval des Animaux - Camille Saint-Saëns)
  2. We Used to Do Things - Linda Manz
  3. Enderlin - Leo Kottke
  4. Harvest
  5. Threshing
  6. Happiness
  7. The Honeymoon
  8. Swamp Dance - Doug Kershaw
  9. The Return
  10. The Chase
  11. The Fire
  12. Ashes & Dust
  13. Days of Heaven
  14. Main Theme (7M1 tk 8)
  15. The Farmer and the Girl (Theme 18—piano version)
  16. In the Field (Theme 5 long version, cf. Harvest)
  17. Bad News (3M1 tk 3)
  18. Non-Stop Work (2M1 2nd part)
  19. Main Theme (2M1 1st part)
  20. Bad News (4M3)
  21. After Wedding (5M2 2nd part)
  22. Empty House (5M3, cf. The Honeymoon)
  23. On the Road (1M2 for 5M4)
  24. They Should Leave (6M1, cf. Ashes & Dust)
  25. On the Road (8M1 long version, cf. Happiness)
  26. Bill Returns (8M2, cf. The Return)
  27. The Locusts and Fire (9M1, cf. The Fire)
  28. The Farmer and the Girl (11M3 2nd version)
  29. His Death (5M2 1st part)
  30. The Farmer and the Girl (10M3, cf. Days of Heaven)

Disc 2: Extended score program and bonus tracks

  1. 1M1 (Main Title)
  2. 1M2 (Train Ride)
  3. 1M3 (Main Theme)
  4. Theme 18 (Love Theme, long version)
  5. 2M1 1st part (Main Theme, alternate take)
  6. 2M2 (Main Theme)
  7. 2M3 (Threshing, alternate mix)
  8. 3M1 (Bad News, longer version)
  9. 3M2 (Work Theme)
  10. 3M3 (Love Theme)
  11. 4M1 (Intro to Love Theme, 2 versions)
  12. 5M1 (Love Theme)
  13. 5M2 (Insect Noises with Main Theme)
  14. 5M3 (The Honeymoon, with piano)
  15. 6M1 (Intro to Love Theme/Ashes to Dust)
  16. 6M2/7M2/7M3 (Suspense Theme/Main Theme, 2 versions/Suspense Theme)
  17. 8M1 long version (Happiness)
  18. 8M2 (The Return, piano version)
  19. Ghost Voices
  20. 9M1 (The Fire)
  21. 10M1 (Pursuit Theme)
  22. 10M2 (The Killing)
  23. 10M3 (Days of Heaven)
  24. 11M1 version 1 (The Chase)
  25. 11M1 version 2 (Love Theme)
  26. 11M2 (Main Theme)
  27. 11M3 version 2 (Main Theme)
  28. 11M3 version 1 (Love Theme)
  29. 4M2 (Intro to Love Theme)
  30. 5M2 1st track (Insect Noises with Main Theme, alternate)
  31. 5M2 2nd track (Main Theme, 1st mix)
  32. 5M2 2nd track (Main Theme, 2nd mix)
  33. Theme 18 (Love Theme, short version)

Disc 1, Tracks 1-13 released as Pacific Arts LP PAC8-128, 1979. All other tracks previously unreleased.

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