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by Gengaro, Christine Lee


  Small high shrieks

  Low breath and growl sounds

  Tapping of teeth or bone-rattlings

  Piano—solo perform

  Side B

  Autoharp—solo perform

  Vocal part of opening music

  Glissing metal-rod on autoharp of opening music

  Heartbeat—in clear

  Slow upward portamento delay echo cluster

  Gentle bells—“snow-like”

  Winter’s Efx of bell sounds

  Two Track #2 “Loops”

  “Rocky Mountains” swaying 4ths, 5ths, and Am9ths in Brassy tones—rich (med. long cue)

  “Low moanings” rich, a bit brassy and bassy—somber

  More menacing low moans, rich, episodic—much bass (fairly loud)

  Clustry, watery, soprano-like “ghosties”—ends in a high soft scream (short cue)

  Medium watery “ghosties”, slow build up in pitch, then “cluster” goes loud and nasty, more and more (good cue)

  “Ghosties”, solos, soprano and alto, sighs, siren-songs, music and very vocal-like, moves in waves (longish cue)

  Moaning “Ghosties”, alto and soprano, very high and end (med.)

  Richer solo moaning “Ghosties”, alto and tenor, soprano at end, moves up and in slow waves to scream

  Duet—“Ghosties”, vocal efx, small moans collect and move slowly up into cresc., slow gliss down as engine (longish, good cue)

  Am9th low chord slowly moves up after low pulsating start, up to very high chord (med. Cue) (good sound)

  Two Track #5 “Wind and Textures”

  Long wind—first low then “Stifled,” then full with soft “moaning”

  Shorter, outdoor, nastier version, with shimmer

  Indoor brooding wind-atmosphere

  Outdoor shimmery wind and efx

  “The Snow”—wind with low Dies Irae

  Danny and Wendy play in snow—wind and glassy and melancholy

  Long bed—very wind-like and neutral

  Long bed—softly shifting and complex

  Long bed—neutral and shifting

  Five chromatic cluster 16-voiced polyphonic performances (sample mixes only) (very good sounds built to suit given scenes)

  Two Track #6 “Piano and Autoharp efx and synth”

  Side A

  fairly long, wide spaces very scary squeals and squeaks—ghosts

  Three fat “swoops” as on “Ballroom” cues

  Two large heavy crashes

  High pitched shining/shimmer efx

  Polymoog “Blood Bath” Grady twins bursts

  Side B

  Many Polymoog and synthesizer passages on “Dies Irae and miscel. Colors……(demo material) (for pos. extension)

  4 piano-renderings of “Dies Irae”

  Wendy Carlos: Rediscovering Lost Scores, Volume I (2005, East Side Digital)

  Colorado—‘The Shining’

  The Rocky Mountains—‘The Shining’

  Chase Music—‘The Shining’

  Nocturnal Valse Triste—‘The Shining’

  Greetings Ghosties—‘The Shining’

  Horror Show—‘The Shining’

  A Haunted Waltz—‘The Shining’

  Psychic Shout #237—‘The Shining’

  Danny—‘The Shining’

  Heartbeats And Worry—‘The Shining’

  Subliminal Ballroom—‘The Shining’

  Thought Clusters—‘The Shining’

  A Ghost Piano—‘The Shining’

  Visitors—‘The Shining’

  Dark Winds and Rustles—‘The Shining’

  Bumps in the Wind—‘The Shining’

  Setting with Medea—‘The Shining’

  Two Polymoog Improvisations—‘The Shining’

  Fanfare and Drunken ‘Dies’—‘The Shining’

  Clockworks (Bloody Elevators)—‘The Shining’

  Danny Bells Ascending—‘The Shining’

  Postlude—‘The Shining’

  Stately Purcell—‘Clockwork Orange’

  Pop Purcell—‘Clockwork Orange’

  Trumpet Voluntary—‘The Shining’

  The Children of Peru—‘UNICEF Films’

  Shanty Town and Farewell—‘UNICEF Films’

  Daycare and the Colonel—‘UNICEF Films’

  Two Distant Walks—‘UNICEF Films’

  Ethiopian Life—‘UNICEF Films’

  Tanzanian Scenes—‘UNICEF Films’

  Three Hopeful Places—‘UNICEF Films’

  Wendy Carlos: Rediscovering Lost Scores, Volume II (2005, East Side Digital)

  Shining Title Music—‘The Shining’

  Paraphrase for ‘Cello—‘The Shining’

  Where’s Jack?—‘The Shining’

  The Overlook—‘The Shining’

  Psychic—‘The Shining’

  Day of Wrath—‘The Shining’

  Paraphrase For Brass—‘The Shining’

  Title Music ‘Dies’—‘The Shining’

  Clockworks ‘Dies’—‘The Shining’

  Creation of Tron Vol. I—‘Tron’

  Creation of Tron Vol. II—‘Tron’

  Lightcycle Games—‘Tron’

  Anthem (Studio Version)—‘Tron’

  Little Interludes—‘Tron’

  Trinitron—‘Tron

  Visit to a Morgue—‘Split Second’

  Return to the Morgue—‘Split Second’

  Woundings Title Music—‘Woundings’

  Angela’s Walk—‘Woundings’

  Jimmy—‘Woundings’

  Louise—‘Woundings’

  Doug Does Angela—‘Woundings’

  Scattering Ashes—‘Woundings’

  Angela’s Aftermath—‘Woundings’

  Jimmy Kills Louise—‘Woundings’

  In a Cemetery—‘Woundings’

  Fly Away and End—‘Woundings’

  Jiffy Test: Bee Dee Bei Mir—From Two Dolby Demos

  Listen: Tannhauser—From Two Dolby Demos

  Chapter 7: Complete Track Lists from Eyes Wide Shut

  Music from the Motion Picture Eyes Wide Shut (1999, Reprise)

  Musica Ricercata, II (Mesto, rigido e cerimoniale), György Ligeti; Dominic Harlan

  Waltz 2 From Jazz Suite [sic], Dmitri Shostakovich, The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Conducted by Riccardo Chailly

  Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing, Chris Isaak

  When I Fall in Love, Victor Young and Edward Heyman, The Victor Silvester Orchestra

  I Got it Bad (and That Ain’t Good), Duke Ellington and Paul Francis Webster; The Oscar Peterson Trio

  Naval Officer, Jocelyn Pook; Jocelyn Pook, Conducted by Harvey Brough

  The Dream, Jocelyn Pook; Jocelyn Pook, Conducted by Harvey Brough

  Masked Ball, Jocelyn Pook

  Migrations, Jocelyn Pook; Jocelyn Pook and the Jocelyn Pook Ensemble with Manickam Yogeswaran, Kelsey Michael and Harvey Brough

  If I Had You, Shapiro, Campbell, and Connelly; Roy Gerson

  Strangers in the Night, Snyder, Singleton, and Kaempfert, The Peter Hughes Orchestra

  Blame It on My Youth, Oscar Levant and Edward Heyman; Brad Mehldau

  Grey Clouds [Nuages Gris], Franz Liszt; Dominic Harlan

  Musica Ricercata, II (Mesto, rigido e cerimoniale) [Reprise], György Ligeti; Dominic Harlan

  Notes

  1. The writers of this song are listed as Carter and Dewitt. On promotional versions of the release, the artist is listed as “Dr. Strangelove and the Fallouts.”

  2. Billboard 22 June 1968, 48.

  3. Joe Sikoryak, “Great Film Scores,” Film Score Monthly 5, no. 9 (November/December 2000): 36.

  4. Billboard 19 April 1969, 35.

  5. Billboard 1 July 1972, 21.

  6. Billboard 4 March 1972, 41.

  7. The album peaked at position thirty-four. Joel Whitburn, Billboard: Top Albums 1955–2001 (Menomonee Falls, WI: Record Research, Inc., 2001), 1002.

  8. Walter Carlos’ C
lockwork Orange peaked at 146 on the Billboard chart. Joel Whitburn, Billboard: Top Albums 1955–2001 (Menomonee Falls, WI: Record Research, Inc., 2001),134.

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