
EL SUEÑO DE GRANADA ART WORLD
MIKE
OLDFIELD

I remember a few years ago when I discovered Ennio Morricone on television, in films of the sixties, seventies or even eighties. Maybe it was a bland movie, but its melody drew my attention. Morricone has confessed that his music always begins as groping, stealthy, it is that sustained note with which each song usually begins. When that opening chord is vibrating on your skin or vibrating inside, then its delicious melody appears, masterpieces, emotional even beyond the heart and soul. I remember his initial notes, always unmistakable; My attention, then, was in the film, wishing that his music would sound again accompanied by sentimental images. Some of these films are masterpieces, but without the music of Ennio they would not be remembered as now ... The mission, inseparable from Morricone, Once upon a time in America, Cinema Paradiso ... Ennio Morricone has been and he is, one of the greatest or the greatest composer of soundtracks in history. His appearance in the credits of those films was a reason for enthusiasm, the illusion of seeing or hearing something ... wonderful and exciting.
Andrés Cabanillas
The Dream of Granada Art World
I remember a few years ago when I discovered Ennio Morricone on television, in films of the sixties, seventies or even eighties. Maybe it was a bland movie, but its melody drew my attention. Morricone has confessed that his music always begins as groping, stealthy, it is that sustained note with which each song usually begins. When that opening chord is vibrating on your skin or vibrating inside, then its delicious melody appears, masterpieces, emotional even beyond the heart and soul. I remember his initial notes, always unmistakable; My attention, then, was in the film, wishing that his music would sound again accompanied by sentimental images. Some of these films are masterpieces, but without the music of Ennio they would not be remembered as now ... The mission, inseparable from Morricone, Once upon a time in America, Cinema Paradiso ... Ennio Morricone has been and he is, one of the greatest or the greatest composer of soundtracks in history. His appearance in the credits of those films was a reason for enthusiasm, the illusion of seeing or hearing something ... wonderful and exciting.
Andrés Cabanillas
The Dream of Granada Art World
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Ennio Morricone was the son of a trumpeter and housewife, the eldest of five brothers from a settled middle-class family who lived without hardship but also without luxury in the Trastevere neighborhood . His father, a musician, was decisive in his musical dedication: " I have raised you, my family, with this instrument. You will do the same with yours."
Morricone studied trumpet at the Conservatory, and also studied harmony, when one of his teachers recommended it to him due to his evident gifts. His progress surprised his teachers again, who advised him to study composition. "I started out as a trumpet player, first accompanying musicians, and sometimes, replacing my father during World War II!" Ennio Morricone, after the war, played in hotels before the American troops; Little by little he became known as an arranger: "He placed the original melody, that of the song, always at the center, with the idea that the arrangement would retain its autonomy. In this sense, he did not think only of the" clothing "for line of the singer or section in question, but in something independent that was at the same time complementary and could be superimposed on the lyrics when there was "
I don't know
1959 to 1966. Collaborations with Miranda Martino. "In that collection I proposed avant-garde solutions that had much criticism at the time" In 1961 Voce'e notte », from the album Just Say I Love Him, "it occurred to me to accompany his voice with the arpeggio and partly with the harmony of Beethoven's Moonlight, starting precisely from the idea of Nocturne. In the Napoli collection (1963) I decided to introduce a canon between the first and the second part of "'O sole mio", making the superposition possible: while the voice sings the chorus, the melody of the stanza played by the strings is perceived as background, as if it were a memory still present in memory of."
I don't know
In 1961, coinciding with the birth of his daughter, he composed his first film soundtrack. It was about the music for the film Il Federale , by Luciano Salce, with Ugo Tognazzi and a very young Stefania Sandrelli; It is about the mission of transferring a prominent humanist who will be elected the new ruler when the war ends ...
In 1964, he began his collaborations with Bernardo Bertolucci and Sergio Leone, who made him famous: Ennio Morricone composed the catchy tune of Por un fistful of dollars, which He reported an immense popularity and many new commissions, among others, from the historical and very personal film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who collaborated with him in his trilogy of life, The Decameron, the tales of Canterbury and The Thousand and One Nights , especially this, beautiful and outstanding music in each of the stories that are related, and also the film director Gillo Pontecorvo, who filmed Queimada with Marlon Brando as the protagonist.
I don't know
At the same time, it was part of the Gruppo Internazionale d'Improvvisazione. Morricone was a musician accustomed to improvisation, and of great intuition, who allowed “history to speak” and fled from author divisms. "The music of a score does not belong to the composer but to the film. What prevails is the need of the story."
BIOGRAPHY. FIRST YEARS

Ennio Morricone was the son of a trumpeter and housewife, the eldest of five brothers from a settled middle-class family who lived without hardship but also without luxury in the Trastevere neighborhood . His father, a musician, was decisive in his musical dedication: " I have raised you, my family, with this instrument. You will do the same with yours."
Morricone studied trumpet at the Conservatory, and also studied harmony, when one of his teachers recommended it to him due to his evident gifts. His progress surprised his teachers again, who advised him to study composition. "I started out as a trumpet player, first accompanying musicians, and sometimes, replacing my father during World War II!" Ennio Morricone, after the war, played in hotels before the American troops; Little by little he became known as an arranger: "He placed the original melody, that of the song, always at the center, with the idea that the arrangement would retain its autonomy. In this sense, he did not think only of the" clothing "for line of the singer or section in question, but in something independent that was at the same time complementary and could be superimposed on the lyrics when there was "
I don't know
1959 to 1966. Collaborations with Miranda Martino. "In that collection I proposed avant-garde solutions that had much criticism at the time" In 1961 Voce'e notte », from the album Just Say I Love Him, "it occurred to me to accompany his voice with the arpeggio and partly with the harmony of Beethoven's Moonlight, starting precisely from the idea of Nocturne. In the Napoli collection (1963) I decided to introduce a canon between the first and the second part of "'O sole mio", making the superposition possible: while the voice sings the chorus, the melody of the stanza played by the strings is perceived as background, as if it were a memory still present in memory of."
I don't know
In 1961, coinciding with the birth of his daughter, he composed his first film soundtrack. It was about the music for the film Il Federale , by Luciano Salce, with Ugo Tognazzi and a very young Stefania Sandrelli; It is about the mission of transferring a prominent humanist who will be elected the new ruler when the war ends ...
In 1964, he began his collaborations with Bernardo Bertolucci and Sergio Leone, who made him famous: Ennio Morricone composed the catchy tune of Por un fistful of dollars, which He reported an immense popularity and many new commissions, among others, from the historical and very personal film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who collaborated with him in his trilogy of life, The Decameron, the tales of Canterbury and The Thousand and One Nights , especially this, beautiful and outstanding music in each of the stories that are related, and also the film director Gillo Pontecorvo, who filmed Queimada with Marlon Brando as the protagonist.
I don't know
At the same time, it was part of the Gruppo Internazionale d'Improvvisazione. Morricone was a musician accustomed to improvisation, and of great intuition, who allowed “history to speak” and fled from author divisms. "The music of a score does not belong to the composer but to the film. What prevails is the need of the story."
BIOGRAPHY. FIRST YEARS
Ennio Morricone was the son of a trumpeter and housewife, the eldest of five brothers from a settled middle-class family who lived without hardship but also without luxury in the Trastevere neighborhood . His father, a musician, was decisive in his musical dedication: " I have raised you, my family, with this instrument. You will do the same with yours."
Morricone studied trumpet at the Conservatory, and also studied harmony, when one of his teachers recommended it to him due to his evident gifts. His progress surprised his teachers again, who advised him to study composition. "I started out as a trumpet player, first accompanying musicians, and sometimes, replacing my father during World War II!" Ennio Morricone, after the war, played in hotels before the American troops; Little by little he became known as an arranger: "He placed the original melody, that of the song, always at the center, with the idea that the arrangement would retain its autonomy. In this sense, he did not think only of the" clothing "for line of the singer or section in question, but in something independent that was at the same time complementary and could be superimposed on the lyrics when there was "
I don't know
1959 to 1966. Collaborations with Miranda Martino. "In that collection I proposed avant-garde solutions that had much criticism at the time" In 1961 Voce'e notte », from the album Just Say I Love Him, "it occurred to me to accompany his voice with the arpeggio and partly with the harmony of Beethoven's Moonlight, starting precisely from the idea of Nocturne. In the Napoli collection (1963) I decided to introduce a canon between the first and the second part of "'O sole mio", making the superposition possible: while the voice sings the chorus, the melody of the stanza played by the strings is perceived as background, as if it were a memory still present in memory of."
I don't know
In 1961, coinciding with the birth of his daughter, he composed his first film soundtrack. It was about the music for the film Il Federale , by Luciano Salce, with Ugo Tognazzi and a very young Stefania Sandrelli; It is about the mission of transferring a prominent humanist who will be elected the new ruler when the war ends ...
In 1964, he began his collaborations with Bernardo Bertolucci and Sergio Leone, who made him famous: Ennio Morricone composed the catchy tune of Por un fistful of dollars, which He reported an immense popularity and many new commissions, among others, from the historical and very personal film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who collaborated with him in his trilogy of life, The Decameron, the tales of Canterbury and The Thousand and One Nights , especially this, beautiful and outstanding music in each of the stories that are related, and also the film director Gillo Pontecorvo, who filmed Queimada with Marlon Brando as the protagonist.
I don't know
At the same time, it was part of the Gruppo Internazionale d'Improvvisazione. Morricone was a musician accustomed to improvisation, and of great intuition, who allowed “history to speak” and fled from author divisms. "The music of a score does not belong to the composer but to the film. What prevails is the need of the story."
The conversations with Ennio Morricone have been compiled in the book "In search of that sound, my music, my life".
Ruiza, M., Fernández, T. and Tamaro, E. (2004). Biography of Ennio Morricone. In Biographies and Lives.
The online biographical encyclopedia. Barcelona, Spain). Recovered from https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/m/morricone.htm
Andrés Cabanillas The Dream of Granada
I remember a few years ago when I discovered Ennio Morricone on television, in films of the sixties, seventies or even eighties. Maybe it was a bland movie, but its melody drew my attention. Morricone has confessed that his music always begins as groping, stealthy, it is that sustained note with which each song usually begins. When that opening chord is vibrating on your skin or vibrating inside, then its delicious melody appears, masterpieces, emotional even beyond the heart and soul. I remember his initial notes, always unmistakable; My attention, then, was in the film, wishing that his music would sound again accompanied by sentimental images. Some of these films are masterpieces, but without the music of Ennio they would not be remembered as now ... The mission, inseparable from Morricone, Once upon a time in America, Cinema Paradiso ... Ennio Morricone has been and he is, one of the greatest or the greatest composer of soundtracks in history. His appearance in the credits of those films was a reason for enthusiasm, the illusion of seeing or hearing something ... wonderful and exciting.
Andrés Cabanillas
The Dream of Granada Art World

Ennio Morricone was the son of a trumpeter and housewife, the eldest of five brothers from a settled middle-class family who lived without hardship but also without luxury in the Trastevere neighborhood . His father, a musician, was decisive in his musical dedication: " I have raised you, my family, with this instrument. You will do the same with yours."
Morricone studied trumpet at the Conservatory, and also studied harmony, when one of his teachers recommended it to him due to his evident gifts. His progress surprised his teachers again, who advised him to study composition. "I started out as a trumpet player, first accompanying musicians, and sometimes, replacing my father during World War II!" Ennio Morricone, after the war, played in hotels before the American troops; Little by little he became known as an arranger: "He placed the original melody, that of the song, always at the center, with the idea that the arrangement would retain its autonomy. In this sense, he did not think only of the" clothing "for line of the singer or section in question, but in something independent that was at the same time complementary and could be superimposed on the lyrics when there was "
I don't know
1959 to 1966. Collaborations with Miranda Martino. "In that collection I proposed avant-garde solutions that had much criticism at the time" In 1961 Voce'e notte », from the album Just Say I Love Him, "it occurred to me to accompany his voice with the arpeggio and partly with the harmony of Beethoven's Moonlight, starting precisely from the idea of Nocturne. In the Napoli collection (1963) I decided to introduce a canon between the first and the second part of "'O sole mio", making the superposition possible: while the voice sings the chorus, the melody of the stanza played by the strings is perceived as background, as if it were a memory still present in memory of."
I don't know
In 1961, coinciding with the birth of his daughter, he composed his first film soundtrack. It was about the music for the film Il Federale , by Luciano Salce, with Ugo Tognazzi and a very young Stefania Sandrelli; It is about the mission of transferring a prominent humanist who will be elected the new ruler when the war ends ...
In 1964, he began his collaborations with Bernardo Bertolucci and Sergio Leone, who made him famous: Ennio Morricone composed the catchy tune of Por un fistful of dollars, which He reported an immense popularity and many new commissions, among others, from the historical and very personal film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who collaborated with him in his trilogy of life, The Decameron, the tales of Canterbury and The Thousand and One Nights , especially this, beautiful and outstanding music in each of the stories that are related, and also the film director Gillo Pontecorvo, who filmed Queimada with Marlon Brando as the protagonist.
I don't know
At the same time, it was part of the Gruppo Internazionale d'Improvvisazione. Morricone was a musician accustomed to improvisation, and of great intuition, who allowed “history to speak” and fled from author divisms. "The music of a score does not belong to the composer but to the film. What prevails is the need of the story."
BIOGRAPHY. FIRST YEARS

Ennio Morricone was the son of a trumpeter and housewife, the eldest of five brothers from a settled middle-class family who lived without hardship but also without luxury in the Trastevere neighborhood . His father, a musician, was decisive in his musical dedication: " I have raised you, my family, with this instrument. You will do the same with yours."
Morricone studied trumpet at the Conservatory, and also studied harmony, when one of his teachers recommended it to him due to his evident gifts. His progress surprised his teachers again, who advised him to study composition. "I started out as a trumpet player, first accompanying musicians, and sometimes, replacing my father during World War II!" Ennio Morricone, after the war, played in hotels before the American troops; Little by little he became known as an arranger: "He placed the original melody, that of the song, always at the center, with the idea that the arrangement would retain its autonomy. In this sense, he did not think only of the" clothing "for line of the singer or section in question, but in something independent that was at the same time complementary and could be superimposed on the lyrics when there was "
I don't know
1959 to 1966. Collaborations with Miranda Martino. "In that collection I proposed avant-garde solutions that had much criticism at the time" In 1961 Voce'e notte », from the album Just Say I Love Him, "it occurred to me to accompany his voice with the arpeggio and partly with the harmony of Beethoven's Moonlight, starting precisely from the idea of Nocturne. In the Napoli collection (1963) I decided to introduce a canon between the first and the second part of "'O sole mio", making the superposition possible: while the voice sings the chorus, the melody of the stanza played by the strings is perceived as background, as if it were a memory still present in memory of."
I don't know
In 1961, coinciding with the birth of his daughter, he composed his first film soundtrack. It was about the music for the film Il Federale , by Luciano Salce, with Ugo Tognazzi and a very young Stefania Sandrelli; It is about the mission of transferring a prominent humanist who will be elected the new ruler when the war ends ...
In 1964, he began his collaborations with Bernardo Bertolucci and Sergio Leone, who made him famous: Ennio Morricone composed the catchy tune of Por un fistful of dollars, which He reported an immense popularity and many new commissions, among others, from the historical and very personal film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who collaborated with him in his trilogy of life, The Decameron, the tales of Canterbury and The Thousand and One Nights , especially this, beautiful and outstanding music in each of the stories that are related, and also the film director Gillo Pontecorvo, who filmed Queimada with Marlon Brando as the protagonist.
I don't know
At the same time, it was part of the Gruppo Internazionale d'Improvvisazione. Morricone was a musician accustomed to improvisation, and of great intuition, who allowed “history to speak” and fled from author divisms. "The music of a score does not belong to the composer but to the film. What prevails is the need of the story."

BIOGRAPHY. FIRST YEARS

Ennio Morricone was the son of a trumpeter and housewife, the eldest of five brothers from a settled middle-class family who lived without hardship but also without luxury in the Trastevere neighborhood . His father, a musician, was decisive in his musical dedication: " I have raised you, my family, with this instrument. You will do the same with yours."
Morricone studied trumpet at the Conservatory, and also studied harmony, when one of his teachers recommended it to him due to his evident gifts. His progress surprised his teachers again, who advised him to study composition. "I started out as a trumpet player, first accompanying musicians, and sometimes, replacing my father during World War II!" Ennio Morricone, after the war, played in hotels before the American troops; Little by little he became known as an arranger: "He placed the original melody, that of the song, always at the center, with the idea that the arrangement would retain its autonomy. In this sense, he did not think only of the" clothing "for line of the singer or section in question, but in something independent that was at the same time complementary and could be superimposed on the lyrics when there was "
I don't know
1959 to 1966. Collaborations with Miranda Martino. "In that collection I proposed avant-garde solutions that had much criticism at the time" In 1961 Voce'e notte », from the album Just Say I Love Him, "it occurred to me to accompany his voice with the arpeggio and partly with the harmony of Beethoven's Moonlight, starting precisely from the idea of Nocturne. In the Napoli collection (1963) I decided to introduce a canon between the first and the second part of "'O sole mio", making the superposition possible: while the voice sings the chorus, the melody of the stanza played by the strings is perceived as background, as if it were a memory still present in memory of."
I don't know
In 1961, coinciding with the birth of his daughter, he composed his first film soundtrack. It was about the music for the film Il Federale , by Luciano Salce, with Ugo Tognazzi and a very young Stefania Sandrelli; It is about the mission of transferring a prominent humanist who will be elected the new ruler when the war ends ...
In 1964, he began his collaborations with Bernardo Bertolucci and Sergio Leone, who made him famous: Ennio Morricone composed the catchy tune of Por un fistful of dollars, which He reported an immense popularity and many new commissions, among others, from the historical and very personal film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who collaborated with him in his trilogy of life, The Decameron, the tales of Canterbury and The Thousand and One Nights , especially this, beautiful and outstanding music in each of the stories that are related, and also the film director Gillo Pontecorvo, who filmed Queimada with Marlon Brando as the protagonist.
I don't know
At the same time, it was part of the Gruppo Internazionale d'Improvvisazione. Morricone was a musician accustomed to improvisation, and of great intuition, who allowed “history to speak” and fled from author divisms. "The music of a score does not belong to the composer but to the film. What prevails is the need of the story."
Ennio Morricone was the son of a trumpeter and housewife, the eldest of five brothers from a settled middle-class family who lived without hardship but also without luxury in the Trastevere neighborhood . His father, a musician, was decisive in his musical dedication: " I have raised you, my family, with this instrument. You will do the same with yours."
Morricone studied trumpet at the Conservatory, and also studied harmony, when one of his teachers recommended it to him due to his evident gifts. His progress surprised his teachers again, who advised him to study composition. "I started out as a trumpet player, first accompanying musicians, and sometimes, replacing my father during World War II!" Ennio Morricone, after the war, played in hotels before the American troops; Little by little he became known as an arranger: "He placed the original melody, that of the song, always at the center, with the idea that the arrangement would retain its autonomy. In this sense, he did not think only of the" clothing "for line of the singer or section in question, but in something independent that was at the same time complementary and could be superimposed on the lyrics when there was "
I don't know
1959 to 1966. Collaborations with Miranda Martino. "In that collection I proposed avant-garde solutions that had much criticism at the time" In 1961 Voce'e notte », from the album Just Say I Love Him, "it occurred to me to accompany his voice with the arpeggio and partly with the harmony of Beethoven's Moonlight, starting precisely from the idea of Nocturne. In the Napoli collection (1963) I decided to introduce a canon between the first and the second part of "'O sole mio", making the superposition possible: while the voice sings the chorus, the melody of the stanza played by the strings is perceived as background, as if it were a memory still present in memory of."
I don't know
In 1961, coinciding with the birth of his daughter, he composed his first film soundtrack. It was about the music for the film Il Federale , by Luciano Salce, with Ugo Tognazzi and a very young Stefania Sandrelli; It is about the mission of transferring a prominent humanist who will be elected the new ruler when the war ends ...
In 1964, he began his collaborations with Bernardo Bertolucci and Sergio Leone, who made him famous: Ennio Morricone composed the catchy tune of Por un fistful of dollars, which He reported an immense popularity and many new commissions, among others, from the historical and very personal film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who collaborated with him in his trilogy of life, The Decameron, the tales of Canterbury and The Thousand and One Nights , especially this, beautiful and outstanding music in each of the stories that are related, and also the film director Gillo Pontecorvo, who filmed Queimada with Marlon Brando as the protagonist.
I don't know
At the same time, it was part of the Gruppo Internazionale d'Improvvisazione. Morricone was a musician accustomed to improvisation, and of great intuition, who allowed “history to speak” and fled from author divisms. "The music of a score does not belong to the composer but to the film. What prevails is the need of the story."
Ennio Morricone was the son of a trumpeter and housewife, the eldest of five brothers from a settled middle-class family who lived without hardship but also without luxury in the Trastevere neighborhood . His father, a musician, was decisive in his musical dedication: " I have raised you, my family, with this instrument. You will do the same with yours."
Morricone studied trumpet at the Conservatory, and also studied harmony, when one of his teachers recommended it to him due to his evident gifts. His progress surprised his teachers again, who advised him to study composition. "I started out as a trumpet player, first accompanying musicians, and sometimes, replacing my father during World War II!" Ennio Morricone, after the war, played in hotels before the American troops; Little by little he became known as an arranger: "He placed the original melody, that of the song, always at the center, with the idea that the arrangement would retain its autonomy. In this sense, he did not think only of the" clothing "for line of the singer or section in question, but in something independent that was at the same time complementary and could be superimposed on the lyrics when there was "
I don't know
1959 to 1966. Collaborations with Miranda Martino. "In that collection I proposed avant-garde solutions that had much criticism at the time" In 1961 Voce'e notte », from the album Just Say I Love Him, "it occurred to me to accompany his voice with the arpeggio and partly with the harmony of Beethoven's Moonlight, starting precisely from the idea of Nocturne. In the Napoli collection (1963) I decided to introduce a canon between the first and the second part of "'O sole mio", making the superposition possible: while the voice sings the chorus, the melody of the stanza played by the strings is perceived as background, as if it were a memory still present in memory of."
I don't know
In 1961, coinciding with the birth of his daughter, he composed his first film soundtrack. It was about the music for the film Il Federale , by Luciano Salce, with Ugo Tognazzi and a very young Stefania Sandrelli; It is about the mission of transferring a prominent humanist who will be elected the new ruler when the war ends ...
In 1964, he began his collaborations with Bernardo Bertolucci and Sergio Leone, who made him famous: Ennio Morricone composed the catchy tune of Por un fistful of dollars, which He reported an immense popularity and many new commissions, among others, from the historical and very personal film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who collaborated with him in his trilogy of life, The Decameron, the tales of Canterbury and The Thousand and One Nights , especially this, beautiful and outstanding music in each of the stories that are related, and also the film director Gillo Pontecorvo, who filmed Queimada with Marlon Brando as the protagonist.
I don't know
At the same time, it was part of the Gruppo Internazionale d'Improvvisazione. Morricone was a musician accustomed to improvisation, and of great intuition, who allowed “history to speak” and fled from author divisms. "The music of a score does not belong to the composer but to the film. What prevails is the need of the story."
The conversations with Ennio Morricone have been compiled in the book "In search of that sound, my music, my life".
Ruiza, M., Fernández, T. and Tamaro, E. (2004). Biography of Ennio Morricone. In Biographies and Lives.
The online biographical encyclopedia. Barcelona, Spain). Recovered from https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/m/morricone.htm
Andrés Cabanillas The Dream of Granada
The conversations with Ennio Morricone have been compiled in the book "In search of that sound, my music, my life".
Ruiza, M., Fernández, T. and Tamaro, E. (2004). Biography of Ennio Morricone. In Biographies and Lives.
The online biographical encyclopedia. Barcelona, Spain). Recovered from https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/m/morricone.htm
Andrés Cabanillas The Dream of Granada
BIOGRAPHY. FIRST YEARS


Ennio Morricone was the son of a trumpeter and housewife, the eldest of five brothers from a settled middle-class family who lived without hardship but also without luxury in the Trastevere neighborhood . His father, a musician, was decisive in his musical dedication: " I have raised you, my family, with this instrument. You will do the same with yours."
Morricone studied trumpet at the Conservatory, and also studied harmony, when one of his teachers recommended it to him due to his evident gifts. His progress surprised his teachers again, who advised him to study composition. "I started out as a trumpet player, first accompanying musicians, and sometimes, replacing my father during World War II!" Ennio Morricone, after the war, played in hotels before the American troops; Little by little he became known as an arranger: "He placed the original melody, that of the song, always at the center, with the idea that the arrangement would retain its autonomy. In this sense, he did not think only of the" clothing "for line of the singer or section in question, but in something independent that was at the same time complementary and could be superimposed on the lyrics when there was "
I don't know
1959 to 1966. Collaborations with Miranda Martino. "In that collection I proposed avant-garde solutions that had much criticism at the time" In 1961 Voce'e notte », from the album Just Say I Love Him, "it occurred to me to accompany his voice with the arpeggio and partly with the harmony of Beethoven's Moonlight, starting precisely from the idea of Nocturne. In the Napoli collection (1963) I decided to introduce a canon between the first and the second part of "'O sole mio", making the superposition possible: while the voice sings the chorus, the melody of the stanza played by the strings is perceived as background, as if it were a memory still present in memory of."
I don't know
In 1961, coinciding with the birth of his daughter, he composed his first film soundtrack. It was about the music for the film Il Federale , by Luciano Salce, with Ugo Tognazzi and a very young Stefania Sandrelli; It is about the mission of transferring a prominent humanist who will be elected the new ruler when the war ends ...
In 1964, he began his collaborations with Bernardo Bertolucci and Sergio Leone, who made him famous: Ennio Morricone composed the catchy tune of Por un fistful of dollars, which He reported an immense popularity and many new commissions, among others, from the historical and very personal film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who collaborated with him in his trilogy of life, The Decameron, the tales of Canterbury and The Thousand and One Nights , especially this, beautiful and outstanding music in each of the stories that are related, and also the film director Gillo Pontecorvo, who filmed Queimada with Marlon Brando as the protagonist.
I don't know
At the same time, it was part of the Gruppo Internazionale d'Improvvisazione. Morricone was a musician accustomed to improvisation, and of great intuition, who allowed “history to speak” and fled from author divisms. "The music of a score does not belong to the composer but to the film. What prevails is the need of the story."
The conversations with Ennio Morricone have been compiled in the book "In search of that sound, my music, my life".
Ruiza, M., Fernández, T. and Tamaro, E. (2004). Biography of Ennio Morricone. In Biographies and Lives.
The online biographical encyclopedia. Barcelona, Spain). Recovered from https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/m/morricone.htm
Andrés Cabanillas The Dream of Granada
Ennio Morricone was the son of a trumpeter and housewife, the eldest of five brothers from a settled middle-class family who lived without hardship but also without luxury in the Trastevere neighborhood . His father, a musician, was decisive in his musical dedication: " I have raised you, my family, with this instrument. You will do the same with yours."
Morricone studied trumpet at the Conservatory, and also studied harmony, when one of his teachers recommended it to him due to his evident gifts. His progress surprised his teachers again, who advised him to study composition. "I started out as a trumpet player, first accompanying musicians, and sometimes, replacing my father during World War II!" Ennio Morricone, after the war, played in hotels before the American troops; Little by little he became known as an arranger: "He placed the original melody, that of the song, always at the center, with the idea that the arrangement would retain its autonomy. In this sense, he did not think only of the" clothing "for line of the singer or section in question, but in something independent that was at the same time complementary and could be superimposed on the lyrics when there was "
I don't know
1959 to 1966. Collaborations with Miranda Martino. "In that collection I proposed avant-garde solutions that had much criticism at the time" In 1961 Voce'e notte », from the album Just Say I Love Him, "it occurred to me to accompany his voice with the arpeggio and partly with the harmony of Beethoven's Moonlight, starting precisely from the idea of Nocturne. In the Napoli collection (1963) I decided to introduce a canon between the first and the second part of "'O sole mio", making the superposition possible: while the voice sings the chorus, the melody of the stanza played by the strings is perceived as background, as if it were a memory still present in memory of."
I don't know
In 1961, coinciding with the birth of his daughter, he composed his first film soundtrack. It was about the music for the film Il Federale , by Luciano Salce, with Ugo Tognazzi and a very young Stefania Sandrelli; It is about the mission of transferring a prominent humanist who will be elected the new ruler when the war ends ...
In 1964, he began his collaborations with Bernardo Bertolucci and Sergio Leone, who made him famous: Ennio Morricone composed the catchy tune of Por un fistful of dollars, which He reported an immense popularity and many new commissions, among others, from the historical and very personal film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who collaborated with him in his trilogy of life, The Decameron, the tales of Canterbury and The Thousand and One Nights , especially this, beautiful and outstanding music in each of the stories that are related, and also the film director Gillo Pontecorvo, who filmed Queimada with Marlon Brando as the protagonist.
I don't know
At the same time, it was part of the Gruppo Internazionale d'Improvvisazione. Morricone was a musician accustomed to improvisation, and of great intuition, who allowed “history to speak” and fled from author divisms. "The music of a score does not belong to the composer but to the film. What prevails is the need of the story."
BIOGRAPHY. FIRST YEARS
Ennio Morricone was the son of a trumpeter and housewife, the eldest of five brothers from a settled middle-class family who lived without hardship but also without luxury in the Trastevere neighborhood . His father, a musician, was decisive in his musical dedication: " I have raised you, my family, with this instrument. You will do the same with yours."
Morricone studied trumpet at the Conservatory, and also studied harmony, when one of his teachers recommended it to him due to his evident gifts. His progress surprised his teachers again, who advised him to study composition. "I started out as a trumpet player, first accompanying musicians, and sometimes, replacing my father during World War II!" Ennio Morricone, after the war, played in hotels before the American troops; Little by little he became known as an arranger: "He placed the original melody, that of the song, always at the center, with the idea that the arrangement would retain its autonomy. In this sense, he did not think only of the" clothing "for line of the singer or section in question, but in something independent that was at the same time complementary and could be superimposed on the lyrics when there was "
I don't know
1959 to 1966. Collaborations with Miranda Martino. "In that collection I proposed avant-garde solutions that had much criticism at the time" In 1961 Voce'e notte », from the album Just Say I Love Him, "it occurred to me to accompany his voice with the arpeggio and partly with the harmony of Beethoven's Moonlight, starting precisely from the idea of Nocturne. In the Napoli collection (1963) I decided to introduce a canon between the first and the second part of "'O sole mio", making the superposition possible: while the voice sings the chorus, the melody of the stanza played by the strings is perceived as background, as if it were a memory still present in memory of."
I don't know
In 1961, coinciding with the birth of his daughter, he composed his first film soundtrack. It was about the music for the film Il Federale , by Luciano Salce, with Ugo Tognazzi and a very young Stefania Sandrelli; It is about the mission of transferring a prominent humanist who will be elected the new ruler when the war ends ...
In 1964, he began his collaborations with Bernardo Bertolucci and Sergio Leone, who made him famous: Ennio Morricone composed the catchy tune of Por un fistful of dollars, which He reported an immense popularity and many new commissions, among others, from the historical and very personal film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who collaborated with him in his trilogy of life, The Decameron, the tales of Canterbury and The Thousand and One Nights , especially this, beautiful and outstanding music in each of the stories that are related, and also the film director Gillo Pontecorvo, who filmed Queimada with Marlon Brando as the protagonist.
I don't know
At the same time, it was part of the Gruppo Internazionale d'Improvvisazione. Morricone was a musician accustomed to improvisation, and of great intuition, who allowed “history to speak” and fled from author divisms. "The music of a score does not belong to the composer but to the film. What prevails is the need of the story."
The conversations with Ennio Morricone have been compiled in the book "In search of that sound, my music, my life".
Ruiza, M., Fernández, T. and Tamaro, E. (2004). Biography of Ennio Morricone. In Biographies and Lives.
The online biographical encyclopedia. Barcelona, Spain). Recovered from https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/m/morricone.htm
Andrés Cabanillas The Dream of Granada
Ennio Morricone was the son of a trumpeter and housewife, the eldest of five brothers from a settled middle-class family who lived without hardship but also without luxury in the Trastevere neighborhood . His father, a musician, was decisive in his musical dedication: " I have raised you, my family, with this instrument. You will do the same with yours."
Morricone studied trumpet at the Conservatory, and also studied harmony, when one of his teachers recommended it to him due to his evident gifts. His progress surprised his teachers again, who advised him to study composition. "I started out as a trumpet player, first accompanying musicians, and sometimes, replacing my father during World War II!" Ennio Morricone, after the war, played in hotels before the American troops; Little by little he became known as an arranger: "He placed the original melody, that of the song, always at the center, with the idea that the arrangement would retain its autonomy. In this sense, he did not think only of the" clothing "for line of the singer or section in question, but in something independent that was at the same time complementary and could be superimposed on the lyrics when there was "
I don't know
1959 to 1966. Collaborations with Miranda Martino. "In that collection I proposed avant-garde solutions that had much criticism at the time" In 1961 Voce'e notte », from the album Just Say I Love Him, "it occurred to me to accompany his voice with the arpeggio and partly with the harmony of Beethoven's Moonlight, starting precisely from the idea of Nocturne. In the Napoli collection (1963) I decided to introduce a canon between the first and the second part of "'O sole mio", making the superposition possible: while the voice sings the chorus, the melody of the stanza played by the strings is perceived as background, as if it were a memory still present in memory of."
I don't know
In 1961, coinciding with the birth of his daughter, he composed his first film soundtrack. It was about the music for the film Il Federale , by Luciano Salce, with Ugo Tognazzi and a very young Stefania Sandrelli; It is about the mission of transferring a prominent humanist who will be elected the new ruler when the war ends ...
In 1964, he began his collaborations with Bernardo Bertolucci and Sergio Leone, who made him famous: Ennio Morricone composed the catchy tune of Por un fistful of dollars, which He reported an immense popularity and many new commissions, among others, from the historical and very personal film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who collaborated with him in his trilogy of life, The Decameron, the tales of Canterbury and The Thousand and One Nights , especially this, beautiful and outstanding music in each of the stories that are related, and also the film director Gillo Pontecorvo, who filmed Queimada with Marlon Brando as the protagonist.
I don't know
At the same time, it was part of the Gruppo Internazionale d'Improvvisazione. Morricone was a musician accustomed to improvisation, and of great intuition, who allowed “history to speak” and fled from author divisms. "The music of a score does not belong to the composer but to the film. What prevails is the need of the story."
Ennio Morricone was the son of a trumpeter and housewife, the eldest of five brothers from a settled middle-class family who lived without hardship but also without luxury in the Trastevere neighborhood . His father, a musician, was decisive in his musical dedication: " I have raised you, my family, with this instrument. You will do the same with yours."
Morricone studied trumpet at the Conservatory, and also studied harmony, when one of his teachers recommended it to him due to his evident gifts. His progress surprised his teachers again, who advised him to study composition. "I started out as a trumpet player, first accompanying musicians, and sometimes, replacing my father during World War II!" Ennio Morricone, after the war, played in hotels before the American troops; Little by little he became known as an arranger: "He placed the original melody, that of the song, always at the center, with the idea that the arrangement would retain its autonomy. In this sense, he did not think only of the" clothing "for line of the singer or section in question, but in something independent that was at the same time complementary and could be superimposed on the lyrics when there was "
I don't know
1959 to 1966. Collaborations with Miranda Martino. "In that collection I proposed avant-garde solutions that had much criticism at the time" In 1961 Voce'e notte », from the album Just Say I Love Him, "it occurred to me to accompany his voice with the arpeggio and partly with the harmony of Beethoven's Moonlight, starting precisely from the idea of Nocturne. In the Napoli collection (1963) I decided to introduce a canon between the first and the second part of "'O sole mio", making the superposition possible: while the voice sings the chorus, the melody of the stanza played by the strings is perceived as background, as if it were a memory still present in memory of."
I don't know
In 1961, coinciding with the birth of his daughter, he composed his first film soundtrack. It was about the music for the film Il Federale , by Luciano Salce, with Ugo Tognazzi and a very young Stefania Sandrelli; It is about the mission of transferring a prominent humanist who will be elected the new ruler when the war ends ...
In 1964, he began his collaborations with Bernardo Bertolucci and Sergio Leone, who made him famous: Ennio Morricone composed the catchy tune of Por un fistful of dollars, which He reported an immense popularity and many new commissions, among others, from the historical and very personal film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who collaborated with him in his trilogy of life, The Decameron, the tales of Canterbury and The Thousand and One Nights , especially this, beautiful and outstanding music in each of the stories that are related, and also the film director Gillo Pontecorvo, who filmed Queimada with Marlon Brando as the protagonist.
I don't know
At the same time, it was part of the Gruppo Internazionale d'Improvvisazione. Morricone was a musician accustomed to improvisation, and of great intuition, who allowed “history to speak” and fled from author divisms. "The music of a score does not belong to the composer but to the film. What prevails is the need of the story."


Ennio Morricone was the son of a trumpeter and housewife, the eldest of five brothers from a settled middle-class family who lived without hardship but also without luxury in the Trastevere neighborhood . His father, a musician, was decisive in his musical dedication: " I have raised you, my family, with this instrument. You will do the same with yours."
Morricone studied trumpet at the Conservatory, and also studied harmony, when one of his teachers recommended it to him due to his evident gifts. His progress surprised his teachers again, who advised him to study composition. "I started out as a trumpet player, first accompanying musicians, and sometimes, replacing my father during World War II!" Ennio Morricone, after the war, played in hotels before the American troops; Little by little he became known as an arranger: "He placed the original melody, that of the song, always at the center, with the idea that the arrangement would retain its autonomy. In this sense, he did not think only of the" clothing "for line of the singer or section in question, but in something independent that was at the same time complementary and could be superimposed on the lyrics when there was "
I don't know
1959 to 1966. Collaborations with Miranda Martino. "In that collection I proposed avant-garde solutions that had much criticism at the time" In 1961 Voce'e notte », from the album Just Say I Love Him, "it occurred to me to accompany his voice with the arpeggio and partly with the harmony of Beethoven's Moonlight, starting precisely from the idea of Nocturne. In the Napoli collection (1963) I decided to introduce a canon between the first and the second part of "'O sole mio", making the superposition possible: while the voice sings the chorus, the melody of the stanza played by the strings is perceived as background, as if it were a memory still present in memory of."
I don't know
In 1961, coinciding with the birth of his daughter, he composed his first film soundtrack. It was about the music for the film Il Federale , by Luciano Salce, with Ugo Tognazzi and a very young Stefania Sandrelli; It is about the mission of transferring a prominent humanist who will be elected the new ruler when the war ends ...
In 1964, he began his collaborations with Bernardo Bertolucci and Sergio Leone, who made him famous: Ennio Morricone composed the catchy tune of Por un fistful of dollars, which He reported an immense popularity and many new commissions, among others, from the historical and very personal film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who collaborated with him in his trilogy of life, The Decameron, the tales of Canterbury and The Thousand and One Nights , especially this, beautiful and outstanding music in each of the stories that are related, and also the film director Gillo Pontecorvo, who filmed Queimada with Marlon Brando as the protagonist.
I don't know
At the same time, it was part of the Gruppo Internazionale d'Improvvisazione. Morricone was a musician accustomed to improvisation, and of great intuition, who allowed “history to speak” and fled from author divisms. "The music of a score does not belong to the composer but to the film. What prevails is the need of the story."
The conversations with Ennio Morricone have been compiled in the book "In search of that sound, my music, my life".
Ruiza, M., Fernández, T. and Tamaro, E. (2004). Biography of Ennio Morricone. In Biographies and Lives.
The online biographical encyclopedia. Barcelona, Spain). Recovered from https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/m/morricone.htm
Andrés Cabanillas The Dream of Granada
BIOGRAPHY. FIRST YEARS

The conversations with Ennio Morricone have been compiled in the book "In search of that sound, my music, my life".
Ruiza, M., Fernández, T. and Tamaro, E. (2004). Biography of Ennio Morricone. In Biographies and Lives.
The online biographical encyclopedia. Barcelona, Spain). Recovered from https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/m/morricone.htm
Andrés Cabanillas The Dream of Granada
Ennio Morricone was the son of a trumpeter and housewife, the eldest of five brothers from a settled middle-class family who lived without hardship but also without luxury in the Trastevere neighborhood . His father, a musician, was decisive in his musical dedication: " I have raised you, my family, with this instrument. You will do the same with yours."
Morricone studied trumpet at the Conservatory, and also studied harmony, when one of his teachers recommended it to him due to his evident gifts. His progress surprised his teachers again, who advised him to study composition. "I started out as a trumpet player, first accompanying musicians, and sometimes, replacing my father during World War II!" Ennio Morricone, after the war, played in hotels before the American troops; Little by little he became known as an arranger: "He placed the original melody, that of the song, always at the center, with the idea that the arrangement would retain its autonomy. In this sense, he did not think only of the" clothing "for line of the singer or section in question, but in something independent that was at the same time complementary and could be superimposed on the lyrics when there was "
I don't know
1959 to 1966. Collaborations with Miranda Martino. "In that collection I proposed avant-garde solutions that had much criticism at the time" In 1961 Voce'e notte », from the album Just Say I Love Him, "it occurred to me to accompany his voice with the arpeggio and partly with the harmony of Beethoven's Moonlight, starting precisely from the idea of Nocturne. In the Napoli collection (1963) I decided to introduce a canon between the first and the second part of "'O sole mio", making the superposition possible: while the voice sings the chorus, the melody of the stanza played by the strings is perceived as background, as if it were a memory still present in memory of."
I don't know
In 1961, coinciding with the birth of his daughter, he composed his first film soundtrack. It was about the music for the film Il Federale , by Luciano Salce, with Ugo Tognazzi and a very young Stefania Sandrelli; It is about the mission of transferring a prominent humanist who will be elected the new ruler when the war ends ...
In 1964, he began his collaborations with Bernardo Bertolucci and Sergio Leone, who made him famous: Ennio Morricone composed the catchy tune of Por un fistful of dollars, which He reported an immense popularity and many new commissions, among others, from the historical and very personal film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who collaborated with him in his trilogy of life, The Decameron, the tales of Canterbury and The Thousand and One Nights , especially this, beautiful and outstanding music in each of the stories that are related, and also the film director Gillo Pontecorvo, who filmed Queimada with Marlon Brando as the protagonist.
I don't know
At the same time, it was part of the Gruppo Internazionale d'Improvvisazione. Morricone was a musician accustomed to improvisation, and of great intuition, who allowed “history to speak” and fled from author divisms. "The music of a score does not belong to the composer but to the film. What prevails is the need of the story."

Ennio Morricone was the son of a trumpeter and housewife, the eldest of five brothers from a settled middle-class family who lived without hardship but also without luxury in the Trastevere neighborhood . His father, a musician, was decisive in his musical dedication: " I have raised you, my family, with this instrument. You will do the same with yours."
Morricone studied trumpet at the Conservatory, and also studied harmony, when one of his teachers recommended it to him due to his evident gifts. His progress surprised his teachers again, who advised him to study composition. "I started out as a trumpet player, first accompanying musicians, and sometimes, replacing my father during World War II!" Ennio Morricone, after the war, played in hotels before the American troops; Little by little he became known as an arranger: "He placed the original melody, that of the song, always at the center, with the idea that the arrangement would retain its autonomy. In this sense, he did not think only of the" clothing "for line of the singer or section in question, but in something independent that was at the same time complementary and could be superimposed on the lyrics when there was "
I don't know
1959 to 1966. Collaborations with Miranda Martino. "In that collection I proposed avant-garde solutions that had much criticism at the time" In 1961 Voce'e notte », from the album Just Say I Love Him, "it occurred to me to accompany his voice with the arpeggio and partly with the harmony of Beethoven's Moonlight, starting precisely from the idea of Nocturne. In the Napoli collection (1963) I decided to introduce a canon between the first and the second part of "'O sole mio", making the superposition possible: while the voice sings the chorus, the melody of the stanza played by the strings is perceived as background, as if it were a memory still present in memory of."
I don't know
In 1961, coinciding with the birth of his daughter, he composed his first film soundtrack. It was about the music for the film Il Federale , by Luciano Salce, with Ugo Tognazzi and a very young Stefania Sandrelli; It is about the mission of transferring a prominent humanist who will be elected the new ruler when the war ends ...
In 1964, he began his collaborations with Bernardo Bertolucci and Sergio Leone, who made him famous: Ennio Morricone composed the catchy tune of Por un fistful of dollars, which He reported an immense popularity and many new commissions, among others, from the historical and very personal film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who collaborated with him in his trilogy of life, The Decameron, the tales of Canterbury and The Thousand and One Nights , especially this, beautiful and outstanding music in each of the stories that are related, and also the film director Gillo Pontecorvo, who filmed Queimada with Marlon Brando as the protagonist.
I don't know
At the same time, it was part of the Gruppo Internazionale d'Improvvisazione. Morricone was a musician accustomed to improvisation, and of great intuition, who allowed “history to speak” and fled from author divisms. "The music of a score does not belong to the composer but to the film. What prevails is the need of the story."
BIOGRAPHY. FIRST YEARS
Ennio Morricone was the son of a trumpeter and housewife, the eldest of five brothers from a settled middle-class family who lived without hardship but also without luxury in the Trastevere neighborhood . His father, a musician, was decisive in his musical dedication: " I have raised you, my family, with this instrument. You will do the same with yours."
Morricone studied trumpet at the Conservatory, and also studied harmony, when one of his teachers recommended it to him due to his evident gifts. His progress surprised his teachers again, who advised him to study composition. "I started out as a trumpet player, first accompanying musicians, and sometimes, replacing my father during World War II!" Ennio Morricone, after the war, played in hotels before the American troops; Little by little he became known as an arranger: "He placed the original melody, that of the song, always at the center, with the idea that the arrangement would retain its autonomy. In this sense, he did not think only of the" clothing "for line of the singer or section in question, but in something independent that was at the same time complementary and could be superimposed on the lyrics when there was "
I don't know
1959 to 1966. Collaborations with Miranda Martino. "In that collection I proposed avant-garde solutions that had much criticism at the time" In 1961 Voce'e notte », from the album Just Say I Love Him, "it occurred to me to accompany his voice with the arpeggio and partly with the harmony of Beethoven's Moonlight, starting precisely from the idea of Nocturne. In the Napoli collection (1963) I decided to introduce a canon between the first and the second part of "'O sole mio", making the superposition possible: while the voice sings the chorus, the melody of the stanza played by the strings is perceived as background, as if it were a memory still present in memory of."
I don't know
In 1961, coinciding with the birth of his daughter, he composed his first film soundtrack. It was about the music for the film Il Federale , by Luciano Salce, with Ugo Tognazzi and a very young Stefania Sandrelli; It is about the mission of transferring a prominent humanist who will be elected the new ruler when the war ends ...
In 1964, he began his collaborations with Bernardo Bertolucci and Sergio Leone, who made him famous: Ennio Morricone composed the catchy tune of Por un fistful of dollars, which He reported an immense popularity and many new commissions, among others, from the historical and very personal film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who collaborated with him in his trilogy of life, The Decameron, the tales of Canterbury and The Thousand and One Nights , especially this, beautiful and outstanding music in each of the stories that are related, and also the film director Gillo Pontecorvo, who filmed Queimada with Marlon Brando as the protagonist.
I don't know
At the same time, it was part of the Gruppo Internazionale d'Improvvisazione. Morricone was a musician accustomed to improvisation, and of great intuition, who allowed “history to speak” and fled from author divisms. "The music of a score does not belong to the composer but to the film. What prevails is the need of the story."
THE WATCHER
Seamos sinceros: en 1990 Mike Oldfield parecía completamente acabado, aparentemente no quedaba nada del genio que en los años setenta había parido varias obras maestras seguidas. Años de presión para que su música fuera comprensible por el gran público habían cumplido su objetivo. Oldfield estaba domesticado. Producía música insustancial e irrelevante, concedía entrevistas, protagonizaba vídeo clips estúpidos. De repente, fue como si algo se hubiera roto. Como si hubiera tenido algún tipo de epifanía y se hubiese dado cuenta de hasta qué punto se había degradado. Y se hartó, soltó las cadenas de Virgin. Y parió Amarok.
Su germen estuvo en la trampa que llevaba oculta Earth Moving: “De acuerdo, Branson, te doy un disco sin temas instrumentales de pop/rock facilón. A cambio, el siguiente álbum es mío, libertad total”. Y Branson aceptó. El resultado fue Amarok, el disco menos vendido de su discografía, el más desconocido, el más incomprendido.
Amarok es una genialidad absoluta. El único disco que está a la altura de sus primeras obras. Pero además es un grito de rabia, un golpe en la mesa de alguien que quiere demostrar que sigue siendo uno de los músicos más grandes de la música contemporánea. Oldfield quería dejar bien claro de qué era capaz. Quería demostrar que si hacía aquella música era porque le obligaban. En realidad, de algún modo, él cedió también de buena gana, pero hemos de tener en cuenta que Oldfield es prácticamente ciclotímico: de pronto ejecutó una vuelta a los orígenes radical, las antípodas de lo que estaba haciendo hacía tan sólo un año. Amarok consta de un único tema de sesenta minutos de duración sin pausas, con cambios entre melodías conscientemente bruscos, para evitar en lo posible la extracción de singles radiables. Es un disco que haría explotar los oídos de aquellos que se habían aficionado a Oldfield a partir de Moonlight Shadow y entusiasmar a los de la vieja guardia de obras progresivas.
Volvió a grabar todos los instrumentos él solo, como en los viejos tiempos, en sesiones de grabación interminables, y muy pocos colaboradores, todos además venidos del pasado: el grupo de percusión africana que aparecía en Ommadawn, los Jabula, y el legendario Paddy Moloney a las flautas.
El resultado es un trabajo completamente libre, en el que Oldfield, desatado, despreocupado de qué pueda pensar el mercado, rompe con todas las reglas. Todo en este disco es imprevisible. Es una montaña rusa vertiginosa que lleva al oyente por caminos nunca transitados en la música anteriormente. Todo vale. En la lista de instrumentos que se usó en la grabación, conviven junto a guitarras y teclados un motor eléctrico, un vaso rompiéndose contra el suelo, un cepillo de dientes. Hay momentos incomprensibles, chirriantes. Si habláramos de una novela, diría que hay oraciones agramaticales. El contraste entre momentos agresivos y relajados, momentos armoniosos y disonantes, siempre presente en sus obras clásicas, es aquí más acusado. Al igual que en Hergest Ridge, a través de un hilo argumental —un día en su propia vida— Oldfield da vida a una música sincera y desagarradora que provoca otra vez, ese torrente de sensaciones que no había tenido su música desde Incantations. Una escucha activa supone pasar por estados de ánimos contrapuestos en un tiempo brevísimo. Puede ser optimista y luminoso en un momento y deprimente y oscuro al siguiente.
Amarok es un caos ordenado. En ese frenético ritmo, esos cambios constantes que son la seña de identidad del álbum, hay un patrón muy trabajado. No es un disco improvisado: tiene una estructura férrea basada unos seis temas dentro del tema, que se repiten, que van y vienen en esos sesenta minutos. Uno oye una melodía de guitarra y media hora después reaparece con variaciones, esas variaciones que Oldfield hace tan bien. Al contrario que en sus primeros discos, donde las melodías tenían largos desarrollos, en Amarok las secciones son de un minuto, dos a lo sumo. Juega constantemente con esos vaivenes que se suceden vertiginosamente uno detrás de otro. Una emocionante hora que es una experiencia única, sin rellenos. Amarok contiene más ideas musicales, más hallazgos, que la carrera entera de muchos músicos; también más que en todos sus propios discos posteriores a éste.
Y pese a que hay un hilo invisible que conecta de alguna forma Incantations con Amarok, como si hubiera una continuidad entre ambas, hay diferencias notables y lógicas por los catorce años que separan una y otra. Otra diferencia, y no precisamente pequeña, está en su forma de tocar la guitarra eléctrica. De hecho en Amarok estrena un “nuevo” estilo en el que, a pesar de ser plenamente reconocible, hay una evolución sustancial. Es igualmente virtuoso, aunque también más lento —pese a que este álbum remite a los mejores momentos de Ommdawn o Tubular Bells, por ejemplo el que hay alrededor del minuto 37:00—, introduce efectos con cierta frecuencia — aquí comedidos y puntuales, con el tiempo, excesivos y amanerados, pero eso es otra cuestión—. Con la acústica y la española ofrece aquí algunos de los mejores momentos de su carrera con ellas, demostrando que es mejor guitarrista de lo que se piensa. Otra diferencia: mientras que en el inicio de su carrera las influencias musicales eran reconocibles —minimalismo, rock, sinfónica, folk, jazz, blues…— el eclecticismo que caracteriza a Oldfield se manifiesta en Amarok de una manera muy distinta. Salvo algún fragmento aflamencado, el resto de la música no tiene, aparentemente, referencia alguna. Ése es el motivo de que para muchos sea un disco incomprensible e incómodo de escuchar: no hay nada a lo que agarrarse, no es comparable con nada. Es Oldfield en estado puro, la música que le sale a él de la cabeza. Es la obra de alguien que ha interiorizado todo lo que ha ido escuchando y ahora lo usa para crear algo completamente nuevo, que no se parece a nada y que no volverá a repetirse jamás. Una obra maestra que tiene más valor si cabe sabiendo que Oldfield estaba muy lejos de estar en un estado de gracia
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Me gustaría ponerme en la piel de un aficionado de cierta edad que en 1990, sin saber absolutamente nada de Amarok previamente —no sólo porque sin internet todo tenía más misterio, sino porque Virgin no invirtió en su promoción—, esperando, posiblemente, encontrarse un puñado de baladas pop y dándose de bruces contra esta maravilla, esta locura anacrónica que recupera el espíritu de las grandiosas obras, no sólo de Oldfield, sino de todo el rock progresivo, cuando éste llevaba una década muerto y enterrado.
Queda cierta sensación agridulce. Como si en Amarok Oldfield volcara todo lo que le quedaba dentro, como si quisiera dar un último y glorioso golpe musical para después dejarse llevar por la corriente. En Amarok incluyó melodías y secciones de guitarra que llevaban en su cabeza desde que era un adolescente; alguna incluso fue descartada de las demos originales de Tubular Bells. Parece, y de haberlo sido no habría sorprendido, un último disco de alguien que después va a retirarse de la música, y quiere decir todo lo que aún tiene que decir, incluir todo lo que le rondaba la cabeza porque después ya no tendría donde hacerlo. No fue así. Tuvimos muchos discos más. Pero Amarok fue el último verdaderamente grande, la última obra maestra que se unía a Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn e Incantations. No son pocas.
Ennio Morricone was the son of a trumpeter and housewife, the eldest of five brothers from a settled middle-class family who lived without hardship but also without luxury in the Trastevere neighborhood . His father, a musician, was decisive in his musical dedication: " I have raised you, my family, with this instrument. You will do the same with yours."
Morricone studied trumpet at the Conservatory, and also studied harmony, when one of his teachers recommended it to him due to his evident gifts. His progress surprised his teachers again, who advised him to study composition. "I started out as a trumpet player, first accompanying musicians, and sometimes, replacing my father during World War II!" Ennio Morricone, after the war, played in hotels before the American troops; Little by little he became known as an arranger: "He placed the original melody, that of the song, always at the center, with the idea that the arrangement would retain its autonomy. In this sense, he did not think only of the" clothing "for line of the singer or section in question, but in something independent that was at the same time complementary and could be superimposed on the lyrics when there was "
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1959 to 1966. Collaborations with Miranda Martino. "In that collection I proposed avant-garde solutions that had much criticism at the time" In 1961 Voce'e notte », from the album Just Say I Love Him, "it occurred to me to accompany his voice with the arpeggio and partly with the harmony of Beethoven's Moonlight, starting precisely from the idea of Nocturne. In the Napoli collection (1963) I decided to introduce a canon between the first and the second part of "'O sole mio", making the superposition possible: while the voice sings the chorus, the melody of the stanza played by the strings is perceived as background, as if it were a memory still present in memory of."
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In 1961, coinciding with the birth of his daughter, he composed his first film soundtrack. It was about the music for the film Il Federale , by Luciano Salce, with Ugo Tognazzi and a very young Stefania Sandrelli; It is about the mission of transferring a prominent humanist who will be elected the new ruler when the war ends ...
In 1964, he began his collaborations with Bernardo Bertolucci and Sergio Leone, who made him famous: Ennio Morricone composed the catchy tune of Por un fistful of dollars, which He reported an immense popularity and many new commissions, among others, from the historical and very personal film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who collaborated with him in his trilogy of life, The Decameron, the tales of Canterbury and The Thousand and One Nights , especially this, beautiful and outstanding music in each of the stories that are related, and also the film director Gillo Pontecorvo, who filmed Queimada with Marlon Brando as the protagonist.
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At the same time, it was part of the Gruppo Internazionale d'Improvvisazione. Morricone was a musician accustomed to improvisation, and of great intuition, who allowed “history to speak” and fled from author divisms. "The music of a score does not belong to the composer but to the film. What prevails is the need of the story."
¿Amarok es Ommadawn II ? Amarok debía ser una especie de secuela de Ommadawn por lo que habia que involucrar a la mayor cantidad posible de participantes de aquel album. William Murray es el autor del cuento "Anímate, orejas de tela...".
En una entrevista, Mike declaró que tenía la intención de hacer Ommadawn 2, pero a medida que avanzaba el trabajo, ganó "vida propia" y se convirtió en algo diferente.
¿Existe una lista de canciones para Amarok? En las notas de estudio de la portada del CD de Amarok se aprecian títulos de la mayoría de los pasajes del álbum. Si desea utilizar esos tiempos: aquí hay algunas observaciones: Los dígitos que aparecen en la columna más a la izquierda de las notas, entre los títulos de las secciones, darán los tiempos correctos si agrega 2 minutos a cada uno. Eso tiene sentido, ya que la primera parte de la introducción de Amarok se agregó al final de la producción.
A mitad del disco, la voz principal en el canal derecho lee la lista de secciones en voz alta! Se escucha claramente que comienza con 'Fast riff intro'. Se detiene en 'intro waltz' y se escucha también 'scot didlybom mad bit russian' .
En el canal de la izquierda se puede escuchar "No debe ser escuchado por tontos de orejas de tela" Not to be listened to by cloth eared nincompoops repetido varias veces. Eso deja el centro del estéreo. ¿que se dice?
Finale UDF's outside the pine and tubular effort
today's drum [...indistinct...] all we're doing [...]
trouble of the heart pretty far flung tender heart
on earth and drums child's body laid to bed [every evening]
page round one.
¿Se ha tocado alguna vez Amarok en vivo? Mike ha dicho que Amarok es "una cosa muy extraña, maravillosa y complicada de tocar en vivo. Habría muchas guitarras tocando increíblemente rápido y, para ser honesto, no podría encontrar suficientes intérpretes que toquen tan rápido".
Sin embargo, ha tocado el riff de introducción en vivo en BBC Radio, y una sección en TV-AM (por lo tanto, a esta sección se le da el nombre de TV-AM como parte de Taurus 3. Esa actuación en TV-AM fue cuando Mike estaba promocionando el video de The Wind Chimes, en mayo de 1988 (18 meses antes de que comenzara a realizar Amarok), después de lo cual la presentadora Ann Diamond se refirió a Mike como una "orquesta ambulante". También durante ese programa trató de equilibrar una pelota de baloncesto giratoria en el extremo de su dedo para emular a otra invitada: Joyce Walker de los Globetrotters. Falló miserablemente.
Mike había estado descontento durante mucho tiempo con la forma en que lo trataron. Amarok es el 'adiós' de Mike a Virgin y lo escuchas en todas partes:
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Después de eso, Mike solo tuvo que escribir un álbum para cumplir con su contrato, así que se apresuró a publicar Heaven's Open (al final de Music From The Balcony hay una voz que claramente dice "vete a la mierda". No menciona a RB o nadie más. Incluso canta sus canciones él mismo para hacerlo rápido y barato. Para separar este álbum de los demás, "Michael Oldfield" está impreso en la portada, Tom Newman se llama "Thom", e incluso Virgin Records se escribe "Virgin Recordes". Pero también puede haber otra razón. Podría haber usado su nombre completo por la misma razón por la que cantó las canciones con su propia voz. Porque realmente sintió esas letras: en Gimme Back hay una letra que literalmente dice "Necesito mi voz ...". Estas canciones son descaradamente autobiográficas por naturaleza y Mike podría haberse dado cuenta de que tener la voz de otra persona para cantarlas sería una farsa. ¿Ha notado cómo en las entrevistas, los amigos y familiares más cercanos de Mike realmente usan su nombre completo, es decir: "Michael"?
¿Cuáles fueron los problemas de Mike con Virgin? En primer lugar, Richard Branson firmó con Mike un contrato no muy favorable (entregar 13 álbumes de estudio, sin incluir OTB, Boxed, Exposed, The Complete o incluso The Killing Fields) en un momento en que no estaba en condiciones de firmar nada. Cuenta la leyenda que el trato se hizo en la mesa de la cocina de Mike, pero Mike consideraba a Richard su amigo. Para ser justos con Branson, no hizo nada deshonesto deliberadamente, pero Mike finalmente se dio cuenta de que estaba encerrado
También estaba el hecho de que a medida que avanzaban los 80, Virgin no parecía querer saber de música instrumental a menos que se llamara Tubular Bells. Mike se vió obligado a escribir canciones, pero incluso cuando hizo lo que Virgin quería, no parecieron molestarse en comercializarlos.
BIOGRAPHY. FIRST YEARS

I remember a few years ago when I discovered Ennio Morricone on television, in films of the sixties, seventies or even eighties. Maybe it was a bland movie, but its melody drew my attention. Morricone has confessed that his music always begins as groping, stealthy, it is that sustained note with which each song usually begins. When that opening chord is vibrating on your skin or vibrating inside, then its delicious melody appears, masterpieces, emotional even beyond the heart and soul. I remember his initial notes, always unmistakable; My attention, then, was in the film, wishing that his music would sound again accompanied by sentimental images. Some of these films are masterpieces, but without the music of Ennio they would not be remembered as now ... The mission, inseparable from Morricone, Once upon a time in America, Cinema Paradiso ... Ennio Morricone has been and he is, one of the greatest or the greatest composer of soundtracks in history. His appearance in the credits of those films was a reason for enthusiasm, the illusion of seeing or hearing something ... wonderful and exciting.
Andrés Cabanillas
The Dream of Granada Art World
BIOGRAPHY. FIRST YEARS
COMENTA
Ennio Morricone was the son of a trumpeter and housewife, the eldest of five brothers from a settled middle-class family who lived without hardship but also without luxury in the Trastevere neighborhood . His father, a musician, was decisive in his musical dedication: " I have raised you, my family, with this instrument. You will do the same with yours."
Morricone studied trumpet at the Conservatory, and also studied harmony, when one of his teachers recommended it to him due to his evident gifts. His progress surprised his teachers again, who advised him to study composition. "I started out as a trumpet player, first accompanying musicians, and sometimes, replacing my father during World War II!" Ennio Morricone, after the war, played in hotels before the American troops; Little by little he became known as an arranger: "He placed the original melody, that of the song, always at the center, with the idea that the arrangement would retain its autonomy. In this sense, he did not think only of the" clothing "for line of the singer or section in question, but in something independent that was at the same time complementary and could be superimposed on the lyrics when there was "
I don't know
1959 to 1966. Collaborations with Miranda Martino. "In that collection I proposed avant-garde solutions that had much criticism at the time" In 1961 Voce'e notte », from the album Just Say I Love Him, "it occurred to me to accompany his voice with the arpeggio and partly with the harmony of Beethoven's Moonlight, starting precisely from the idea of Nocturne. In the Napoli collection (1963) I decided to introduce a canon between the first and the second part of "'O sole mio", making the superposition possible: while the voice sings the chorus, the melody of the stanza played by the strings is perceived as background, as if it were a memory still present in memory of."
I don't know
In 1961, coinciding with the birth of his daughter, he composed his first film soundtrack. It was about the music for the film Il Federale , by Luciano Salce, with Ugo Tognazzi and a very young Stefania Sandrelli; It is about the mission of transferring a prominent humanist who will be elected the new ruler when the war ends ...
In 1964, he began his collaborations with Bernardo Bertolucci and Sergio Leone, who made him famous: Ennio Morricone composed the catchy tune of Por un fistful of dollars, which He reported an immense popularity and many new commissions, among others, from the historical and very personal film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who collaborated with him in his trilogy of life, The Decameron, the tales of Canterbury and The Thousand and One Nights , especially this, beautiful and outstanding music in each of the stories that are related, and also the film director Gillo Pontecorvo, who filmed Queimada with Marlon Brando as the protagonist.
I don't know
At the same time, it was part of the Gruppo Internazionale d'Improvvisazione. Morricone was a musician accustomed to improvisation, and of great intuition, who allowed “history to speak” and fled from author divisms. "The music of a score does not belong to the composer but to the film. What prevails is the need of the story."