Jerry Goldsmith's "GREMLINS" in Full Score

After their first collaboration, 1983’s Twilight Zone: The Movie, director Joe Dante and composer Jerry Goldsmith reunite a year later for the mischievously funny horror movie Gremlins. At this time, Goldsmith is deep into his experimentation with analogue synthesizers and the combination of electronics and traditional orchestral instruments works surprisingly well, creating a subversively silly tone that matches the on-screen chaos.

Incorporating a total of eight synthesizers, a drum machine and a digital polyphonic sequencer, the score reads like a “who’s-who” of classic 80s synths. Roland’s Jupiter-6 (notably providing the “cat’s meow” sound heard prominently when the Gremlins turn evil), Sequential Circuits’ Prophet T8, Rhodes‘ Chroma, Yamaha’s GS1, Moog’s memorymoog, a pair of Yamaha’s ubiquitous DX7’s and an Oberheim trio; the OB-8 synth, DSX sequencer and DMX drum machine round out the electronics.

Rather than being pre-recorded or fed directly into the mixing desk, these were amplified and played live with the 80-piece orchestra under the baton of maestro Goldsmith.

194 pages, 9x12 inches. Paperbound, printed in the U.K.

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Contents

R1PA Warner Bros Sig. (Fanfare in C)
R1P1 The Shop
R1P2 The Little One
R1P4 Late for Work
R2P2 Mrs. Deagle
R2P3 That Dog
R3P3 The Gift
R3P5 First Aid
R3P7 Spilt Water
R4P2 A New One
R4P3 The Lab
R4P4 Old Times
R5P2 The Injection
R5P5 Snack Time
R5P7 The Wrong Time
R6P1 The Box
R6P2 First Aid
R6P3 Disconnected
R6P5 Hurry Home
R7P2 Kitchen Fight
R7P3 Dirty Linen
R7P4 The Pool
R7P5 God Rest You Merry Gentlemen
R8P2 The Plow
R8P3 Special Delivery
R8P4 High Flyer
R8P5 Too Many Gremlins
R9P3 No Santa Claus
R10P1 After Theater
R10P3 Theater Escape
R10P4 Stripe is Loose
R11P1 Toy Dept.
R11P2 O Tannenbaum
R11P3 No Gizmo
R11P4 The Fountain
R12P1 Stripe's Death
R12P2 Goodbye Billy
R12P3 End Title

Thematic & Cue Analysis by Dr. Erik Heine