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Basil Poledouris' "CONAN THE BARBARIAN" in Full Score
Basil Poledouris' "CONAN THE BARBARIAN" in Full Score
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1982’s Conan the Barbarian saw the reunion of composer Basil Poledouris and director John Milius. Their previous collaboration Big Wednesday, which called on the pair’s love of surfing had been a commercial failure, but in 1980 Milius was enjoying success with his screenplay of Apocalypse Now and his attention now turned to adapting Robert E. Howard’s saga of the Cimmerian superman, Conan.
Poledouris was appointed composer for the project months before filming began, working initially from storyboards and allowing him to develop character and ideological themes that give this score such a strong sense of identity and cohesiveness. Perhaps best remembered for its thundering percussion and strident brass themes, the smaller chamber pieces and achingly beautiful moments between Conan and Valeria should not be overlooked. Recorded in Rome in late November of 1981, Poledouris himself conducted the 90-piece orchestra and 24-member choir over the course of three weeks of recording sessions.
309 pages, 9x12 inches. Paperbound, printed in the U.K.
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Contents
1M1A Prologue
1M1B Anvil of Crom
1M2 The Riddle of Steel
1M3R Riders of Doom
1M4-2M1 The Gift of Fury
2M2 Column of Sadness/Wheel of Pain
3M3 Pit Fights
3M2 The Discipline of Steel/Freedom Council
3M1 Atlantean Gift
4M1 Alt. Warm Welcome (Movie Version)
4M1 Warm Welcome (Album Version)
4M1A Wolf Witch (Unused)
4M2A Theology
4M2 Civilization
4M2B Street of Deviants
5M1A Hopefuls at the Tower of Set
5M1S-5M2S Las Cantigas de Santa Maria (The Snake)
5M1B The Tower of Set (Unused)
5M2 The Snake (Unused)
6M1 Infidels
6M1A The Tavern
6M2 Indulgence
6M2A Mettle
7M1 The Hall of King Osric
7M2 Conan Leaves Valeria
7M2A The Search
8M1 Mountain of Power
8M1A Capture
9M1 Tree of Woe
9M2 Recovery
10M1-10M2 Warpaint
10M3 The Kitchen
10M4 Orgy Chamber
11M1 The Defilers
11M2 The Funeral Pyre
12M1 Battle of the Mounds, Pt.1
12M2R Battle of the Mounds, Pt.2
13M1R Battle of the Mounds, Pt.3
13M2 Night of Doom
13M2A Head Chop (Movie Version)
13M2A Alt. Head Chop (Early & Album Version)
14M1A Orphans of Doom
14M1 The Awakening
14M2 Conan the King/End Title
Foreword by Zoe Poledouris
Thematic & Cue Analysis by Dr. Erik Heine
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