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FA6703 Da uomo a uomo / Death Rides a Horse
Auther: Jonathan Broxton

ENNIO MORRICONE REVIEWS, Part 2-27

DA UOMO A UOMO [DEATH RIDES A HORSE] (1967)

Da Uomo a Uomo, known in English as Death Rides a Horse, is a brutal spaghetti western directed by Giulio Petroni about, as they often are, revenge and murder. The film stars Lee Van Cleef as Ryan, a gunfighter who is released from a prison after 15 years, having been framed for an armed robbery. As he sets out to track down the members of the gang who framed him he repeatedly crosses paths with Bill (John Philip Law), a young man whose entire family was murdered 15 years previously by members of the same gang that framed Ryan, and who is looking for vengeance of his own.

Morricone’s score for the film is based mostly around two recurring main themes: “Death Rides a Horse” and “Monody for Guitar.” The main “Death Rides a Horse” theme is a nerve-jangling piece for a bank of acoustic guitars, overlaid with an array of the unusual sound effects that Morricone often used for scores like this, notably a wildly impressionistic pan flute, rattling tambourines and driven timpani, and a chanted choral song espousing lyrics of impending doom (“he’ll be comin’ down the mountains, he’ll be drivin’ all his hatred”).

“Monody for Guitar,” meanwhile, is a more sorrowful sounding piece for guitars and hummed vocals that speaks to the lonely quest for vengeance undertaken by both men. There is also a slower piece, “Mystic and Severe,” which becomes quite hypnotic, and some more brooding tension music in “Anger and Sorrow” and “Alone in the Dark”.

The score for Death Rides a Horse was been released several times over the years. The best is the one released by GDM Music in 2004, which presents a more concise version of the music in a tight 45-minute package, although again there are five variations on the main theme, and three versions of the Monody for Guitar; it was re-released in 2010, again by GDM, with the addition of some stereo bonus cues.

Track Listing: 1. Death Rides a Horse #1 (3:21), 2. Guitar Nocturne (2:51), 3. Death Rides a Horse #2 (2:02), 4. Monody for Guitar #1 (2:40), 5. Ghost (0:46), 6. Death Rides a Horse #3 (2:55), 7. Alone in the Night (3:26), 8. Mystic and Severe #1 (3:08), 9. Monody for Guitar #2 (3:38), 10. A Man and a Whistle (3:23), 11. Anger and Sorrow (2:57), 12. Death Rides a Horse #4 (4:19), 13. Monody for Guitar #3 (4:57), 14. Death Rides a Horse #5 (1:26), 15. Mystic and Severe #2 (2:28), 16. Death Rides a Horse – Vocal Version (2:28). GDM Music 2040, 46 minutes 45 seconds.
August 20, 2017
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001
DEATH RIDES A HORSE (sung By Raoul)
002
ANGER AND SORROW
003
ALONE IN THE NIGHT
004
DA UOMO A UOMO (ATTANASIO)
005
MYSTIC AND A WHISTLE (Mystic and Severe)
006
A MAN AND A WHISTLE
007
MONODY FOR GUITAR
008
GHOST
009
RIDE INTO FREEDOM
010
GUITAR NOCTURNE
011
A MILLION DOLLARS
012
MONODY
013
NOTTURNO TRAGICO
014
PSICHEDELICO N.2
015
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Attachment: About Jonathan Broxton
Jon is a film music critic and journalist, who since 1997 has been the editor and chief reviewer for Movie Music UK, one of the world’s most popular English-language film music websites, and is the president of the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA). Over the last 20+ years Jon has written over 3,000 reviews and articles and conducted numerous composer interviews. In print, Jon has written reviews and articles for publications such as Film Score Monthly, Soundtrack Magazine and Music from the Movies, and has written liner notes for two of Prometheus Records’ classic Basil Poledouris score releases, “Amanda” and “Flyers/Fire on the Mountain”. He also contributed a chapter to Tom Hoover’s book “Soundtrack Nation: Interviews with Today’s Top Professionals in Film, Videogame, and Television Scoring”, published in 2011. In the late 1990s Jon was a film music consultant to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, and worked with them on the films “Relative Values” with music by John Debney, and “The Ring of the Buddha” with music by Oliver Heise, as well as on a series of concerts with Randy Newman. In 2012, Jon chaired one of the “festival academies” at the 5th Annual Film Music Festival in Krakow, Poland. He is a member of the Society of Composers and Lyricists, the premier nonprofit organization for composers, lyricists, and songwriters working motion pictures, television, and multimedia. (Here)
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