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| | The New World | | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Watertower Music | | Release Date : | | 2006-01-24 | | Store Price : | | $16.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $16.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. The New World
2. First Landing
3. A Flame Within
4. An Apparition In The Fields...
5. Journey Upriver
6. Of The Forest
7. Pocahontas And Smith
8. Forbidden Corn
9. Rolfe Proposes
10. Winter - Battle
11. All Is Lost
12. A Dark Cloud is Forever Lifted
13. Listen To The Wind
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Good Soundtrack
Submitted on: 2009-10-24 |
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I tried watching the movie a couple years ago and never made it to the end. In my opinion, it had potential to be a great movie, but it just moved too slowly...maybe I'll try watching it again someday and change my opinion.
The soundtrack, however, is amazing. It is full of Horner's trademark sound as well as unique sounds I have never heard Horner use before. From amazing orchestral pieces (Journey Upriver) to very mellow piano playing (Rolfe Proposes) this soundtrack has a lot of elements that make it very enjoyable to listen to. In three songs, bird sounds are added at the beginning that fade into the orchestra creating a very relaxing atmosphere.
I give this soundtrack 5/5 stars. |
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 James Horner's elegant and ethereal score for "The New World"
Submitted on: 2009-06-02 |
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Over the years, many people have grown impatient with composer James Horner's method of continuously employing several of his own trademark styles and composition techniques in his film scores. Some view this as self-plagiarism, and some have gone so far as to identify these familiar techniques as "Hornerisms." From a technical standpoint, these claims are valid because it is very obvious to the ear whenever Horner reuses an idea or motif from a past score. In short, a lot of his music sounds similar. But from an artistic standpoint, one can easily understand Horner's decision to "reinvent" his own ideas and use them in his scores. His restrained approach to the music "The New World" is a fine example to understand this.
There are hints of several past Horner scores such as "Titanic," "A Beautiful Mind," and "The Missing" tucked neatly into this score. With a few appropriately sweeping themes to support the film's epic narrative, the music for "The New World" could typically be considered an extension of the previously mentioned scores. However, the success of "The New World" is largely due to the elegant and fresh atmosphere Horner maintains throughout it. There are many fantastic elements in the music, including the sound effect of birds chirping to enhance the mood of some of the score's more pastoral sections. This is heard in both the title track "The New World" and the gorgeous "Of the Forest" which features seven minutes of uninterrupted, meditative beauty. The harsh "Winter Battle" cue calls to mind certain moments in "Braveheart" with its eerie instrumentation backed by a droning bass line. The most memorable cue in the score is "A Dark Cloud is Forever Lifted." Though nearly ten minutes in length, Horner brings the score to a close with an ethereal statement of the "New World" theme accompanied by a rolling piano motif, making this the highlight of the score. Another noteworthy element of the score is Horner's use of a solo female voice (supplied marvelously by Hayley Westenra of Celtic Woman) over strings, woodwinds, and synthesizers. This technique is present in almost every cue and it serves to evoke the romantic spirit of the relationship between the film's most important characters, Pocahontas and John Smith. The album closes with an original song by Horner entitled "Listen to the Wind" sung by Westenra. Overall, it is a nice rendition of the love theme that contains hints of both tragedy and romance, and Westenra's vocals add beautifully to the effect.
It is rather unfortunate that we live in a culture where people constantly thirst for originality. We often cheat ourselves out of discovering something that is genuinely artful and contemplative although it may seem familiar to our senses at first. James Horner's score for "The New World" could qualify as such an art. It has enough moments of pure harmonic beauty that should garner repeated listenings. |
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The Best James Horner Soundtrack but ....
Submitted on: 2008-09-08 |
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It's probably the best James Horner soundtrack but don't watch the movie first, instead to listening the OST
you will be desapointed, the movie got the nice music but we don't find in the ost and I wished ... |
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 Music not from the movie!
Submitted on: 2008-09-04 |
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| So disappointing to get this soundtrack, fast forward through the entire CD looking for anything that sounded familiar from the movie, only to find track after track of poorly recorded movie background sounds. The movie itself has powerful, emotion gripping scenes with little dialog, but lots of music that gets right at your heart. None of this is on the CD. |
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Passes the Supreme Test: My Cat Likes It
Submitted on: 2008-08-10 |
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Those who are displeased by the omission of music not written by Horner himself should take note of the playing time of this CD: 79:37. And, the Wagner, Mozart, and Purcell themes are available in their entirety on many other recordings.
Horner's music for The New World follows the current trend of film writing: There's little counterpoint, no chromaticism, and much simplicity. It's completely different from how scores used to be written, but in this case I think it works well.
The score uses a narrower instrumentation. The writing has wordless female voices singing in an ethereal and soothing blend, also strings, woodwinds, piano, and birds (which may account for my cat's approval).
Only a few tracks use brass. Yet, the instruments and voices seldom are heard all together; there are instead, alternations between them. Because of this, the music is very easy on the ears and senses. It never overwhelms and never overdoes the drama (which the movie itself supplies in abundance anyway). All this understatement helps the score to draw the listener in rather than to create exhaustion.
While Horner's score is relaxing, it is still quite serious in tone, and therefore has much more depth than so-called New Age music.
If listeners can approach this CD on its own merit and forgive absences of some of the film's classical melodies, the experience can be most rewarding. |
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