Searching for music used in Greenaway's films
Magnus Eriksson
in Peter Greenaway's ZOO and "The belly of an Architect"? I can't remember
that I was particularly caught by the music in "The Draughtsman's Contract"
but any reference is welcome. (I have always missed the text that said who.)
P.G. always seems to use music as much as composition of picture to create
his "moods" and effects. It may be cheap or not, good or bad, I don't know
yet, but I want to dig into it a bit more before I make up my mind.
In case you know if recordings are available, especially on CD, I would be
happy to know that too.
His movies do not reach us very fast up here. I have heard that there is
at least one after "The belly of an Architect". Does anyone know the title(s)?
magnus
Nick Watkins
>Could anyone please help me with the name(s) of the composer(s) to the music
>in Peter Greenaway's ZOO and "The belly of an Architect"? I can't remember
>that I was particularly caught by the music in "The Draughtsman's Contract"
>but any reference is welcome. (I have always missed the text that said who.)
>P.G. always seems to use music as much as composition of picture to create
>his "moods" and effects. It may be cheap or not, good or bad, I don't know
>yet, but I want to dig into it a bit more before I make up my mind.
>In case you know if recordings are available, especially on CD, I would be
>happy to know that too.
Records" (TER). I have the LP so email me if you want the catalogue
number. There are also records by Nyman of some of his other music.
>His movies do not reach us very fast up here. I have heard that there is
>at least one after "The belly of an Architect". Does anyone know the title(s)?
recently appeared in rec.arts.movies.
Nick
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J Levine
>in Peter Greenaway's ZOO and "The belly of an Architect"? I can't remember
>that I was particularly caught by the music in "The Draughtsman's Contract"
>but any reference is welcome. (I have always missed the text that said who.)
It's by Michael Nyman.
>P.G. always seems to use music as much as composition of picture to create
>his "moods" and effects. It may be cheap or not, good or bad, I don't know
>yet, but I want to dig into it a bit more before I make up my mind.
>In case you know if recordings are available, especially on CD, I would be
>happy to know that too.
I agree with you strongly; the musical score is an integral part of
Greenaway's films. Most of the soundtracks seem to be available on LP,
and presumably CD too, if you happen to go in for that kind of thing.
I know for a fact that the music for "The Draughtsman's Contract" is
available on the Chrysalis label, at least here in Britain. I think
Nyman's scores can hold their own with the best of Reich and Glass.
>His movies do not reach us very fast up here. I have heard that there
>is at least one after "The belly of an Architect". Does anyone know the
>title(s)?
The latest one that I know of is "Drowning by Numbers". A fine story of
murder, games playing, ritual, and the integers from 1 to 100. It has
another fine score from Nyman.
>magnus
John Levine, Cambridge University Computer Lab.
Juha Tretjakov
The composer of Peter Greenaway's films is Michael Nyman and he
certainly is hell of a film music maker. I saw Zoo some years ago and
sure liked the music, which reminds me something like Vivaldi kind of
baroque. In Draughter's Contract the music is much alike, but I still
prefer Zoo.
I haven't seen any recordings of the music, I only have heard some
rumors about Zoo soundtrack. When Zoo was performed in Helsinki, I
made a C-cassette copy direct from the film track with assistence of
film machine user. It is a lousy copy far away from hifi, but it is
something. It contains whole soundtrack, not only the music.
I don't know about new movies from Greenaway. We don't get those
here very soon either.
(Excuse my english, but it sure is better than swedish...)
--
jurpo
Neal Harman
(which follows The Belly of an Architect), and, I believe, his new film
(called something like The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and Her Lover: not
sure if this is right) is Micheal Nyman (sp?). I can't remember the composer(s)
for The Belly of an Architect, but an almost certain it is not Nyman.
An LP of the soundtrack of Drowning by Numbers was on sale when the film
was being shown in London, though I haven't seen it or anything else
since (mind you, I haven't looked very hard).
neal
Fred ter Haar
>at least one after "The belly of an Architect". Does anyone know the title(s)?
His last film was shown in Venice a couple of weeks ago and is called The
Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover. Michael Nyman wrote the music for
the film.
Fred ter Haar.
John Kitamura
A (in)complete Greenaway filmography:
1966 TRAIN (5 mn)
TREE (16 mn)
1967 REVOLUTION (8 mn)
FIVE POSTCARDS FROM CAPITAL CITIES (35 mn, Music: Micheal Nyman)
1969 INTERVALS (7 mn)
1971 EROSION (27 min)
1973 H IS FOR HOUSE (9 mn, Music: Vivaldi (Four Seasons))
1975 WINDOWS (4 mn, Music: Rameau)
WATER (5 mn, Music: Max Eastley)
WATER WRACKETS (12 mn, Music: Max Eastley)
1976 GOOLE BY NUMBERS (40 mn)
DEAR PHONE (17 mn)
1978 ONE TO ONE HUNDRED (1-100) (4 mn, Music: Micheal Nyman)
A WALK THROUGH H (41 mn, Music: Micheal Nyman)
VERTICAL FEATURES REMAKE (45 mn, Music: Micheal Nyman, Brian Eno)
1979 ZANDRA RHODES (15 mn)
1980 THE FALLS (185mn(!), Music: Micheal Nyman, Brian Eno, John Hyde, Keith
Pendlebury)
1981 ACT OF GOD (28mn)
1982 THE DRAUGHTSMAN'S CONTRACT (108mn, Music: Micheal Nyman)
1983 FOUR AMERICAN COMPOSERS (55mn x 4; John Cage, Robert Ashley, Phillip
Glass, Meredith Monk)
1984 MAKING A SPLASH (25mn, Music: Micheal Nyman)
DANTE'S INFERNO (15mn, Greenaway and Tom Phillips)
1985 BATHROOMS (28mn, Music: Micheal Nyman)
A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS (ZOO) (115mn, Music: Micheal Nyman)
1986 THE BELLY OF AN ARCHITECT (115mn, Music: Glenn Brance, Wim Mertens)
1987(?) DROWNING BY NUMBERS (??mn, Music: Micheal Nyman)
FEAR OF DROWNING (??mn, Music: Micheal Nyman)
1989(?) THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER (??mn, Music: ??)
Micheal Nyman did at least one (I think two) records for Brian Eno's Obscure
Records. He then was the Musical Director for the Portsmouth Sinfonietta
(a pseudo-Eno project which also brought forth one record). The soundtracks
for "THE DRAUGHTSMAN'S CONTRACT" and "DROWNING BY NUMBERS" are available on
Virgin reocrds and CDs. Nyman's opera, "THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A
HAT" (based on Oliver Sacks' case study) is available on CBS Masterworks
records and CDs.
kato