How better to score a movie that takes place in three tangentially related time periods than with music that strives for timelessness? The hallmarks of Philip Glass´s minimalism serve The Hours well. The film, based on Michael Cunningham´s novel, tells the stories of three women--Virginia Woolf in the early 1920s, a housewife just after World War II, and a book editor in the ...(展开全部) How better to score a movie that takes place in three tangentially related time periods than with music that strives for timelessness? The hallmarks of Philip Glass´s minimalism serve The Hours well. The film, based on Michael Cunningham´s novel, tells the stories of three women--Virginia Woolf in the early 1920s, a housewife just after World War II, and a book editor in the present--whose days relate in different ways to Woolf´s novel Mrs. Dalloway. Yet rather than construct a sonic montage of these three time periods (perhaps some Ravel for Woolf, some Max Steiner for the housewife, some Enya for the editor), Hours producer Scott Rudin turned to Glass, a contemporary-classical composer who has had a substantial side career in film, most notably with Koyaanisqatsi. The familiar Glass sounds--the endlessly layered violins, the static melodies, the glacial rhythms--all lend a consistent aural foundation to a story that moves fluidly back and forth in time. The music is scored for orchestra, string quartet, and piano. Those plentiful strings lend a thick cushion, a triumph of tonal suspension, for the piano part, which Michael Riesman plays coolly, emphasizing what are often single notes separated by thoughtful silences, as well as short sets of scales cascading in slow motion. Not only will these compositional themes be familiar to fans of Glass´s work, so too will several of the melodies. Some sections of the score are derived from his albums Glassworks and Solo Piano and from his opera Satyagraha--which, incidentally, involved the stories of three legendary men active in different eras.
0 有用 豆儿 2011-10-18 15:21:40
天哪就会想起电影里一个个沉重的瞬间。真心太爱这电影。
0 有用 最后一代#温 2012-10-03 12:56:26
不禁泪目
0 有用 einmal 2012-04-19 21:30:17
at times I wonder what i truly love. the movie or its sound track.
0 有用 sleepwalker 2023-05-22 12:56:57 日本
格老的音樂自帶的無序與秩序畫面感
4 有用 午谷各 2019-01-25 21:32:15
the hours 可以当作无调性音乐入门曲
0 有用 天馥冰菲New 2024-04-03 18:28:09 北京
首首精品. Morning Passages / Tearing Herself Away
0 有用 Ariel 2024-01-19 17:26:34 江苏
听Philip Glass的音乐,没想到这部电影是他配乐的,主题曲营造出来的旋律氛围实在是好
0 有用 sleepwalker 2023-05-22 12:56:57 日本
格老的音樂自帶的無序與秩序畫面感
0 有用 San值MAX 2024-09-07 17:44:22 西藏
4.5星。
0 有用 狂小礼 2024-06-23 15:04:24 广东
有点儿俗套,感觉就是很经典的音乐配乐范式