Released 1972 Music from Macbeth
(1972) Prophecies
(1972) Release date 1972 Producer Andrew King | Length 43:42 Artist Third Ear Band Movie Macbeth Genre Progressive rock | |
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Recorded Air Studios, London, 1971 Label Harvest Records (original release)
BGO Records (1990 reissue)
Blueprint Records (reissue) Progressive rock albums Not Necessarily Acoustic, The Inconsolable Secret, Rick Wakeman's Greatest, The Steve Howe Album, Supernatural Fairy Tales: The Progr | ||
Third ear band overture the beach
Music from Macbeth is a 1972 album by the Third Ear Band. It consists of the soundtrack from Roman Polanski's 1971 film Macbeth, an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth.
Contents
Composition
The band composed original music for the film, by adding electronic music to hand drums, woodwinds and strings. Elements of music in India and the Middle East and jazz were also incorporated into the score.
While the score has some Middle Ages influence, this is not found in the scenes where Duncan is assassinated and Macbeth is killed. Polanski and the band used aleatoric music for these scenes, to communicate chaos.
Track listing
- "Overture" – 4:20
- "The Beach" – 1:54
- "Lady Macbeth" – 1:47
- "Inverness: Macbeth's Return/The Preparation/Fanfare/Duncan's Arrival" – 5:00
- "The Banquet" – 1:21
- "Dagger and Death" – 2:49
- "At the Well/The Princes's Escape/Coronation/Come Sealing Night" – 3:03
- "Court Dance" – 2:28
- "Fleance" – 4:02
- "Grooms' Dance" – 4:21
- "Bear Baiting" – 1:10
- "Ambush/Banquo's Ghost" – 2:27
- "Going to Bed/Blind Man's Buff/Requiescant/Sere and Yellow Leaf" – 3:04
- "The Cauldron" – 2:39
- "Prophesies" – 1:53
- "Wicca Way" – 1:24
(All compositions by Bridges, Sweeney, Minns, and Buckmaster.)
Personnel
Songs
1Overture4:20
2The Beach1:54
3Lady Macbeth1:48
References
Music from Macbeth Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA