![]() The melody here is constructed almost entirely out of one of Morricones favorite melodic devices: the anticipation, which states a note twice successively, first on a weak beat then on a strong beat. Morricone immediately reveals his penchant for unusual scorings as he sets the first statement for harpsichord and vibraphone accompanied by the cello. I begin with Jills theme, or what is generally referred to as the films main theme. This and the following two posts will provide film music analyses that examine these devices in his themes for Once Upon a Time in the West, another Leone western that followed soon after the dollars trilogy. Perhaps I am deceiving myself by thinking that while following the theme, people also assimilate and appreciate the instrumental solutions. If you take away the melody from all my pieces of this or other types, the piece still will remain on its own feet. ![]() Indeed, in a translated volume of lectures by Morricone and musicologist Sergio Miceli, Morricone remarks that.
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