Fred Steiner - awesome music

[A beaker full of death]

Too bad so little of his music is heard these days (outside of TOS).

This clip will have familiar strains:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxkQkZWesUI&feature=player_embedded[/yt]

They just don't make music for tv like this anymore.

 

[Basil]

Too bad so little of his music is heard these days (outside of TOS).

This clip will have familiar strains:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxkQkZWesUI

They just don't make music for tv like this anymore.

One can hear elements of Bernard Hermann, among others.

 

[scotpens]

Yes, it sounds very much like some of Steiner's "action" and "fighting" music cues from Trek TOS.

Another composer whose music is quite recognizable is Gerald Fried, who seemed to specialize in “savage” or “tribal” themes back in the 1960s and ’70s. Among the Trek episodes he scored were “Friday's Child,” “Amok Time,” “Wolf in the Fold” and “Journey to Babel.”

And who could forget George Duning’s rich, melodic scores for “Metamorphosis,” “Is There In Truth No Beauty?” and “The Empath”? In some third-season eps, the music was more memorable than the stories or the acting.

 

[Christopher]

Another composer whose music is quite recognizable is Gerald Fried, who seemed to specialize in “savage” or “tribal” themes back in the 1960s and ’70s. Among the Trek episodes he scored were “Friday's Child,” “Amok Time,” “Wolf in the Fold” and “Journey to Babel.”

Those latter two episodes only recycled stock music from various episodes including Fried's. The episodes for which Fried provided original scores were "Shore Leave," "Catspaw," "Friday's Child," "Amok Time," and "The Paradise Syndrome."

And I'd say that Fried's specialty was more generally ethnic than "tribal." He did a terrific Greek-style score (or something Mediterranean, anyway) for a first-season Mission: Impossible episode, and he's famous for scoring Roots. He also did Gilligan's Island for most of its run, taking over from John(ny) Williams midway through the first season.

 

[scotpens]

Christopher: Thanks for the info.

Oh, I visited your website. Nice pussycats!

 

[Myko]

Is there a good reference somewhere for which episodes have original scores?

 

[Christopher]

Here's the list I compiled ages ago, which has a couple of uncertainties:

Alexander Courage:
"The Cage"
"Where No Man Has Gone Before"
"The Man Trap"
"The Naked Time"

Courage also did the "log entry" music in ST:TMP and worked as Jerry Goldsmith's orchestrator on FC and INS.

Credited to Courage, actually ghostwritten by Scott Huston:
"The Enterprise Incident"
"Plato's Stepchildren"
(There's no verified proof of this, but Huston was a friend of my father and mentioned this to him and to the local newspaper; also they're in a distinct style from Courage's work in the pilots and first season.)

Fred Steiner:
"The Corbomite Maneuver" (partial score)
"Mudd's Women"
"Charlie X"
"Balance of Terror"
"What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
"The City on the Edge of Forever" (partial score)
"Who Mourns for Adonais?"
"Mirror, Mirror"
"By Any Other Name"
"Elaan of Troyius"
"Spock's Brain"

And possibly:
"The Omega Glory" ("Star-Spangled Banner" arrangement)?
"The Way to Eden" (songs, music only)?
(These episodes have no other original music.)

Steiner also scored TNG: "Code of Honor," the only TOS composer to cross over.

George Duning:
"Metamorphosis"
"Return to Tomorrow"
"Patterns of Force"
"And the Children Shall Lead"
"Is There in Truth No Beauty?"
"The Empath"

Gerald Fried:
"Shore Leave"
"Catspaw"
"Friday's Child"
"Amok Time"
"The Paradise Syndrome"

Sol Kaplan:
"The Enemy Within"
"The Doomsday Machine"

Jerry Fielding
"The Trouble With Tribbles"
"Spectre of the Gun"

Joseph Mullendore
"The Conscience of the King"

Samuel Matlovsky
"I, Mudd"

Desilu music supervisor Wilbur Hatch wrote the music to the song "Beyond Antares" in "Conscience of the King." Ivan Ditmars composed the Brahms paraphrase in "Requiem for Methuselah." The harpsichord music in "The Squire of Gothos" includes the Sonata in C Major, K.159 by Domenico Scarlatti and Roses from the South by Johann Strauss II.

 

[tharpdevenport]

I believe all three episodes of the long-running TV series "Dynasty" he scored, are up on YouTube. Hulu.com has at least two of them. Here is a suite I amde from the first episode he scored:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LgoT6B6EL0

 

[Bad Atom]

This site has a list of which episodes have original or tracked music scores. Great resource:

http://www.startreksoundtracks.com/

 

[Ssosmcin]

Another composer whose music is quite recognizable is Gerald Fried, who seemed to specialize in “savage” or “tribal” themes back in the 1960s and ’70s. Among the Trek episodes he scored were “Friday's Child,” “Amok Time,” “Wolf in the Fold” and “Journey to Babel.”

Those latter two episodes only recycled stock music from various episodes including Fried's.

Journey to Babel, however, did use a variation of the fight music from "Mirror Mirror" during Kirk's encounter with Thelev. This was most likely just another with a different ending recorded at the same time. But it was the one and only use of that version of the fight music.

 

[Christopher]

The "Mirror, Mirror"/"Journey to Babel" fight music in question is actually a Steiner arrangement of Courage's Kirk-Mitchell fight music from the second pilot.