mindmeld cello music source?
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^You're no doubt talking about the "Mr. Spock" cue from Gerald Fried's "Amok Time" score. That score (along with Sol Kaplan's "The Doomsday Machine" score) is available on the Star Trek Volume Two soundtrack album from GNP Crescendo:
http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Ori...=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1327937065&sr=1-2
http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Ori...=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1327937065&sr=1-2
I think that TOS has by FAR the best soundtrack out of any of the Star Treks....way better than faith of the heart...
Without question. The music seemed so perfectly tailored to the scene it was written for.
It seems, at least to me, in TOS they put so much effort in the syncing of the music to each scene and what they got was perfection that isn’t seen again in another ST series. That’s also putting aside the sheer verity of music that is in TOS as well.
Except that fewer than half the episodes had any original scoring, and mostly they just cut in stock cues written for earlier episodes. So the music didn't always fit the scene as well as it could have. At least in the modern Trek shows, virtually all the music was written specifically for the episodes and scenes it appeared in.
All the newer Star Treks many seem to do this, but listen to an episode of TNG or DS9 and it will become clear that they use music a lot less often than TOS. That isn't to say that the music from another series is bad because its all awesome! I just seems like they put the most effort into TOS
I was resisting it, but I must agree with you. There were many outstanding cues in Star Trek, but we probably feel that they're perfectly suited to the scenes because we've seen/heard them so many times over the decades...
Doug
Which has exactly nothing to do with the point I was responding to, which was about how well the music was tailored to the scenes, not simply how much of it there was.
Since the majority of TOS's music was reused while every single episode of the later shows had an entirely original score (with very rare exceptions), they definitely put far more effort into the later shows in terms of the sheer person-hours devoted to writing and recording the music relative to the number of hours produced per series. Not to mention that the orchestra size on the later shows was significantly larger, so there was more total effort put in simply because there were more people exerting effort on it.
It's just that the musical styles and philosophies of the respective shows and eras were different. The preference of Rick Berman was to use music in a more judicious and understated way than was generally the case in '60s television. Just as much effort was put into writing and performing the music and deciding what scenes should have music; it's just that the effort was directed toward making the music a more subliminal experience, a part of the background that served the whole rather than something that stood out in its own right. Personally I prefer the bigger sound of TOS, but I'm not going to make the mistake of assuming that professional creators are less competent or dedicated just because they're not trying to conform to my specific preferences.
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