Soundtrack question

[sgsmitty]

I love the incidental music throughout the series. Of course they recycled much of it from season to season but it was good. Anyone know of a CD that is available that contains the best of this?
I looked at Amazon and they have some stuff but it seems to be for specific episodes. Was there more than one composer? Maybe that explains the by episode CDs?
Thanks

 

[Maurice]

There's a whole section of Jeff Bond's book The Music of Star Trek devoted to this.

The Music of Star Trek book

There were quite a few composers, including Alexander Courage, Fred Steiner, and Sol Kaplan. Scores were written for many individual episodes, and then cues from those scores were often re-used or re-recorded at different tempos and lengths to be "tracked" onto episodes where an original score wouldn't be written (union rules being different then).

 

[Kryton]

Varese Sarabende records released two gorgeously recorded and extremely faithful CDs some years back with the original arrangements...cues for Mudd's Women, Charlie X, and several others.

Plus a lovely stereo version of the Courage theme. Never saw a volume 3 and I don't know the availability of these discs these days.

 

[Tallguy]

They're all available on iTunes now.

 

[trevanian]

I wish those ww2 sounding battle cues from ELAAN OF TROYIUS were available. Along with Kaplan's DOOMSDAY MACHINE stuff, the Elaan cues are some of my faves, though I don't remember who scored the episode.

 

[Maurice]

trevanian said:
... the Elaan cues are some of my faves, though I don't remember who scored the episode.

Google: IMDB Elaan of Troyius

And click on MORE at the bottom of the cast.

Seriously, it's more keystrokes to write the message saying that you don't know than to use a search engine to find the answer.

 

[trevanian]

That wasn't the focus of the post, the focus was that it wasn't released. I just spent time looking under your post to see if there was a link to a cd I hadn't heard of. Now that was a waste of keystrokes.

 

[tharpdevenport]

You need to read the book they showed you.

 

[M'Sharak]

trevanian said:
I wish those ww2 sounding battle cues from ELAAN OF TROYIUS were available. Along with Kaplan's DOOMSDAY MACHINE stuff, the Elaan cues are some of my faves, though I don't remember who scored the episode.

http://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/3x13/Elaan_of_Troyius_392.JPG