Quigley Down Under Score

WaddWatsonEllis · August 17, 2010, 02:17:38 AM

All through the movie, the soundtrack returns to one piece of music

It kind sounds Scott Joplinesque, but if it is it would be about 20 years too early ... or maybe not.

Does anyone have any information on it?

I tried to read it in the screneplay, but my eyes are a bit too presbyotic to see the type ...

Deadeye Dick · August 17, 2010, 11:13:21 AM

Artist: Basil Pledouris

Deadeye Dick

WaddWatsonEllis · August 17, 2010, 11:15:59 AM

Deadeye,

Thanks! I'll look him up .....

WaddWatsonEllis · August 17, 2010, 11:39:32 AM

Deadeye,

I liked the soundtrack so much that I ordered it in a CD .... and if there is any notes from the author when I get it I will let you know ....*S*

Harley Starr · August 17, 2010, 06:53:47 PM

I purchased a copy of the soundtrack from the Shiloh Rifle website.

Unfortunately, Basil Poledouris is no longer with us.

WaddWatsonEllis · August 17, 2010, 09:04:19 PM

Ridgeway Texican Ranger,

I went first to his website and it says the same thing .... but I wondered if he took variations from a specific rag and altered it to fit the mood ... much the way that 'The Sting' used alot of Scott Joplin ... the time period would be early for rags ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragtime

WaddWatsonEllis · August 26, 2010, 11:46:45 PM

I got the soundtrack about a week ago .... and I have thoroughly enjoyed it!

It says it is 'The complete Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'

And it is a mixture of music of the period mixed in with a great orchestral backup ....

Harley Starr · August 27, 2010, 09:01:02 AM

Quote from: WaddWatsonEllis on August 26, 2010, 11:46:45 PM
I got the soundtrack about a week ago .... and I have thoroughly enjoyed it!

It says it is 'The complete Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'

And it is a mixture of music of the period mixed in with a great orchestral backup ....

The Elderly Kid · September 03, 2010, 10:23:26 AM

The late Basil Poledouris was certainly versatile. He wrote the score to "Conan the Barbarian," one of the best film scores of all time, and certainly not Joplinesque. Also "Robocop" and numerous others.

Crow Choker · September 05, 2010, 07:21:35 AM

Hey WWE, where did you get the CD score at? I'd like to get it and the one from the TBS movie "Gettysburg" and the "The last of the Mohicans" (one made in '90's). Quess I should check Amazon before posting this, but already typin'.

WaddWatsonEllis · September 05, 2010, 08:45:09 AM

Spot on: I was able to pick one up at Amazon.com.

If that doesn't work, there are a lotta little Amazon-like companies that do the same thing ... I would type in 'Gettysburg PBS Score for sale'.

If that doesn't show anything, I would check with the local used record/CD businesses .... out her Dimple is the biggest ...

It took me a year, but I found an out-of-print CD that is a collector's item ... cost? $10 ....

Crow Choker · September 06, 2010, 06:56:24 AM

Thank you WWE. I've located Last of Moch & Gettysburg already on amazon. Love those scores, there are a few others I'm going to try and find(Quig DU includ) as long as I'm ordering. Back around '96 or '97, I had my TV linked to my stereo/cassette player-recorder. I rented a bunch of movies that had favorite/enjoyable scores and recorded the favorites onto a cassette. Was a pain to do, as back in those days DVD's were the 'newfangled kid on the block' and dvd players were pretty much something ya just heard about-maybe unheard of, at least here in the upper mid-west, maybe they were not even around, can't remember. Anyway, did it one night during a snow storm playing/recording a bunch of scores, playing-rewinding-playing-rewinding-playing!!!!!Pain in the rear!!!!!!!!!!!!Had a cassette full of em, but sometimes the way they play them in the movie, the score will get broken up for different scenes, dialoge, etc., so some of the scores were not as ya get them on a 'pure store boughten' one. Did enjoy it though, but it showed up missing one time, never did figure out what happened to it-should have made a duplicate and never attempted to do again as prementioned-it was a pain.(in case some copyright Nazi is reading this, if ya wanna get me for copywrite infringement for doing it for my own use, go for it). Anyway it would be alot simpler now doing it with dvd's, but I'm going to to the easy way and just buy em, ya get complete scores without the hassle. Bet it would be a real challenge to try and do it on 8-tracks-still have 2-3 blank ones left over for the 'old days'. Wonder what kids would think of those things today that have known nothing but cd's and i-phones or what ever ya call them. Memory lane. Have a good day if ya ever read this. Yers- Crow Choker

WaddWatsonEllis · September 06, 2010, 09:03:06 AM

Crow Choker,

In the case of the QDU Soundtrack CD, there is a lot of music that was originallly written for the movie that was never used, but is on the soundtrack ... and I like all of it!

So in this case, one is getting 15-20 minutes more of music than if the movie soundtrack was copied .... and all for about $20 and change, including shipping! (used of course) ...