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Old 05-July-2005, 12:40 PM
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Default Re: Best Sci Fi Music

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Originally Posted by Chip
Bernard Herrmann wrote the some of the best SciFi movie and TV film scores. Counting only some of the SciFi and/or Fantasy films:

The Day the Earth Stood Still
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
The Three Worlds of Gulliver
Jason and the Argonauts
Mysterious Island

The Twilight Zone: Intro and Closing Credits Themes and incidental music, plus complete music for episodes:
Where is Everybody?
Little Girl Lost
Living Doll
Ninety Years without Slumbering
I Am the Night - Color Me Black

(also non-SciFi great films like Citizen Kane, North by Northwest, Psycho, etc... =D>
I'm with you re Herrmann. Not just for science fiction, but music in general. What a composer! Don't forget Vertigo!

Alexander Courage would have to be a runner-up, along with Jerry Goldsmith, and Louis and Bebe Barron for their wonderful and effective innovations.
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