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 Although Tarantino has used Morricone's music before in his
movies, including both instalments of "Kill Bill", this is the
first time Morricone has written a complete soundtrack for the
American director.
It was nominated for a Golden Globe on Thursday in the Best
Original Score category, although Morricone was not yet aware of
that when Reuters asked for his reaction at the London premiere.
"That's good! I am happy, I didn't know," he said.
The soundtrack could well be the most menacing piece that
Morricone, who wrote the themes for "The Good, the Bad and the
Ugly" and "Fistful of Dollars", has ever composed.
Grumbling, low-voiced bassoons and droning string basses are
among the instruments he uses in an all-purpose piece called
"Snow". It evokes the storm that traps the film's heavily armed
cast of bounty hunters in a remote, snowbound haberdashery in
Wyoming after the American Civil War.
"It's almost a motionless piece of music," Morricone, 87, told
Reuters in an interview in conjunction with the premiere.
He had traveled from his home in Rome to conduct a Czech
orchestra for a direct-to-vinyl recording of the score at the
legendary Abbey Road Studios in London that will be released by
Decca Records. Tarantino attended the recording session.
Morricone said he had left it to the music editor to use the
"Snow" piece as needed. In other tracks he sought to convey "the
poverty, the rage, the suffering and the irony and the drama of
the story and the characters".
Although it is the first time in 40 years that Morricone has
composed music for a Western, he said he had not viewed the
project that way.
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"I ignored the label 'Western' because for me it is an adventure, a
historical drama set in a very specific period of American
history... for me it is not a 'Western' film," he said.
He said that after Tarantino asked him to compose the soundtrack,
he'd been given a script, had a half hour conversation with the
director and been left pretty much to his own devices.
"He didn't give me any clue, any indication, any specific
requirement, he just gave me complete freedom," Morricone said in
remarks translated from Italian, adding that he had composed it all
without seeing a single filmed sequence.
"It was a big responsibility... but I think he's apparently happy
with the result."
Earlier this year the trade press reported a rift between Morricone
and Tarantino over remarks the composer made saying the director had
used various pieces by Morricone in his films in a manner that was
not coherent.
"It was just a kind of observation that he used my music but the
result is an inconsistent music score because it is a soundtrack
made up of pieces written for other films," he said.
"For this film he's going to have a very, very consistent soundtrack
because I wrote it all."
(Reporting by Michael Roddy; addition reporting by Marie-Louise
Gumuchian; Editing by Toby Chopra)
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