{"id":16296,"date":"2025-01-20T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/?p=16296"},"modified":"2025-01-20T06:48:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T05:48:16","slug":"morning-songennio-morricone-on-earth-as-it-is-in-heaven-the-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/2025\/01\/20\/morning-songennio-morricone-on-earth-as-it-is-in-heaven-the-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning song#Ennio Morricone #On earth as it is in heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the face of it, The Mission<\/em> would seem like a surprising choice for Australia\u2019s favourite piece of film music in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As far as the film world goes, Roland Joff\u00e9\u2019s colonial drama about a Jesuit mission on 18th century Guaran\u00ed land has today been largely forgotten. Music aside,\u00a0TheMission<\/em>\u00a0rarely appears on retrospective lists or tops critical favourites. At the time of writing, the film is surprisingly unavailable to watch in Australia on any digital service, whether that\u2019s streaming or for purchase, and readers wanting to see the film will have to turn to DVD. And that\u2019s if indeed they do want to see it at all: a quick internet search for the film and its director turns up 112,000 results. By contrast, the same search for the number two entry in the 2013 list (Star Wars and Lucas) returns roughly 52 million. On the cinephile social network Letterboxd,\u00a0The Mission<\/em>\u00a0languishes as the 36th most-watched film from the year 1986 \u2014 just behind\u00a0Howard the Duck<\/em>\u00a0(oof)and\u00a0Friday the 13th: Part VI<\/em>\u00a0(yikes).Re-vote for the Classic 100: Music in the Movies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the triumph of The Mission<\/em> in the Classic 100 is not so surprising once you listen to its music. Ennio Morricone is a composer of prodigious output \u2014 some 400 scores so far, from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly<\/em> to Cinema Paradiso<\/em> \u2014 and for many, The Mission<\/em> sits atop that formidable list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answer to The Mission<\/em>\u2019s popularity in part lies in \u201cGabriel\u2019s Oboe\u201d, a soaring main theme for the film written in a post-Renaissance style, full of ornamentation and intricacy. It is not an insult to The Mission<\/em> but a compliment to Morricone to say that a great many more people have heard this piece of music than seen the film it was written for. \u201cGabriel\u2019s Oboe\u201d has lived a long and graceful life beyond The Mission<\/em>, from the concert hall to formal gatherings and the everyday background of people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A great soundtrack, undoubtedly. A film in its twilight, possibly. But there\u2019s more to\u00a0The Mission<\/em>, Morricone\u2019s score, and its complex legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Posted from: https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/listen\/classic\/read-and-watch\/music-reads\/ennio-morricone-music-for-the-mission\/11876172<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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