Artist artifact
Film Score
Ennio Morricone
Composer of spaghetti Western sound worlds—whistles, electric guitar, choir, and melody as dust and fate.
Biography
Composer of spaghetti Western sound worlds—whistles, electric guitar, choir, and melody as dust and fate.
Influence
Rewired what film music could sound like outside Hollywood late-Romantic defaults; sampled endlessly.
Historical context
Composer of spaghetti Western sound worlds—whistles, electric guitar, choir, and melody as dust and fate. Rewired what film music could sound like outside Hollywood late-Romantic defaults; sampled endlessly. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly theme is as identifiable as any pop hook—cinema as pop distribution.
Associated instruments
- Composition
- Trumpet
Specimen note
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly theme is as identifiable as any pop hook—cinema as pop distribution.