LAST LISTENED TO not very sure
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT too low, too low
RATING
Ennio Morricone is simply a genius. He is one of the most distinctive composers in film, so much so that his cultural impact is beyond reckoning. This is particularly true for the music he composed for just a fistful of Western films. The success of that music has caused it to be forever linked in the western consciousness to the Western film genre, in fact to be the very defining music of that genre.
This tune was the main title music to the first Western he scored. As such it would have been the first piece of such music that reached a mass audience. With hindsight, it clearly points the way for the music that was to follow. From the opening Spanish guitar picking, to the whistling, brass, semi-incoherent male grunting and all the other usual and not at all usual film instrumentation, it carries in it both space and high drama, the perfect combination for a Western.
Although this tune has become less well known than Morricone's Main Title for The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, it will always be for me the superior piece.
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