Music from Macbeth explained

Music from Macbeth
Type:film
Artist:Third Ear Band
Cover:Music from Macbeth.jpg
Released:1972
Recorded:1971
Studio:Air Studios, London
Length:43:42
Label:Harvest Records (original release)
BGO Records (1990 reissue)
Blueprint Records (reissue)
Producer:Andrew King, Third Ear Band
Prev Title:Abelard and Heloise
Prev Year:1970
Next Title:Prophecies
Next Year:1972

Music from Macbeth is a 1972 album by the Third Ear Band. It consists of the soundtrack from Roman Polanski's 1971 film Macbeth, an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth.

Composition

The band composed original music for the film, by adding electronic music to hand drums, woodwinds and strings.[1] Elements of music in India and the Middle East and jazz were also incorporated into the score.[2]

While the score has some Middle Ages influence, this is not found in the scenes where Duncan is assassinated and Macbeth is killed. Polanski and the band used aleatoric music for these scenes, to communicate chaos.[1]

Track listing

  1. "Overture"  - 4:20
  2. "The Beach"  - 1:54
  3. "Lady Macbeth"  - 1:47
  4. "Inverness: Macbeth's Return/The Preparation/Fanfare/Duncan's Arrival"  - 5:00
  5. "The Banquet"  - 1:21
  6. "Dagger and Death"  - 2:49
  7. "At the Well/The Princes's Escape/Coronation/Come Sealing Night"  - 3:03
  8. "Court Dance"  - 2:28
  9. "Fleance"  - 4:02
  10. "Grooms' Dance"  - 4:21
  11. "Bear Baiting"  - 1:10
  12. "Ambush/Banquo's Ghost"  - 2:27
  13. "Going to Bed/Blind Man's Buff/Requiescant/Sere and Yellow Leaf"  - 3:04
  14. "The Cauldron"  - 2:39
  15. "Prophesies"  - 1:53
  16. "Wicca Way"  - 1:24

(All compositions by Bridges, Sweeney, Minns, and Buckmaster.)

Personnel

The album also features vocals by a 12-year-old Keith Chegwin.

The cover was originally painted by Roger Dean.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Williams, Deanne . Mick Jagger Macbeth . 57 . Shakespeare Survey: Macbeth and Its Afterlife: An Annual Survey of Shakespeare Studies and Production . Cambridge University Press . 2008 . 152.
  2. Book: Sandford, Christopher . Polanski . Random House . 2007 . 222.
  3. https://www.discogs.com/release/1064197-Third-Ear-Band-Music-From-Macbeth

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