The Big Country
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Product ID: GM1 CP005
By Jerome Moross
Publisher:
Goodmusic
Arranger:
Ling
Series:
Concert Pops
Genre:
Western
Line Up:
Symphony Orchestra
Duration:
4:00
Level: 3
Set & Score
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About this item
The theme from the film "The Big Country" is surely the epitome of "Western" music: you can see the cowboys, the cattle, the arid landscape, the waggons spread out before you! Jerome Moross wrote a large amount of music but nothing that quite matched up to the brilliance of this piece.
Instrumentation
2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in Bb, Alto Saxophone (optional), 2 Bassoons 2 Horns in F, 3 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion (Side drum, Bass drum, Cymbal, Glockenspiel) Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass)
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Composer
Jerome Moross (1913-1983)
Jerome Moross (August 1, 1913 ? July 27, 1983) was an American-born composer for the stage, and a composer, conductor and orchestrator for motion pictures.
He was born in New York City in 1913. He became a talented piano player and composed music for the theater. In the 1940s he began to work in Hollywood, where he would compose music for 16 films from 1948 to 1969.
His best known film score is that for the 1958 movie The Big Country, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Original Music Score. According to Moross, he composed the main title after recalling a walk he took in the flat lands around Albuquerque shortly before he moved to Hollywood in the late 1930s.
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