![]() I had ten thousand horses groomed by captive Kings.Īnd the west and the east were two heads bowing before me.Īnd the days of my life fixed surely into years. With many one-eyed kings to bear them company.Īnd illusion is a pit for the feet of men. Save up your soul and taste the beautiful wine of Peace.Ībout this table sat many hawk-eyed Kings Listen - O Wayfarer, to the words of my death. The drunkenness of youth has passed like a fever, The Kings of the Earth were dragged behind my chariotĪnd the people of the Earth behind my laws.īut now. The feet of my war horses drummed upon the cities of the world. The drunkenness of youth has passed like a fever. They were driven like straws before the wind of death. ![]() They rested a little in the shadow of my towers "The City of Brass" from Tales of the Arabian Nights Narrated by acclaimed film composer Christopher Young. ![]() ![]() In this highly complex type of musical treatment meaning and story are subordinated to the sound values of the poet's words and the orchestra's voices." In this release The Hollywood Studio Orchestra presents "The City of Brass" in which "the full resources of the symphony orchestra are employed to set the background, to intensify the emotional context, and to amplify your subconscious reaction by tonal color and dynamics. These early works were fundamental to his subsequent development as a composer of dramatic underscore for radio, film, and television. In these works Herrmann first explored the dramatic use of music to support emotional content and meaning beneath dialog. The music was inspired by the poems much in the manner in which a song or opera is created. This term, he said, is "not to be confused with the word Melodrama in which highly colored incidents are presented in dialogue form". Herrmann's word "Melodram" derives from the Greek words for song and drama. The "Melodrams" have gone unheard and unrecorded for 80 years until now. The success of these works led directly to his creation of original scores for the new art of radio drama and ultimately to his unparalleled film scoring career over the next four decades. ![]() Prior to all his film and radio scores Bernard Herrmann wrote a series of orchestral works he called "Melodrams" as accompaniment to poetry readings. ![]()
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