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Original Soundtrack Recording: Once Upon A Time In The West,Ennio Morricone

- Original Soundtrack Recording: Once Upon A Time In The West
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Ennio Morricone
Released 1972

Once Upon A Time In The West: A Dimly Lit Room
05:09
877 plays

Once Upon A Time In The West: The First Tavern
01:40
704 plays

Once Upon A Time In The West: The Second Tavern
01:33
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- 1
- Once Upon A Time In The West: Once Upon A Time In The West
- 03:45
- 2,945 plays

- 2
- Once Upon A Time In The West: As A Judgment
- 03:08
- 1,164 plays

- 3
- Once Upon A Time In The West: Farewell To Cheyenne
- 02:39
- 1,182 plays

- 4
- Once Upon A Time In The West: The Transgression
- 04:42
- 666 plays

- 5
- Once Upon A Time In The West: The First Tavern
- 01:40
- 704 plays

- 6
- Once Upon A Time In The West: The Second Tavern
- 01:33
- 692 plays

- 7
- Once Upon A Time In The West: Man With A Harmonica
- 03:30
- 1,752 plays

- 8
- Once Upon A Time In The West: A Dimly Lit Room
- 05:09
- 877 plays

- 9
- Once Upon A Time In The West: Bad Orchestra
- 02:25
- 543 plays

- 10
- Once Upon A Time In The West: The Man
- 01:03
- 681 plays

- 11
- Once Upon A Time In The West: Jill's America
- 02:48
- 667 plays

- 12
- Once Upon A Time In The West: Death Rattle
- 01:45
- 647 plays

- 13
- Once Upon A Time In The West: Finale
- 04:09
- 1,546 plays

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album review

After deconstructing the classic American Western by way of The Good, the Bad & the Ugly and A Fistful of Dollars, director Sergio Leone distilled his intentions with 1968's Once Upon a Time in the West, arguably a milestone for both Leone and his musical cohort, Ennio Morricone. For his part, Morricone framed Leone's meditative camera work and mythic narrative with a mix of hauntingly spacious pieces and reconfigured snatches of old-timey tunes. Just within the stretch of the first four pieces here, Morricone evokes the endless expanse of the West with a Copland-esque aria (the main title theme), weaves some twisted grit into the showdown theme with loads of guitar fuzz ("As a Judgment"), ingeniously combines whistling and a clippity-clop rhythm for a respite piece ("Farewell to Cheyenne"), and conjures the surreal end of the cowboy mythos via a wonderfully disjointed serial-style number ("The Transgression"). And whether sounding upbeat or stark, Morricone informs it all with the dry and windswept vacancy of the West. Beautiful and stunning. ~ Stephen Cook, All Music Guide