Star Trek III The Search for Spock | ||
 | Composer: James Horner Label: GNP Crescendo Release Date: 1990-11-01 Producer: James Horner Conductor: James Horner Buy this soundtrack:   | 3 Ratings |
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| 01 Prologue and Main Title (6:34) 02 Klingons (5:59) 03 Stealing the Enterprise (8:35) 04 The Mind Meld (2:35) 05 Bird of Prey Decloaks (3:41) 06 Returning to Vulcan (4:54) 07 The Katra Ritual (4:34) 08 End Title (6:18) 09 The Search for Spock (3:43) Total Length: 46:57 | |||||||||||||||||||
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Reviewed by James - Grade: B A score that doesn't break any ground, but succeeds as a sequel score. Where does this animosity for Star Trek 3 come from? Many of the reviews I've read belittle the score because it isn't Wrath of Khan. They say that it is like Khan, if Khan were bad. I don't think that is a fair comparison. Horner's Khan was his breakout score, a terrific achievement that he couldn't hope to surpass. Besides, his job for Star Trek 3 was not to surpass Khan, but to be a continuation of it, musically transitioning us into the sequel. Why does he need to break new ground? The score does re-use many of the themes from Khan, but provides appropriate variations on them. From the music, we know when we're on the Genesis planet, we know when Spock makes his first appearance (not at the end as you would expect, but in an early scene when Sarek and Dr. McCoy mind-meld and re-live Spock's final moments as his theme stirs and hums eerily in the background; the track is appropriately called "Mind Meld"), and we know when the battered and bruised Enterprise returns to Space Dock (in the second half of "Klingons"-the theme is the same as in Khan, but instead of sweeping and confidant, it is relieved and joyful-like the ship itself is thankful it got home in one piece). As far as new music goes, Horner comes up with a new theme for the Klingons, which is appropriately alien and strange. Check out the random horn that keeps playing off key and weak as if its player had asthma. And yet this little motif is totally appropriate for the barbaric Klingon culture. Pity the rest of the Klingon music sounds so much like "Aliens." Yes, I know "Star Trek 3" came first, but it is still distracting! A quick note about Horner's Trek scores in general. Objectively, I look at the Star Trek scores and say yes, the first one is the best. Hands down. Nothing touches "The Motion Picture" for the sheer breadth of its imagination and brilliance. But if you asked me to hum music from Star Trek, in general, I'm going to hum Horner's stuff. Listening to this score brought back all those memories of my childhood - call it blasphemy, but the soundscape that Horner created is Star Trek to me. It's an achievement that he did this with only two scores. If only he had done more. More Movie Soundtracks
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