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And they tried a bit to find a theme,
and eventually Morricone recalled
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he'd written an arrangement of the
Woody Guthrie song "Pastures of Plenty"
:19:12
a few years before,
with Fender Stratocaster,
:19:14
with choir, with all these
natural sounds and whipcracks.
:19:18
Leone said,
"Take the vocal track off it, let's hear it."
:19:21
They did, and it is identical
to the main track of Fistful of Dollars.
:19:26
Morricone and Leone wanted
Mexican gypsy peasant music
:19:31
as part of the background to the
musical track, this idea of San Miguel,
:19:36
a village in northern Mexico,
which is a village of death.
:19:39
So they were keen to have
mariachi trumpet, gypsy sounds.
:19:44
Leone particularly
remembered "Deguello",
:19:46
the theme that Dmitri Tiomkin
had written for Rio Bravo,
:19:50
when John Wayne as Sheriff Chance
and Ricky Nelson are holed up in the jail,
:19:54
and they can hear this lament
going on down the street.
:19:58
Ricky Nelson says,
"That was what they played at the Alamo
:20:01
to try and destabilise the defenders, the
Texans who were defending the Alamo."
:20:06
Leone remembered that, said,
"I want a lot of that in the music."
:20:11
"This dirgelike, funereal music.
It'll be perfect. A Mexican dance of death."
:20:16
Later on in the movie,
the "Deguello" would come in full whack.
:20:20
Morricone was a trumpeter
by training, as was his father.
:20:23
So there's a big emphasis
on trumpet in the soundtrack.
:20:32
This part of the score is like some
Renaissance Italian piece of music.
:20:38
It recurs a little bit later on, as well.
:20:44
Very, very strange. Odd juxtaposition.
You're in 19th-century northern Mexico,
:20:49
you get a Renaissance piece
of dance music on the soundtrack.
:20:53
Those were the kind of...
To make the audience sit up.
:20:56
Leone said, "My philosophy
can be summed up with the thought:
:20:59
'I never want the audience to get bored'."