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DeutschSunset Boulevard (soundtrack)
| Sunset Boulevard: Original Motion Picture Score | |
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| Soundtrack album by | |
| Released | November 19, 2002 |
| Label | Varèse Sarabande |
The soundtrack to the film Sunset Boulevard (1950) was composed by Franz Waxman.
In 2005, Franz Waxman's score was named #16 of the top 25 film scores in the American Film Institute's "100 Years of Film Scores" list.[1]
It was released on CD in 2002, an edition that was re-recorded by Joel McNeely and the Scottish Symphony Orchestra.[2] The actual surviving parts of the original score were released in 2010 on Counterpoint.[3]
Track listing
[edit]| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Sunset Boulevard Prelude" | 3:51 |
| 2. | "Paramount Studio" | 0:55 |
| 3. | "Chase and Mansion" | 3:42 |
| 4. | "Norma Desmond" | 2:18 |
| 5. | "An Aging Actress" | 0:54 |
| 6. | "Reading the Script" | 2:34 |
| 7. | "The Strange Garden" | 1:56 |
| 8. | "Norma's Gallery" | 1:24 |
| 9. | "The Waxworks and the Bridge Game" | 1:44 |
| 10. | "Afternoon Outings" | 1:00 |
| 11. | "Sacrifice of Self-Respect" | 4:07 |
| 12. | "The Old Bathing Beauty" | 2:29 |
| 13. | "Parading to Paramount" | 0:55 |
| 14. | "Old Friends" | 1:26 |
| 15. | "DeMille's Companion" | 0:42 |
| 16. | "Norma's Suspicions" | 3:55 |
| 17. | "A New Interest and the Studio Stroll" | 5:08 |
| 18. | "Her First Husband" | 2:56 |
| 19. | "The Showdown" | 4:14 |
| 20. | "Farewell" | 1:56 |
| 21. | "Joe Walks Out" | 5:22 |
| 22. | "The Corpse" | 1:11 |
| 23. | "The Comeback" | 4:24 |
| 24. | "Sunset Boulevard Cast" | 0:31 |
| 25. | "Prelude and Conversing Corpses" | 9:01 |
| Total length: | 69:41 | |
References
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- ^ "AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores", AFI. Retrieved 19 November 2011.
- ^ "Soundtrack details: Sunset Blvd". SoundtrackCollector. Retrieved 2010-03-17.
- ^ "Sunset BLVD".
