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• Keir Dullea

Release date:	29.10.1996
Bitrate:	~320 kbps
Length:	78:48 (13 tracks)
Size:	181.12 MB

Year:	1968
Country:	Great Britain
Genre:
IMDB:	62622

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#	VA — 2001: A Space Odyssey	Length	preview	Bitrate	Size
1.	Overture: Atmospheres Gyorgy Ligeti (Sudwestfunk Orchestra & Ernest Bour)	2:51	need Flash	320	6.55
2.	Main Title: Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra) Richard Strauss (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra & Herbert Von Karajan)	1:43	need Flash	320	3.94
3.	Requiem for Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Two Mixed Choirs & Orchestra Gyorgy Ligeti (Bavarian Radio Orchestra & Francis Travis)	6:33	need Flash	320	15.01
4.	The Blue Danube (Excerpt) Johann Strauss (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra & Herbert Von Karajan)	5:44	need Flash	320	13.12
5.	Lux Aeterna Gyorgy Ligeti (Stuttgart Schola Cantorum & Clytus Gottwold)	2:56	need Flash	320	6.72
6.	Gayane Ballet Suite (Adagio) Aram Khachaturian (Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra & Gennadi Rezhdestvensky)	5:17	need Flash	320	12.10
7.	Jupiter and Beyond Gyorgy Ligeti (Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Sudwestfunk Orchestra & Internationale Musikinstitut Darmstardt)	15:16	need Flash	320	34.93
8.	Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra) Richard Strauss (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra & Herbert Von Karajan)	1:43	need Flash	320	3.96
9.	The Blue Danube (Reprise) Johann Strauss (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra & Herbert Von Karajan)	8:21	need Flash	320	19.11
10.	Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra) Richard Strauss (Sudwestfunk Orchestra & Ernest Bour)	1:43	need Flash	320	3.93
11.	Lux Aeterna Gyorgy Ligeti (Stuttgart Schola Cantorum & Clytus Gottwold)	6:02	need Flash	320	13.83
12.	Adventures (Unaltered) Gyorgy Ligeti (Internationale Musikinstitut Darmstardt)	10:58	need Flash	320	25.10
13.	HAL 9000 Dialog Montage	9:41	need Flash	320	22.17
78:48	181.12

2001 A Space Odyssey Soundtrack Download Free

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'2001' is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past, someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on Earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well). Evolution then enabled humankind to reach the moon's surface, where yet another monolith is found, one that signals the monolith placers that humankind has evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and human (Bowman) to reach the monolith placers. The winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be.

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During the production of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick commissioned well-known film score composer Alex North to do the score for the film. North had previously done scores for A Streetcar Named Desire, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and later received an honorary Oscar for his lifetime of work. As production progressed, Kubrick began to feel that the temporary music he used to edit the film was more appropriate. From an interview with Kubrick by Michel Ciment:

However good our best film composers may be, they are not a Beethoven, a Mozart or a Brahms. Why use music which is less good when there is such a multitude of great orchestral music available from the past and from our own time? When you’re editing a film, it’s very helpful to be able to try out different pieces of music to see how they work with the scene. This is not at all an uncommon practice. Well, with a little more care and thought, these temporary music tracks can become the final score. When I had completed the editing of 2001: A Space Odyssey, I had laid in temporary music tracks for almost all of the music which was eventually used in the film. Then, in the normal way, I engaged the services of a distinguished film composer to write the score. Although he and I went over the picture very carefully, and he listened to these temporary tracks (Strauss, Ligeti, Khatchaturian) and agreed that they worked fine and would serve as a guide to the musical objectives of each sequence he, nevertheless, wrote and recorded a score which could not have been more alien to the music we had listened to, and much more serious than that, a score which, in my opinion, was completely inadequate for the film.

And so the temporary music became the iconic score we know today. For comparison, the embedded video shows how North’s original score would have sounded over the opening credits and initial scene.

Selections from North’s original score were later released publicly. Here’s a 38-minute album on Spotify:

Kubrick was absolutely right to ditch North’s score…it’s perfectly fine music but totally wrong for the movie, not to mention it sounds totally dated today. The classical score gives the film a timeless quality, adding to the film’s appeal and reputation more than 45 years later. (via @UnlikelyWorlds)

Update: Two additional facets to this story. North first learned that Kubrick ditched his score at the NYC premiere of the film; he was reportedly (and understandably) “devastated”. And even when Kubrick was artistically satisfied with the music he chose, negotiations to procure the rights weren’t necessarily smooth.

2) Kubrick’s associates did obtain licenses from Ligeti’s publishers and from record and radio companies, although they were not forthcoming about the pivotal role assigned to the music in the film; 3) Ligeti learned about the use of his music not from his publishers but from members of the Bavarian Radio Chorus; 4) he attended a showing of the film with stopwatch in hand, furiously scribbling down timings — thirty-two minutes in all;

Keir Dullea

Kubrick was undoubtably of the “shoot first, ask questions later” school of negotiation. (via @timrosenberg)