David Shire, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three - 30m 59s

Tracks & Durations

1. Main Title	2:19
2. The Taking	3:12
3. Dolowitz Gets Killed	2:24
4. Blue and Green Talk	2:04
5. Money Montage	3:14
6. The Money Express	4:34
7. The Money Bag	1:46
8. The Pelham's-Moving-Again Blues	3:14
9. Renewing Disguises	3:04
10. Mini-Manhunt	1:56
11. End Title	3:04

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Review

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is a superb urban thriller: four men, dressed alike in trenchcoats and calling each other Mr. Blue, Mr. Green, etc., take a subway car hostage and demand $1 million in ransom. Walter Matthau stars as the transit cop assigned to the case; Robert Shaw is the leader of the terrorists. It's a brilliant '70s hostage movie with biting New York humor. For the score, David Shire came up with a stroke of genius. He wanted to do some kind of funk/jazz/big band, but wanted a way of making it dissonant and powerful -- not too light, but not too random. So for his melodic materials he utilized the 12-tone method of composition, a technique devised by Arnold Schoenberg in the early 20th century in which you make a theme by using all 12 pitches in a specific order, and then create other themes by playing that "row" backwards, upside-down, backwards and upside-down, or transposed. Shire ended up with a monster two-note bass line with these 12-tone themes running on top. For our CD, the first-ever release of this music, we have utilized the complete score, including around 15 minutes of music not included in the film. The 12-page booklet includes movie stills, composer photos, and track-by-track notes by Doug Adams.

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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

Tracks: 20 (+9 tracks), Disk length: 32m 56s (+1m 57s)

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