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The Terminator (soundtrack)
''The Terminator: Original Soundtrack'' is a soundtrack album by Brad Fiedel, composed and performed on synthesizer for the 1984 film ''The Terminator''. Fiedel described the film's music as being about "a mechanical man and his heartbeat". Almost all the music in the film was performed live.Keegan, 2009. p.36 ''The Terminator'' theme is played over the opening credits and during certain scenes at varying tempos, including a piano version during the love scene and a slowed-down version when Reese dies.Hayward, 2004. p.168 It has been described as having a "deceptively simple melody" line and "haunting synthesizer music". It is in a time signature of , which came about as Fiedel experimented with the rhythm track on his music equipment, a Prophet-10 and an Oberheim. Originally intending the meter to be something simpler like , his finger was rushing when he activated the loop; however, Fiedel found that he liked the "herky-jerky" "propulsiveness" of and decided to keep it, not eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Gui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
