''Changeling'' is a soundtrack album released in 2008 based on the film of the same name. In common with all his films since ''
Mystic River'' (2003),
Clint Eastwood
Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor and film director. After achieving success in the Western TV series '' Rawhide'', he rose to international fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone's "''Doll ...
composed the music to the 2008 film ''
Changeling'' himself. The score is
jazz- and
bebop-influenced, and mainly low-key, featuring lilting guitars and strings. The addition of
brass instrument
A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips. Brass instruments are also called labrosones or labrophones, from Latin a ...
s has its roots in film noir and plays to the film's setting in a city controlled by corrupt police. The theme shifts from piano to a full orchestra, and as the story develops the strings become more imposing, with increasing numbers of
sustains and
rises. Voices reminiscent of those in a horror film score are introduced during the film's flashback scenes to the child murders.
Eastwood's bassist son,
Kyle
Kyle or Kyles may refer to:
Places
Canada
* Kyle, Saskatchewan, Canada
Ireland
* Kyle, County Laois
* Kyle, County Wexford
Scotland
* Kyle, Ayrshire, area of Scotland which stretched across parts of modern-day East Ayrshire and South Ayrshir ...
, played on the soundtrack. The score was released on CD in North America on November 4, 2008 through record label
Varèse Sarabande.
Track listing
References
2008 soundtrack albums
Crime film soundtracks
Drama film soundtracks
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