Guess the Score IX - Revenge of the Waltz Game

Yes, time for a little more dancing. The first time round we toured some of the highlight waltzes written for original scores.

Now, Revenge of the Waltz

Get the clips from here:
www.maintitles.net/music/gts/michael/wa … stions.zip

Rules:
1. One point each for composer and title of score. Five points for the bonus track being identified. (Playing for a total of 55 points.)
2. Answers will be revealed a week from now.

Hints:
1. There's a few this time with 'waltz' with the track title.
2. The clips are 'meant' to be in chronological order. The complicating factor are those years where more than 1 title featured (there are SIX such years). I meant to put them in alphabetical order for those years, but I see now that I forgot to do this, so that's a slight complicating factor. Also, one title was hard to pin to one year, because TV seasons straddle two years usually.
3. There is a composer named after an animal in this bunch.

Specific hints... (the clips are in the zip folder above, these are just clues)

Clip 1 - What would a waltz game be without a bit of dark romance from this composer?

Clip 2 - Not terribly characteristic of the rest of the score it comes from, but the main theme (quite a famous one) appears here for solo violin.

Clip 3 - The film title is a question. The composer is from a country with a capital city whose name is featured in the title.

Clip 4 - 'Chopin meets jazz' is the often-given description of this film's score concept. It's an ingenious score, but a very short one.

Clip 5 - This composer is known more for his classical work than his film music. This comes from a re-recording I reviewed a couple of years back. The film featured an actor no-one here would know. Released on SA-CD.

Clip 6 - Not technically a waltz, but I had to make it to 25 clips, and I just love this theme. (Hey, we can all do with a break.) The director had just made his most acclaimed American film, and returned to Europe to make one of the most unsettling films of the 70s. The acclaimed composer of his previous film did not join him (in fact they had not yet met, if the legend is correct), and the composer of this clip worked with the director for the first of three collaborations.

Clip 7 - One of the few gutsy full-brass orchestrated waltzes from this batch. This composer appears elsewhere in this set.

Clip 8 - One of the few foreign language-based Oscar winning directors made this film with a composer who has never won an Oscar he was nominated for.

Clip 9 - The emotional effect this melody should have on you is as big a clue about who wrote this as you should need.

Clip 10 - In a score often remarked on for its 'John Barry' sound, one of my favourite composers gave Strauss Jnr his worth too.

Clip 11 - One of my favourite moments on a film music album is the shift from the operetta to this gentle waltz by ----- ---------. The instrument at the end of the clip is a big clue.

Clip 12 - This is actually a complete track, believe it or not. From one of the greatest replacement scores ever written in 2-3 weeks.

Clip 13 - The film's director relates that he originally hoped to have his composer reference the famous scores of early thriller/horror movie scores like BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN and THE INVISIBLE MAN, but the composer responded with a simple waltz that solved every musical problem the film had.

Clip 14 - A very acclaimed film by a director not known for his gentle, sensical, meditations. The lead actor committed suicide tragically some years later.

Clip 15 - One of the greatest films of the current decade. One of the least favourite scores by this composer's fans, it features foxtrots, scherzoes, and of course, a waltz or two.

Clip 16 - The highpoint of one of the great ongoing foreign language director/composer collaborations in the world today.

Clip 17 - The score was never properly released. The composer is a woman. The director is an Oscar winner. The film is a remake.

Clip 18 - Another of the greatest films of the current decade, featuring one of the most annoying stars of the current decade suppressing his usual on-screen antics.

Clip 19 - Released on CD several years after the appearance of the film, this brief waltz features the score's gorgeous main theme. The music does not sound as tumultuous as the film's title.

Clip 20 - We had another waltz by this composer in Bob's piano game.

Clip 21 - Very famous score - no clues needed!

Clip 22 - Female 'composer'. Norwegian. There can't be too many that fit that combination around. (Sorry Thor!)

Clip 23 - Can't think of a clue.

Clip 24 - This one's pretty famous (Oscar-nominated), so perhaps all I'll say is: 'Mary had a little lamb, fleece as white as snow, and everywhere that Mary went, the lamb it had to go.'

Clip 25 - Mammals love a bath. So much so that this composer thought this gem of a waltz should accompany the sight.

Bonus - Those who do well at guessing the clips in the main game should have an easier time at this one. The piece was not written for the film it appeared in, but appeared more prominently than most of the underscore in that film. It was written by a composer who happens to have an 'esteemed' award for film music named after him.

That should be a bit to chew on for now.