Dances with Wolves

When I was young, roughly 10 years when the movie was made I didn't care much for the soundtrack of Dances with Wolves. Though I thought the music was good I hardly ever listened to it. Only one thing captured my attention, the track 'Journey to Fort Sedgewick', the moment that I listened over and over at. Today, roughly 10 years later you see the film music as a whole different experience, a completely new spectrum. And I look at the cover of this score and feel something I didn't felt 10 years ago, respect for what John Barry composed here. It is hard not to like or enjoy what Dances with Wolves offers. It surely brings those emotions to life you experienced with the movie, the much acclaimed directorial debut of actor Kevin Costner. And when I heard this score I realized that the sentence that symbolizes John Barry also is of use here. 'You spot the music, you compose the music, you orchestrate it, and then you get into that studio and the whole thing takes on its life for the first time.' The music brings the movie to life, it offers that set of emotional depth that the movie lacked without this exceptional and lush performance of color, warmth and beauty.

The main theme of Dances with Wolves 'The John Dunbar Theme' is an emotional footnote of itself, gently and slow it brings that warm feeling of love and respect, yet the more vibrant performance in 'The Buffalo Hunt' is for me the best performance of all on the disc. We have various themes for the characters, 'Two Socks / The Wolf Theme' is a short but utter glorious construction and captures inside the movie a meaning unparalleled with everything I ever witnessed before. To bad its so short. The other theme, 'The Love Theme' is perhaps the weakest but nonetheless sounds stunning. The various landscape and journey performances, 'Journey to Fort Sedgewick' and 'Journey to the Buffalo Killing Ground' are majestic parades that blossom when accompanied with visuals and bloom when heard on disc. There is also the part of more serious music, 'The Death of Timmons' sounds threatening and 'Pawnee Attack' brings a powerful percussive moment of music. The last track brings the best presentation of John Barry into 8 minutes of pure brilliance.

In a way John Barry isn't my most favorable composer, he isn't the one that adds that spark that makes his scores so interesting to listen to and Dances with Wolves isn't also a score I listen too much. But the pure film magic that is trapped inside the 53 minute running disc becomes a brilliant experience when you start to hear the first seconds of the score, and this all the way to the end. I was also so surprised how quickly this score passed. Barry's themes really pick you into the world of majesty and awe, a world of color and beauty, warmth it glows and perfection it brings. There will not be many persons that simply can not appreciate this type of music and if you haven't you at least will find it perfect for the movie. Barry perhaps composes all his epic romantic soundtracks with this undeniable Barry sound, but don't deny the effect. Sometimes your heart simply needs it, to bring that colorful smile on your face, to enjoy it as pure spine tingling movie music from start to finish. Dances with Wolves is one Barry score to have.

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Tracks

Single Disc

1. Main Title / Looks Like A Suicide (3.59)

2. The John Dunbar Theme (2.16) Excellent Track

3. Journey To Fort Sedgewick (3.25) Excellent Track

4. Ride To Fort Hays (2.00)

5. The Death Of Timmons (2.25)

6. Two Socks / The Wolf Theme (1.30) Excellent Track

7. Pawnee Attack (3.49)

8. Kicking Bird's Gift (2.10) Excellent Track

9. Journey To The Buffalo Killing Ground (3.43) Excellent Track

10. The Buffalo Hunt (2.42) Excellent Track

11. Stands With A Fist Remembers (2.08)

12. The Love Theme (3.46)

13. The John Dunbar Theme (2.04)

14. Two Socks At Play (1.59) Excellent Track

15. The Death Of Cisco (2.14)

16. Rescue Of Dances With Wolves (2.09)

17. The Loss Of The Journal / The Return To Winter Camp (2.09)

18. Farewell / End Title (8.46) Excellent Track

Total Length: 53.25

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