The Da Vinci Code. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.The Da Vinci da Vinci Surgery A surgical robot for performing certain surgeries–eg, mitral valve repair and laparoscopic procedures–eg, cholecystectomy and gastric ulcer repair. See Laparoscopic surgery, Robotics, Surgical robot. Code. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Music composed by Hans Zimmer. Decca B0006479-02. As I've mentioned before in these pages, I am not a big fan of motion-picture soundtrack albums. I love movies, and I love some movie music, but except for big theme songs most of it has a specific purpose in underlining key passages in a story. To hear bits and pieces of music keyed to various segments of a movie without seeing the visuals they're underpinning can often seem meaningless to me. So it goes with Hans Zimmer's score for "The Da Vinci Code." While the music is often intriguing and weirdly atmospheric, it can easily become tiresome in long stretches. The movie, as you know, is based on Dan Brown's novel about a college professor who unearths an ancient secret covered up by the Catholic Church for two thousand years. The story takes the character through the darkest streets, alleyways, vaults, and cathedrals of Europe, so the music must be dark and mysterious, conjuring up images of mystical doom and gloom doom and gloom n. Gloom and doom. doom  -and-gloom adj. . Zimmer does a good job with his
quasi-liturgical themes, medieval rituals, and the like, the music
plunging us deep into the recesses of Brown's creepy, secret world.
Unfortunately, unless you've seen the movie, the music will
probably all sound the same to you, despite the album having fourteen
separate tracks. In fact, even if you've seen the movie, I doubt
that this disc is anything you'd want to play very often,
especially not straight through. Some of the titles will give the idea:
"Dies Mercurii I Martius," "L'Espirit Des
Gabriel," "Fructus Gravis," "Ad Arcana ar·ca·na n. A plural of arcanum. ," "Daniel's 9th Cipher cipher: see cryptography. (1) The core algorithm used to encrypt data. A cipher transforms regular data (plaintext) into a coded set of data (ciphertext) that is not reversible without a key. ," and, my favorite My Favorite is an independent synthpop band from Long Island, New York. They released two CDs: Love at Absolute Zero and Happiest Days of Our Lives. My Favorite broke up on September 14, 2005, when singer Andrea Vaughn left the band. because it's so famously gloomy a name for a witch-hunt manual, "Malleus Maleficarum The Malleus Maleficarum[2](Latin for "The Hammer of Witches", or "Hexenhammer" in German) is one of the most famous medieval treatises on witches. It was written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, and was first published in Germany in 1487. ." The sound Decca provide for these murky tunes is actually quite good for its kind. Most of it--orchestral, choral, and synthetic--has a nice balance, a reasonably wide spread, and some impressive bass. It is certainly not typical movie music nor typical movie-music sound, but a little of it goes a long way. The disc makes a nice memento me·men·to n. pl. me·men·tos or me·men·toes A reminder of the past; a keepsake. [Middle English, commemoration of the living or the dead in the Canon of the Mass, from Latin of having seen the film, perhaps. |
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