I "discovered" film music one day when I came home to a CD that my son was playing--it was the soundtrack for "Legends of the Fall." The composer was James Horner who died a few years back in an unfortunate accident.
Anyway, I branched out from there and eventually had "The Good The Bad and The Ugly" playing as a ringtone on my cell phone.
There was a small group of classically trained composers that emigrated out of Europe to safety in America during Hitler and Mussolini times. They settled in Hollywood and wrote many film scores to earn a living. I believe that Ennio Morricone may have been one of this group of composers.
Final tidbit of info: film music is actually its own musical genre. Rather than being written as a symphony with different movements, it is written by giving the main characters their own melody. As the character appears on the screen, you will hear their particular melody and the different melodies of the other characters blend together and separate. I consider the music in films to tell the story.
The best example that I can give is the movie "Legends of the Fall." Many of the scenes are wordless and the music says it all.
But I digress. . . .Ennio Morricone was an amazing talent. May he RIP.
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