Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2021 June 11 • Friday

In addition to Neumation's recent book of Bernard Herrmann's score for The Day the Earth Stood Still, there is yet another, massive, definitive printing of a major soundtrack work for a historic sci-fi movie.

Omni Music Publishing has added to their already considerable catalog of film scores with a full score book of Jerry Goldsmith's music for Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Every once in a while I revisit Star Trek: The Motion Picture to confirm that it isn't a good movie. It isn't. But it is an interesting one and in some ways its failure is commendable while the successes of other movies simply demonstrate a lack of imagination, a hedging of bets, if you will.

But when it comes to music, Star Trek: The Motion Picture has one of the greatest scores of all time, composed by one of the unassailable champions of the form.

We love Jerry Goldsmith here and we've listened to this score, with and without the movie, a lot.

It's beyond thrilling to be able to read along now, to see the notations for blaster beam, among other instruments, to see altered and unused cues in their written form and to have the benefit of Omni's light analysis of the various themes and motifs.

Do me a favor and go buy this, even if you have no interest at all. I just want to encourage this kind of activity as much as possible.