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Period Films Inspire Scores with Unusual Instruments, Surprising Sounds
How this year's Oscar contending scores are filled with unusual instruments and surprising sounds
To these he added both male and female vocal soloists—including one from Australia and another from Ethiopia—for various colors; Lisa Gerrard, who sang on Hans Zimmer’s original “Gladiator” score, can be heard late in the film. At the end of a recent European tour, he recorded members of his band to play “horrible, dissonant, nasty notes” and then layered them into what sounds like a large string section. But because “The Piano Lesson” also incorporates supernatural elements, he added a small women’s choir, “voices from the past” representing the family ancestors who are so important to Berniece (Danielle Deadwyler).
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