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"For Your Eyes Only" in Full Score - Book with sheet music of the FYEO score
Yes, yes, I checked the existing music threads, but eventually decided this was cool enough to deserve its own topic.
They're releasing the SHEET MUSIC of FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, straight from the original documents!
https://neumation-music.com/products/bill-conti-for-your-eyes-only-in-full-score
SHEET MUSIC EXCERPTS
I have paired them with the respective music tracks.
Dumping Blofeld
Inside the Monestary:
MORE INFO
This is such a kickass score. I'll probably have to get my filthy hands on this book.
And I sure hope it leads to more Bond scores getting similar treatment.
They're releasing the SHEET MUSIC of FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, straight from the original documents!
https://neumation-music.com/products/bill-conti-for-your-eyes-only-in-full-score
SHEET MUSIC EXCERPTS
I have paired them with the respective music tracks.
Dumping Blofeld
Inside the Monestary:
MORE INFO
BILL CONTI: For Your Eyes Only (in Full Score)
DESCRIPTION
After scoring Moonraker, John Barry was unable to return to the UK to score For Your Eyes Only, the twelfth entry in the EON Productions/United Artists James Bond franchise. Barry recommended Bill Conti, who had recently earned Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Rocky and An Unmarried Woman. Producer Cubby Broccoli and director John Glen wanted For Your Eyes Only to return to the style of the early Ian Fleming 007 stories. The result was more grounded, gritty, and realistic than its predecessors.
Bond is ordered to recover recover a missile command system before Soviet agents, while becoming entangled in a web of deception spun by a Greek businessman and a woman seeking to avenge the murder of her parents.
Conti delivered a disco-influenced score that continued the James Bond musical language created by John Barry in a fresh, new direction. In 1982, Conti received his second Oscar nomination for his work on For Your Eyes Only – Best Music, Original Song category, cementing his place in the pantheon of 007 composers.
Engraved from the original orchestrations by Pete Myers and Bobby Richards.
230 pages. 9 x 12. Paperbound. Printed in the USA
THIS PUBLICATION IS AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE.
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CONTENTS
Foreword (Director: John Glen)
Introduction
Motifs
Table of Contents
Instrumentation
1M1 Gunbarrel Logo
1M2 Theresa's Grave
1M3 Dumping Blofeld
1M4 For Your Eyes Only (Title Song)
2M1 Change of Watch
2M2 Moscow
2M3 Death of the Havelocks
2M4 San Martin
3M1 Stinger
3M2 Gonzalez Takes a Dive
3M3R A Drive in the Country
3M4 Unfinished Business
4M1 Cortina
4M2 Ice Rink Practice
4M3 Ice Rink Waltz
4M4 Saving Melina
5M1 Sleigh Ride
5M2 Ski Chase I
5M2 Ski Chase II
6M1 Ski Chase III
6M2 Ferrara Killed
6M5 On the Terrace
7M5 Sexy Record
7M6 Lisl Klled
8M1 Dove to Warehouse
8M2 No Head for Heights
9M1 Underwater Meeting
9M3 Submarine
9M4 Divers Approach
10M1 Recovering the ATAC
10M2 Sub vs. Sub
11M1 Underwater Escape
11M3 St. Cyril's
11M4 The Climb
12M1 Inside the Monestery
12M2 Raid on St. Cyril's
13M1 PM Gets the Bird
This is such a kickass score. I'll probably have to get my filthy hands on this book.
And I sure hope it leads to more Bond scores getting similar treatment.
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It's pretty cool that they're releasing the sheet music for this particular score, because it's quite the busy score in certain parts. Definitely much busier than the John Barry scores. In that sense, it would benefit a lot from a book. I'm especially looking forward to the Ski...Shoot...Jump sheet music.
https://neumation-music.com/products/bill-conti-for-your-eyes-only-in-full-score
Note : the best thing I've noticed for now is that the gunbarrel cowbell is not notated "cowbell". It's "BIG COWBELL". Love it.
The dissonant chord heard when Bond falls off the cliff is not mentionned in the cue list (see below) and I was wondering why (other very short tracks are here, such as "Stinger", when Bond is caught by Gonzales' Henchmen).
Well, it's because it's actually the final chord from "Divers Approach", an unreleased track. Only a few seconds of "Divers Approach" can actually be heard in the movie. The final chord, which is not heard in the underwater scene, has been repurposed for Bond's fall.
One mystery solved ;)
1M1 Gunbarrel Logo
1M2 Theresa's Grave
1M3 Dumping Blofeld
1M4 For Your Eyes Only (Title Song)
2M1 Change of Watch
2M2 Moscow
2M3 Death of the Havelocks
2M4 San Martin
3M1 Stinger
3M2 Gonzalez Takes a Dive
3M3R A Drive in the Country
3M4 Unfinished Business
4M1 Cortina
4M2 Ice Rink Practice
4M3 Ice Rink Waltz
4M4 Saving Melina
5M1 Sleigh Ride
5M2 Ski Chase I
5M2 Ski Chase II
6M1 Ski Chase III
6M2 Ferrara Killed
6M5 On the Terrace
7M5 Sexy Record
7M6 Lisl Klled
8M1 Dove to Warehouse
8M2 No Head for Heights
9M1 Underwater Meeting
9M3 Submarine
9M4 Divers Approach
10M1 Recovering the ATAC
10M2 Sub vs. Sub
11M1 Underwater Escape
11M3 St. Cyril's
11M4 The Climb
??? Bond Falls ???
12M1 Inside the Monestery
12M2 Raid on St. Cyril's
13M1 PM Gets the Bird
More cowbell?
Once again, very welcome piece of information. Thank you! @Bond_Scores might be particularly interested in it.
I'm sorely tempted to buy the score, but may have to wait for it to go down in price a bit!
Whilst we're talking about FYEO, you may be interested in this podcast with Bill Conti. He talks briefly about how he ended up scoring the movie:
https://whatsthescore1.podbean.com/e/guest-oscar-winning-composer-bill-conti/
Listen from 58.44.
Thanks for sharing.
They confirmed that it was indeed composed by Conti.
These pieces are even listed in the cue sheet, as follow :
M.26 | Casino Source | Bill Conti | U.A. Music | 1:46
M.27 | Casino Source | Bill Conti | U.A. Music | 2:10
M.28 | Casino Source | Bill Conti | U.A. Music | 1:31
Unfortunatly no score was available so it was not included in the book.
I wonder why it was "lost", since other source music score (Ice Rink Waltz) was available :(
Very cool, thanks for sharing. I too wonder about that. Reminds me of Octopussy 2024 in which they didn't include the jungle stinger (and the casino music assuming it was written for the film). Or Diamonds Are Forever 2003, when they didn't include the stinger heard after "I was walking out my rat and I seem to have lost my way", and later stated it wasn't on the tapes they found. I suppose the production process is so intense and against-the-clock that sometimes materials are spread out in different places, whether tapes or sheet music.
@vzok you're welcome!
I've been musing over this cue assemblage for a while thinking on how it would complete with the other known pieces in the film ,and although i'll certainly welcome bondscores more dilligent effort in complete scores thread,here's my thoughts so far...
2m5 make it last all night (0.40 to 1.21)film edit,4m1a? meeting with kristatos (0.43)6m3 zorba takes a holiday (edit,greek source #1),6m4 (unidentified greek source #2),7m1 casino source #1,7m2 casino source #2,7m3 casino source #3 (7m4? that,s a mystery perhaps a further casino piece that wasn't used in the film yet to see the light of day ?),(9m2 should be submarine i feel and 9m3 dining alone,11m2 (another unidentified greek source #3) ,11m5 bond falls(that repurposed chord) and either as continuing on from the chord as part of bond falls or separate as 11m6 "in the basket".
what do you think guys.
track 13 part 3 ,50 seconds to 1 minute 46 (0.56) ,possible alternate unused run them down???
track 13 part 5, 2.32 to 2.54 (0.22), possible alternate section for maybe saving melina ???
track 18 pt 1, 0.00 to 0.15 ,these first 15 seconds sound as if they are the opening to dove to wharehouse, though if so what happened to the rest of the cue???.
As I mentioned elsewhere : "Flowers for Teresa" is an interesting case. The book mentions it a being an alternate take of "Take them down", and it's true that they share a lot of similarities. But "Flowers for Teresa" matches perfectly the scene where Bond's helicopter takes off. There are a lot of synchronisation points. You even hear the bells for the priest. So this looks a lot like an unused cue, rather than an alternate take.
This is the orignal ending of "Sinking the St. Georges", left out of the movie to leave some room for sound effects of the ship sinking. The sheet music proves that (and it perfectly fits the movie timing once again).
You're right. It's crazy to have included 15 seconds of this track but not the rest (unless there was some kind of technical issue about it). This is such a frustrating release.
I agree with you on most points!
"Meeting with Kristatos" (Bond Meets Kristatos on CD) is 4M2 + 4M3 (ice rink source music).
You're absolutely right about Submarine, it must be a mistake from the website, because the book says :
9M1 Underwater Meeting
9M2 Submarine
9M3 Inside the Wreck (Dining Alone on CD)
9M4 Divers Approach
Well spotted ;)
I don't know if the "Bond's fall" dissonant chord should count as 11m5, because it's seems to have been a sound editing decision. It was meant to be part of "9M4 Divers Approach". But I don't know how these thing work exactly.
Finally, what you call "In the Basket" is in fact included in "12M1 Inside the Monastery" (sheet music).
as for "bond falls" i'm not saying that my cue numbering is correct , just a way to place the chord in its film used chronology.
one thing continues to puzzle, the two ice rink cues 4m2 and 4m3 i have no problem with ice rink WALTZ 4m3 having a separate cue assigning, but i find 4m2 odd in that it sounds to me like two distinctly different pieces set together that should have merited ?m? distinction or made a one cue medley of three source pieces combining the two 4m2 and 3.
I completely agree and that's what I thought before reading the score.
But the two parts are actually "blended" together : one single bar contains the last note of the first part and the first notes of the second part. There is a change of tempo (from 74 to 110) indicated, but the instruments playing are the same (they differ a bit on Ice Rink Waltz). I feel like the key doesn't change either. So Conti really notated this as a single cue, though I agree it does not sound like that ;)