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Spring Film & TV Music: The Top 100
April 27, 2009
The Godfather | |
Nino Rota's music for "The Godfather" stands on its own yet fuses itself to Francis Ford Coppola's classic film so that each is unimaginable without the other.
Rota's main title, his theme for Marlon Brando's Don Vito Corleone, is so instantly recognizable that an audience could probably identify it simply from the melancholy sound of its first sustained vibrato trumpet note.
It's Rota's "Immigrant" theme that soars to operatic heights as the story deepens and Al Pacino's Michael Corleone finds himself traveling down the same path as his father, and this melody often ties together the movie's disparate plot threads and reinforces the film's epic scope.
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