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| Dazzler and the Beast: Original Motion Moving picture Soundtrack | ||||
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| Soundtrack album past Various Artists | ||||
| Released | October 24, 1991 (1991 Original release) Dec 18, 2001 (2001 Special Edition reissue) September fourteen, 2010 (2010 re-release) February nine, 2018 (2018 Legacy Collection re-release) | |||
| Recorded | 1990–1991 | |||
| Genre | Popular, motion-picture show score | |||
| Length | 50:12 (1991 Original Release) 1:04:43 (2001 Special Edition Reissue) 53:26 (2010 Re-release) | |||
| Label | Walt Disney | |||
| Producer | Howard Ashman Alan Menken Walter Afanasieff Robert Buchanan | |||
| Walt Disney Animation Studios chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Movie Soundtrack | ||||
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Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Flick Soundtrack is the official soundtrack album to the 1991 Disney blithe feature film, Beauty and the Creature. Originally released on October 24, 1991, by Walt Disney Records, the album's first one-half – tracks ii to 9 – more often than not contains the moving-picture show's musical numbers, all of which were written by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman, while its latter one-half – tracks 10 to 14 – features its musical score, composed solely by Menken. While the majority of the album'due south content remains inside the musical theatre genre, its songs take too been influenced by French, classical, pop and Broadway music. Credited to Various Artists, Dazzler and the Beast: Original Move Picture Soundtrack features performances by the pic's primary bandage – Paige O'Hara, Richard White, Jesse Corti, Jerry Orbach, Angela Lansbury, Robby Benson and David Ogden Stiers – in gild of appearance. Additionally, the album features recording artists Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson, who perform a pop rendition of the moving picture'south theme song of the same name, which simultaneously serves as the soundtrack's only single.
Following a hard flow during where Walt Disney Characteristic Animation struggled to release successful animated feature films, the studio, inspired past their most recent blithe success The Little Mermaid (1989), decided to adapt the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" into an animated musical motion picture later on a non-musical adaptation had been attempted that failed to impress Jeffrey Katzenberg, the chairman of Walt Disney Studios. Katzenberg ordered that production on the film exist started over from scratch, hiring songwriting squad Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, who had simply recently completed scoring The Little Mermaid, to write the film's songs. Dion and Bryson were hired to record a popular version of – and draw media attention to – the film's title vocal. Ashman, who was initially hesitant to join the project, died of AIDS before the film'due south completion and the album's release.
Much like movie, the soundtrack was a massive disquisitional success, receiving universal praise and recognition from both picture and music critics. The music featured on the anthology won several awards, including the Gilded World Accolade for Best Original Score, the University Honour for Best Original Score and the Grammy Laurels for Best Instrumental Limerick Written for a Motion Picture or for Television. Its title rail and merely single, "Beauty and the Beast", achieved similar success, winning the Gilded Globe Honor for Best Original Vocal, Academy Award for All-time Original Song and Grammy Awards for both Best Song Written for Visual Media and All-time Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. The soundtrack was too nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
In December 2001, the soundtrack was re-released equally a Special Edition to coincide with the IMAX re-effect of the movie and the upcoming two-disc Platinum Edition. The new release featured the film version of "Transformation", which had been replaced with an early unused version in some early pressings, the newly animated song "Human Once again", the original instrumental intended for the "Transformation" scene, (titled "Decease of the Animate being (Early Version)" here) and demos for "Exist Our Guest" and the championship rail. In September 2010, the soundtrack was re-released again as a Diamond Edition soundtrack, to coincide with the successful Blu-ray and DVD Diamond Edition release of the film, the 1991 version of the soundtrack was released and included Jordin Sparks' cover of "Beauty and the Beast" as a bonus track. The soundtrack was reissued as the fourteenth entry in The Legacy Collection on February ix, 2018 and includes previously unreleased score.
Background [edit]
During the 1970s and 1980s, Walt Disney Feature Animation struggled to release animated characteristic films that accomplished the levels of success of some of the studio'due south earlier productions did. In 1989, Walt Disney Pictures released The Little Mermaid. An blithe musical that features songs written by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken, The Little Mermaid was both a tremendous critical and commercial success. Hoping to release a motion picture that accomplished like success, the studio decided to adapt the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont into an animated film.
Prior to getting professionally involved with Disney, Ashman and Menken had collaborated on a musical adaptation of Little Shop of Horrors and its subsequent musical picture adaptation. Following the studio'south endeavour to adapt the fairy tale into a non-musical animated moving-picture show under the management of Richard Purdum, Disney CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, dissatisfied by the direction in which the film was headed, ordered that it be scrapped and restarted from scratch, this fourth dimension in the form of a musical. In addition to hiring a screenwriter, Katzenberg recruited Ashman and Menken to write the film'southward songs.
Ashman'due south failing health [edit]
Ashman was initially reluctant to agree to work on Beauty and the Animal because he had just recently been diagnosed with AIDS. Additionally, he had already begun writing songs for Aladdin (1992). Ashman's health began deteriorating soon after he completed The Piffling Mermaid. However, he wanted his illness to remain underground and decided to tell few nearly it. Too weak to travel, Ashman requested that he be allowed to work on the film'south songs from his home, causing Menken and the filmmakers to frequently travel from the moving-picture show's studio in Burbank, California to his home in New York in order to collaborate with him. Ashman wrote the bulk of the song's lyrics from his deathbed.[1] [2] [three]
Content and composition [edit]
Lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken intended for the songs in Beauty and the Beast to serve as plot devices and assistance in the telling of its story. According to Menken, the motion picture'south songs grew out of the fact that the film was written to "most ... be as a stage musical."[four] Stylistically, Ashman and Menken drew artistic influence from several musical styles and genres, including French, classical and Broadway music, using them as reference and inspiration when composing the picture show's songs.[5] Menken as well revealed that the picture'south songs and score tend to convey a wide variety of emotions, ranging from poignancy to humor and joy.[6]
While composing the orchestral score that accompanies the motion-picture show's prologue, Menken was inspired by the French suite The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns, referring to it as his ain version of Saint-Saëns' composition.[five] Menken believes that all properly structured musicals should feature an "I Desire" song because they are substantially "nigh a character having a big dream, then [in that location's] some obstacle to that quest."[7] "Belle", the film'southward opening number, is an "orchestra-driven",[8] "snare-tapping" vocal. Accompanied past a full orchestra,[9] it is considered Dazzler and the Beast'due south "I Desire" song.[10] Musically, Menken based "Belle" on the narrative fashion of a traditional operetta, describing it every bit "something to portray Belle in a world that is so protected and safety." Menken described the film'south following musical number, "Gaston", every bit a hilarious "drinking vocal sung by basically a grouping of Neanderthal level guys in praise of a complete lug-head", referring to Ashman'due south choice of song lyrics equally humorous and "natural language in cheek".[5]
When it came time to write the movie'southward large-scale "scintillating"[11] musical number "Exist Our Invitee", Menken originally composed and provided Ashman with a simple melody that was initially intended for temporary utilize just, but for the purpose of allowing his co-author to first developing the song's lyrics. He labeled the crude composition "the dummy". However, Menken eventually gave upwards on his attempt to improve upon the song'southward simple melody, and it ultimately became the version to which Ashman wrote his lyrics.[v] Menken described "Be Our Guest" as a song that is both "uncomplicated and tuneful" that "let[s] the lyric shine."[12]
Originally, Ashman and Menken had written a rather lengthy, large-scale musical number for the film called "Man Again". All the same, when it was deemed "too aggressive", they swiftly wrote and replaced information technology with a smaller-scale musical number entitled "Something There".[5] Co-ordinate to Menken, the film's theme and title vocal, "Dazzler and the Fauna", was "a very hard song to come by" despite its relative simplicity.[11] [12] He revealed that the writing process for "Beauty and the Fauna" was the longest menstruation of fourth dimension that he had ever devoted to i particular song. Written to resemble a lullaby, Ashman and Menken conceived "Dazzler and the Beast" as "a song that could take a life outside the pic." The motion-picture show's final musical number, "The Mob Vocal", was written equally what Menken described equally "a manlike adventure underscore".[five]
Single [edit]
When the pic was released, it garnered three dissever University Award nominations for Best Original Vocal for "Belle", "Exist Our Guest" and "Beauty and the Beast". Producer Don Hahn expressed concern that this would cause confusion amongst audiences and voters, and potentially result in an unfavorable tie. In society to forestall this from happening, the studio fought in favor of the film's title vocal and decided to release a pop rendition of "Dazzler and the Fauna" as a commercial unmarried in an attempt to persuade voters to vote for it.[13] When "Beauty and the Beast" was written, it was composed with the potential of having "half a life outside the movie."[iv] Menken revealed that this was the start time i of his compositions had been rearranged and "turned into ear candy".[14]
Menken recruited musician Robbie Buchanan to arrange[15] [16] "Dazzler and the Animal" into the form of a popular duet[17] while Walter Afanasieff was responsible for producing the rails.[14] [18] [19] Afanasieff as well assisted Buchanan in the arranging of the vocal.[20] Menken was ultimately pleased with Afanasieff's production, explaining, "Walter Afanasieff ... took it and really molded it into something very different than I ever intended and I grew to love it. In a manner, Walter made it his own, and I dearest that."[14] Because Disney could not afford to rent a "big vocalist", they drafted Canadian vocalizer Celine Dion, who was relatively new to the music manufacture at the time, to tape "Beauty and the Creature". Nevertheless, the studio feared that she would not draw much media attending considering of her relative obscurity in the United States, so they hired American singer Peabo Bryson, who was a more well-known recording artist at the time, to perform aslope her.[x] [13] The newly arranged song was released as the album'south lead single on November 25, 1991.[ix]
Reception [edit]
Critical response [edit]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [21] |
| Filmtracks | [22] |
| Sputnikmusic | 4.5/5[23] |
Like to the overwhelmingly positive critical response that the film received, Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Moving-picture show Soundtrack was met with universal acclaim from both music and flick critics, garnering nearly unanimous praise for both its songs and score. Tavia Hobart of AllMusic awarded the soundtrack a nearly perfect overall score of 4.5/v stars, describing Ashman and Menken's compositions as "positively delightful." Withal, she felt that the anthology'due south orchestral score was not as skilful as The Little Mermaid. Filmtracks was very enthusiastic about the album, praising each of its songs and labeling them "remarkably upbeat". The reviewer also praised Ashman and Menken for fugitive "stupid comedic performances to appeal to children." Unlike AllMusic's opinion, the reviewer felt that the score was "a vast improvement" over The Trivial Mermaid's. Sputnikmusik'due south Irving Tan awarded the album a "superb" overall rating of iv.five/5. Praising the film'due south entire collection of songs in a detailed review, Tan accredited the overall appeal of the soundtrack with much the film's success.[viii]
When Beauty and the Animate being was released in Nov 1991, several film and entertainment critics awarded specific praise to its music, both songs and score. Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwarzbaum wrote, "The songs unleash a chemic reaction of happiness."[24]
Just as the moving-picture show made history past condign the first animated movie to receive a All-time Picture Oscar nomination, and then too the soundtrack made history by condign the outset animated motion-picture show soundtrack to receive an Album of the Year Grammy nomination (to appointment, no other animated film soundtrack has been nominated in this category). The pop version of the title rails "Beauty and the Beast" likewise received Grammy nominations for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. In total, the soundtrack won 3 Grammys for Best Pop Duo/Group Functioning (Celine Dion & Peabo Bryson, Best Pop Instrumental Operation (Richard Kauffman), and Best Song Written for a Motion Movie (Alan Menken).[25]
Rail listing [edit]
In the motion-picture show rails 8 comes after rails ix.
All lyrics are written by Howard Ashman; all music is composed by Alan Menken.
| No. | Title | Recording creative person(due south) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Prologue" (Score) (Includes narration past David Ogden Stiers) | 2:26 | |
| 2. | "Belle" ( [A] ) | Paige O'Hara, Richard White, Chorus | 5:09 |
| 3. | "Belle" (Reprise) | O'Hara | one:05 |
| 4. | "Gaston" | Jesse Corti, White, Chorus | three:xl |
| five. | "Gaston" (Reprise) | Corti, White, Chorus | 2:04 |
| six. | "Exist Our Invitee" ( [A] ) | Angela Lansbury, Jerry Orbach, Chorus | 3:44 |
| 7. | "Something There" | Lansbury, Stiers, Orbach, O'Hara, Robby Benson | 2:xix |
| 8. | "The Mob Song" | White, Chorus | iii:30 |
| ix. | "Dazzler and the Animal" ( [B] ) | Lansbury | 2:46 |
| x. | "To the Off-white" (Score) | one:58 | |
| 11. | "West Fly" (Score) | 3:42 | |
| 12. | "The Animate being Lets Belle Go" (Score) | ii:22 | |
| 13. | "Battle on the Tower" (Score) | v:29 | |
| 14. | "Transformation" (Score) | five:47 | |
| 15. | "Beauty and the Beast" (Duet) ( [B] ) | Céline Dion & Peabo Bryson | iv:04 |
| Total length: | 50:12 | ||
| No. | Title | Recording artist(southward) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16. | "Beauty and the Animal" ( [C] ) | Jordin Sparks | 3:14 |
| Full length: | 53:26 | ||
| No. | Title | Recording creative person(south) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| i. | "Prologue" (Score) (Narration past Stiers) | two:26 | |
| 2. | "Belle" | O'Hara, White, Chorus | 5:09 |
| 3. | "Belle" (Reprise) | O'Hara | one:05 |
| iv. | "Gaston" | Corti, White, Chorus | three:40 |
| 5. | "Gaston" (Reprise) | Corti, White, Chorus | 2:04 |
| 6. | "Be Our Guest" | Lansbury, Orbach, Chorus | 3:44 |
| 7. | "Something There" | Lansbury, Stiers, Orbach, O'Hara, Benson | 2:19 |
| 8. | "Homo Again" (Previously Unreleased) ( [D] ) | Lansbury, Stiers, Orbach, Jo Anne Worley, Chorus | iv:54 |
| ix. | "The Mob Song" | White, Chorus | three:30 |
| 10. | "Beauty and the Beast" | Lansbury | ii:46 |
| 11. | "To the Fair" (Score) | 1:58 | |
| 12. | "West Fly" (Score) | three:42 | |
| 13. | "The Animate being Lets Belle Go" (Score) | 2:22 | |
| fourteen. | "Boxing on the Belfry" (Score) | five:29 | |
| 15. | "Transformation" (Score) | 5:47 | |
| 16. | "Be Our Guest" (Demo) (Previously Unreleased) | Ashman | 3:29 |
| 17. | "Beauty and the Beast" (Work Record & Demo) (Previously Unreleased) | Menken & Ashman | three:58 |
| xviii. | "Dazzler and the Brute" | Dion & Bryson | 4:04 |
| 19. | "Death of the Beast" (Score) (Early Version) ( [E] ) | 1:29 | |
| Total length: | one:04:43 | ||
Notes [edit]
- A ^ Nominated for the Academy Honor for Best Original Vocal.
- B ^ Won an Academy Award for All-time Original Song.
- C ^ Produced by Robert Buchanan.
- D ^ New song integrated into the film for the 2001 Special Edition IMAX re-consequence and 2001 DVD release.
- E ^ Integrated into the film's end credits for the 2001 Special Edition IMAX re-issue and 2001 DVD release. On initial pressings of the original release of the soundtrack, this cue replaced the version used in the film up until the moment when the transformation begins. Somewhen the album was re-pressed with the movie version of the cue and has been presented in its proper moving picture version on the 2001 and 2010 reissues.
Charts [edit]
Certifications [edit]
The Legacy Collection release [edit]
Walt Disney Records released a two-disc soundtrack album of Beauty and the Beast every bit part of The Legacy Drove. [xl] Information technology includes the complete score and early on demos.
Meet likewise [edit]
- The Music Behind the Magic
- Beauty and the Creature (2017 soundtrack)
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External links [edit]
- Beauty and the Beast at Discogs (listing of releases)
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Beast_(1991_soundtrack)
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