『CHRISTOPHER YOUNG: THE SHORTS』には、『ベトナム・ウォー・ストーリー』のようなテレビシリーズや、『THE MINSTREL'S SONG』のソングや『THE TOWER』のような短編学生映画のために作曲された、極めて多様な3つのスコアからなる組曲が収録されています。3つすべてが彼の独特なスタイルを反映していますが、それぞれが彼のスタイルの異なる側面を強調しています。電子音楽と日本の伝統楽器の融合、ポリリズム構造の発展、色彩豊かな楽器編成と半ば様式化された歴史的パロディへの嗜好、ワルツのようなメロディ素材の解体と変容など、多様な要素が織り交ぜられています。
『ベトナム・ウォー・ストーリー／最後の黙示録』(VIETNAM WAR STORY)は1987年から1988年にHBOで放送されたアンソロジーシリーズで、ベトナム戦争に従軍した米軍退役軍人による短編小説を基に制作されました。ヤングは、このシリーズ全9話のうち2話の音楽を担当しました。『ベトナム・ウォー・ストーリー／最後の黙示録』の音楽は、エレクトロニクスと、日本発祥の幅広いアコースティック楽器を融合させたハイブリッドな作品です。1993年にINTRADAレーベルからコレクションの一部としてリリースされたこの作品は、作曲家が『VIETNAM WAR STORY』に再び取り組み、その作品を再考したものです。
本作、クリストファー・ヤングの短編映画音楽集『CHRISTOPHER YOUNG: THE SHORTS』には、ヤングが『VIETNAM WAR STORY』『THE MINSTREL'S SONG』『THE TOWER』のために作曲した音楽が収録。音楽はデジタル・アウトランドにより新規リマスターされ、ライナーノーツはアンドレア・ブルーノが執筆。各プロジェクトに関する重要な情報が、作曲家の参加のもとで記載されています。
Dragon's Domain Records presents CHRISTOPHER YOUNG: THE SHORTS, featuring music composed by Christopher Young for three short films from his extensive filmography.
A defining trait of composer Christopher Young's early career has been his unwavering engagement with the experimental musical languages of the postwar avant-garde. Few composers brought these idioms into the Hollywood system as boldly or as consistently as he did. As he began to earn recognition as a mainstream composer capable of delivering accomplished and influential large-scale scores, he also looked for opportunities to experiment, which he found in more obscure and independent projects. Many of these smaller projects offered a rare opportunity to explore new facets of his writing, without any pressure from producers, studios, etc.
CHRISTOPHER YOUNG: THE SHORTS includes suites from three such highly diverse scores that were composed either for a television series such as VIETNAM WAR STORY or short student films such as THE MINSTREL'S SONG and THE TOWER. All three showcase his distinctive voice, though each emphasizes a different dimension of his style. From the merging of electronics with acoustic Japanese instruments and the development of polyrhythmic structures, to a taste for colorful instrumentation and semi-stylized historical pastiche, to the dissection and transformation of waltz-like melodic material.
VIETNAM WAR STORY originally aired on HBO between 1987 and 1988 and was an anthology series based on short stories written by U.S. veterans of the Vietnam conflict. Young contributed scores to two of the series' nine episodes. His music for VIETNAM WAR STORY is a hybrid work in which he used electronics along with a wide range of acoustic instruments of Japanese origin. Originally released in 1993 by Intrada Records as part of a collection, the composer has returned to VIETNAM WAR STORY to revisit his work.
THE MINSTREL'S SONG was a graduation short film directed by Chris C. Hopkins, an aspiring filmmaker who would later become a noted prop artist and set designer. The music was composed and recorded by Young during his UCLA years. Also released on the same collection as VIETNAM WAR STORY, his music for THE MINSTREL'S SONG draws it's influences from the Renaissance era, with the music played by a small ensemble.
THE TOWER was a short film marking the directorial debut of music editor E. Gedney Webb and holds a special place in Young's heart. Webb is the composer's nephew and they had collaborated on scores such as THE DARK HALF and DREAM LOVER. The film tells the story of a burned-out forty-year old man who encounters the ghost of a woman imprisoned in the tower of his summer home by Lake Michigan. Released by Intrada in 2002, THE TOWER was initially presented as forty-minute chamber symphony in five movements. Years later, the composer would return to the material and revise it into the current suite, inviting guitarist, songwriter and longtime friend Mark Hanson to provide lyrics for the principal melodic ideas. The orchestration includes string quartet, piano, harp, solo female voice and electronics.
Golden Globe-nominated composer Christopher Young has scored over 100 films, including films such as HELLRAISER, JENNIFER 8, MURDER IN THE FIRST, COPYCAT, SPECIES, THE HURRICANE, SWORDFISH, THE SHIPPING NEWS, THE HURRICANE, THE CORE, THE GRUDGE, THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE, SPIDER-MAN 3, UNTRACEABLE and the forthcoming films, THE UNINVITED and DRAG ME TO HELL. Born in Red Bank, New Jersey, Young graduated from Massachusetts Hampshire College with a BA in music and did post-graduate work at North Texas State University, studying big band writing and classical composition before moving to Los Angeles in 1980. While enrolled at UCLA, he studied with famed film composer David Raksin. In addition to his career as a film composer, he has also taught composition at UCLA.
Dragon's Domain Records presents CHRISTOPHER YOUNG: THE SHORTS, featuring music composed by Christopher Young for VIETNAM WAR STORY, THE MINSTREL'S SONG and THE TOWER. The music has been newly remastered by Digital Outland. The liner notes have been written by Andrea Bruno and provide important information about each project, with the composer's participation.
Dragon's Domainレーベルが贈る『CHRISTOPHER YOUNG: THE SHORTS』は、クリストファー・ヤングが自身の豊富なフィルモグラフィーから選んだ3つの短編映画のために作曲した音楽を収録した作品集。
トラックリスト作曲家クリストファー・ヤングの初期キャリアを特徴付けるのは、戦後アヴァンギャルドの先駆的な音楽言語への揺るぎない取り組みです。彼ほど大胆かつ一貫してこれらの表現手法をハリウッドのシステムに取り入れた作曲家はほとんどいませんでした。主流の作曲家として、完成度が高く影響力のある大規模なスコアを制作する能力を認められるようになると、彼は実験の機会を模索し、無名の独立系プロジェクトで見出しました。これらの小規模なプロジェクトは、プロデューサーやスタジオからの圧力なしに、彼の作曲の新たな側面を探求する稀有な機会を提供しました。
『CHRISTOPHER YOUNG: THE SHORTS』には、『ベトナム・ウォー・ストーリー』のようなテレビシリーズや、『THE MINSTREL'S SONG』のソングや『THE TOWER』のような短編学生映画のために作曲された、極めて多様な3つのスコアからなる組曲が収録されています。3つすべてが彼の独特なスタイルを反映していますが、それぞれが彼のスタイルの異なる側面を強調しています。電子音楽と日本の伝統楽器の融合、ポリリズム構造の発展、色彩豊かな楽器編成と半ば様式化された歴史的パロディへの嗜好、ワルツのようなメロディ素材の解体と変容など、多様な要素が織り交ぜられています。
『ベトナム・ウォー・ストーリー／最後の黙示録』(VIETNAM WAR STORY)は1987年から1988年にHBOで放送されたアンソロジーシリーズで、ベトナム戦争に従軍した米軍退役軍人による短編小説を基に制作されました。ヤングは、このシリーズ全9話のうち2話の音楽を担当しました。『ベトナム・ウォー・ストーリー／最後の黙示録』の音楽は、エレクトロニクスと、日本発祥の幅広いアコースティック楽器を融合させたハイブリッドな作品です。1993年にINTRADAレーベルからコレクションの一部としてリリースされたこの作品は、作曲家が『VIETNAM WAR STORY』に再び取り組み、その作品を再考したものです。
『THE MINSTREL'S SONG』は、後に著名な小道具アーティスト、セットデザイナーとなる、意欲的な映画監督、クリス・C・ホプキンズが監督した卒業制作の短編映画です。音楽は、ヤングが UCLA 在学中に作曲、録音したものです。『ベトナム・ウォー・ストーリー／最後の黙示録』と同じコレクションでリリースされた『THE MINSTREL'S SONG』の音楽は、ルネサンス時代の影響を受けており、小さなアンサンブルによって演奏されています。
『THE TOWER』は、音楽編集者の E. ゲドニー・ウェッブが監督デビューした短編映画で、ヤングにとって特別な意味を持つ作品です。ウェッブは作曲家の甥であり、2人は『ダーク・ハーフ』や『水曜日に抱かれる女』などの楽曲でコラボレーションを行っています。この映画は、ミシガン湖のほとりの別荘の塔に閉じ込められた女性の幽霊に出会った、燃え尽きた 40 歳の男性の話です。2002年にINTRADAからリリースされた『THE TOWER』は、当初5楽章からなる40分間の室内交響曲として発表されました。数年後に作曲家は素材に戻り、現在の組曲に改訂し、ギタリスト兼ソングライターで長年の友人であるマーク・ハンソンに主要なメロディの歌詞を提供してもらいました。編曲には弦楽四重奏、ピアノ、ハープ、ソロの女性声、電子音楽が含まれます。
ゴールデン・グローブ賞にノミネートされた作曲家クリストファー・ヤングは、100本を超える映画音楽を手がけており、その中には『ヘルレイザー』『ジェニファー8』『コピーキャット』『スピーシーズ／種の起源』『ザ・ハリケーン』 『ソードフィッシュ』、『ザ・シッピング・ニュース』、『ザ・ハリケーン』、『ザ・コア』、『エミリー・ローズ』、『スパイダーマン3』、『ブラックサイト』、『スペル』、『オファリング -悪魔の生贄-』などがあります。ニュージャージー州レッドバンクで生まれたヤングは、マサチューセッツ州ハンプシャー大学で音楽学士号を取得し、ノーステキサス州立大学で大学院課程を修了。ビッグバンド作曲とクラシック作曲を学び、1980年にロサンゼルスに移住しました。UCLA在学中、著名な映画作曲家デビッド・ラスキンに師事しました。映画作曲家としてのキャリアに加え、UCLAで作曲を教えてきました。
本作、クリストファー・ヤングの短編映画音楽集『CHRISTOPHER YOUNG: THE SHORTS』には、ヤングが『VIETNAM WAR STORY』『THE MINSTREL'S SONG』『THE TOWER』のために作曲した音楽が収録。音楽はデジタル・アウトランドにより新規リマスターされ、ライナーノーツはアンドレア・ブルーノが執筆。各プロジェクトに関する重要な情報が、作曲家の参加のもとで記載されています。
Dragon's Domain Records presents CHRISTOPHER YOUNG: THE SHORTS, featuring music composed by Christopher Young for three short films from his extensive filmography.
A defining trait of composer Christopher Young's early career has been his unwavering engagement with the experimental musical languages of the postwar avant-garde. Few composers brought these idioms into the Hollywood system as boldly or as consistently as he did. As he began to earn recognition as a mainstream composer capable of delivering accomplished and influential large-scale scores, he also looked for opportunities to experiment, which he found in more obscure and independent projects. Many of these smaller projects offered a rare opportunity to explore new facets of his writing, without any pressure from producers, studios, etc.
CHRISTOPHER YOUNG: THE SHORTS includes suites from three such highly diverse scores that were composed either for a television series such as VIETNAM WAR STORY or short student films such as THE MINSTREL'S SONG and THE TOWER. All three showcase his distinctive voice, though each emphasizes a different dimension of his style. From the merging of electronics with acoustic Japanese instruments and the development of polyrhythmic structures, to a taste for colorful instrumentation and semi-stylized historical pastiche, to the dissection and transformation of waltz-like melodic material.
VIETNAM WAR STORY originally aired on HBO between 1987 and 1988 and was an anthology series based on short stories written by U.S. veterans of the Vietnam conflict. Young contributed scores to two of the series' nine episodes. His music for VIETNAM WAR STORY is a hybrid work in which he used electronics along with a wide range of acoustic instruments of Japanese origin. Originally released in 1993 by Intrada Records as part of a collection, the composer has returned to VIETNAM WAR STORY to revisit his work.
THE MINSTREL'S SONG was a graduation short film directed by Chris C. Hopkins, an aspiring filmmaker who would later become a noted prop artist and set designer. The music was composed and recorded by Young during his UCLA years. Also released on the same collection as VIETNAM WAR STORY, his music for THE MINSTREL'S SONG draws it's influences from the Renaissance era, with the music played by a small ensemble.
THE TOWER was a short film marking the directorial debut of music editor E. Gedney Webb and holds a special place in Young's heart. Webb is the composer's nephew and they had collaborated on scores such as THE DARK HALF and DREAM LOVER. The film tells the story of a burned-out forty-year old man who encounters the ghost of a woman imprisoned in the tower of his summer home by Lake Michigan. Released by Intrada in 2002, THE TOWER was initially presented as forty-minute chamber symphony in five movements. Years later, the composer would return to the material and revise it into the current suite, inviting guitarist, songwriter and longtime friend Mark Hanson to provide lyrics for the principal melodic ideas. The orchestration includes string quartet, piano, harp, solo female voice and electronics.
Golden Globe-nominated composer Christopher Young has scored over 100 films, including films such as HELLRAISER, JENNIFER 8, MURDER IN THE FIRST, COPYCAT, SPECIES, THE HURRICANE, SWORDFISH, THE SHIPPING NEWS, THE HURRICANE, THE CORE, THE GRUDGE, THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE, SPIDER-MAN 3, UNTRACEABLE and the forthcoming films, THE UNINVITED and DRAG ME TO HELL. Born in Red Bank, New Jersey, Young graduated from Massachusetts Hampshire College with a BA in music and did post-graduate work at North Texas State University, studying big band writing and classical composition before moving to Los Angeles in 1980. While enrolled at UCLA, he studied with famed film composer David Raksin. In addition to his career as a film composer, he has also taught composition at UCLA.
Dragon's Domain Records presents CHRISTOPHER YOUNG: THE SHORTS, featuring music composed by Christopher Young for VIETNAM WAR STORY, THE MINSTREL'S SONG and THE TOWER. The music has been newly remastered by Digital Outland. The liner notes have been written by Andrea Bruno and provide important information about each project, with the composer's participation.
2025/8/25の週発売
1. Vietnam War Story Opening (2:55)
2. Vietnam War Story Part 1 (2:00)
3. Vietnam War Story Part 2 (3:53)
4. Vietnam War Story Part 3 (2:08)
5. Vietnam War Story Part 4 (1:21)
6. Vietnam War Story Part 5 (3:11)
7. Vietnam War Story Closing (3:46)
8. The Minstrel's Song Part 1 (3:10)
9. The Minstrel's Song Part 2 (1:41)
10. The Minstrel's Song Part 3 (2:41)
11. The Minstrel's Song Part 4 (1:19)
12. The Minstrel's Song Part 5 (2:05)
13. The Minstrel's Song Part 6 (0:57)
14. The Tower (18:42)
Total Time: 51:27