| Sunset Boulevard: Original Motion Picture Score | |
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| Soundtrack album by Franz Waxman | |
| Released | November 19, 2002 (2002-11-19) |
| Label | Varèse Sarabande |
The soundtrack to the film Sunset Boulevard (1950) was composed by Franz Waxman.
In 2005, Franz Waxman's score was named #16 of the top 25 film scores in the American Film Institute's "100 Years of Film Scores" list.
It was released on CD in 2002, an edition that was re-recorded by Joel McNeely and the Scottish Symphony Orchestra. The actual surviving parts of the original score were released in 2010 on Counterpoint.
The score and orchestral parts for the orchestral suite were published by MAPESU Music.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Sunset Boulevard Prelude" | 3:51 |
| 2. | "Paramount Studio" | 0:55 |
| 3. | "Chase and Mansion" | 3:42 |
| 4. | "Norma Desmond" | 2:18 |
| 5. | "An Aging Actress" | 0:54 |
| 6. | "Reading the Script" | 2:34 |
| 7. | "The Strange Garden" | 1:56 |
| 8. | "Norma's Gallery" | 1:24 |
| 9. | "The Waxworks and the Bridge Game" | 1:44 |
| 10. | "Afternoon Outings" | 1:00 |
| 11. | "Sacrifice of Self-Respect" | 4:07 |
| 12. | "The Old Bathing Beauty" | 2:29 |
| 13. | "Parading to Paramount" | 0:55 |
| 14. | "Old Friends" | 1:26 |
| 15. | "DeMille's Companion" | 0:42 |
| 16. | "Norma's Suspicions" | 3:55 |
| 17. | "A New Interest and the Studio Stroll" | 5:08 |
| 18. | "Her First Husband" | 2:56 |
| 19. | "The Showdown" | 4:14 |
| 20. | "Farewell" | 1:56 |
| 21. | "Joe Walks Out" | 5:22 |
| 22. | "The Corpse" | 1:11 |
| 23. | "The Comeback" | 4:24 |
| 24. | "Sunset Boulevard Cast" | 0:31 |
| 25. | "Prelude and Conversing Corpses" | 9:01 |
| Total length: | 69:41 | |
References
- "AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores", AFI. Retrieved 19 November 2011.
- "Soundtrack details: Sunset Blvd". SoundtrackCollector. Retrieved 2010-03-17.
- "Sunset BLVD".
- "Sunset Boulevard Suite" Score & Orchestral parts