Bill Wrobel's DVD - Film Score Rundowns

probably include it in my Top Hundred list for sure, maybe even the Top 57 list, or--what
the heck!—within the Top 38 list! You can’t beat this Cary Grant & Audrey Hepburn
pairing, the Paris locations, the vibrant colors, the excellent co-starring cast (Walter
Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy), and I loved the fun opening credits
animation.
I worked on this score Friday, September 24, 2004, starting at 1:37 pm. It was
located in the Motion Picture Collection at UCLA, Box 2 (Charade) This was not the
fully orchestrated score but a condensed score of some type (forgot exactly what).
Unfortunately I did not have much available time to work on the score because I wanted
to work on Mancini’s Peter Gunn as well, so I have little to offer below.
“Opening” 2 nd version, 5 bars. Another 2 nd version composed was 4 bars in
length. This music is placed at the very opening of the movie with the Universal Pictures
logo showing [dvd 00:00:01]. Instrumentation: guitar on the top staff, then 4 trumpets, 4
horns, 4 Pos, violins, then a staff comprised of 2 altos and 2 tenors (4 clarinets), then
violas, basses, then timp/piano. VC (I believe 4 of them) play mp Great octave E whole
note in C time tied to whole note next bar and tied to dotted half note in Bar 3 in 3/4 time
and tied to dotted half note in Bar 4 held fermata to (Bar 5) 8 th note. Pos IV play this as
well. After a half rest in Bar 1, Pos III (and 4 top line VC) play Great octave B half note
tied to next bars as given. After a half and quarter rest, Pos II (and some violas) play
small octave C quarter note tied to next bars. In Bar 2, Pos I (and top line violas) play
small octave F# whole note tied to next bars as given. S violas play as Pos I-II.
Contrabasses play Great octave E whole note tied to next bar, and also the piano. After a
quarter rest in Bar 2, clarinets sound sub-tone small octave G to A to middle C quarter
notes to (Bar 3 in 3/4 time) D to F to G quarter notes to (Bar 4) A dotted half note tied to
8 th note next bar. After a quarter rest in Bar 2, some violins play small octave G dotted
half note tied to next bar as given. After a half rest, other violins play A half note tied to
next bars. Other violins play, after a quarter rest, G to B to C quarter notes to (Bar 3) D
dotted half note tied to next bars. The four horns play as the violins. In Bar 3, trumpet IV
plays Line 1 D dotted half note tied to dotted half note in Bar 4 held fermata and tied to
8 th note in Bar 5. Trumpet III plays D to E quarter notes to G quarter note tied to next
bars. Trumpet II plays after a quarter rest plays E half note tied to next bars. In Bar 4,
trumpet I plays Line 1 A dotted half note held fermata crescendo and tied to 8 th note next
bar forte. In Bar 5 the guitar plays Great octave E/B/small octave F#/A/Line 1 D whole
notes held fermata. This appears to be the B min 7 th /11 (B/D/F#/A/E).
“Main Title” Dvd location 00:01:01. 10 pages, 76 bars. Clix 6 free.
The music opens with the Tahitian wood blocks sounding mf in 3/2 time. We find
x-headed notes notated at the top line of the staff starting on quarter-quarter-quarter notes
to 8 th to 8 th tied to 8 th note to 8 th note to quarter note to (Bar 2) quarter note to 8 th note to
8 th note tied to 8 th note to 8 th note to three quarter notes. Repeat these two bars in the next
bars. After two half rests in Bar 2, the jazz bass (plucks a half note “piano strum” (?). I’m
really not sure what’s going on in this top staff (Tahitian drums on the staff below it).
Then in Bar 5 perhaps the CB (probably the celli) plucks pizzicato on Great octave A
quarter note (followed by a quarter and half rest) up to small octave E quarter note
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