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Favorite Disney/Pixar/Studio Ghibli musical score

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What is your favorite musical score from any Disney/Pixar/Studio Ghibli movies. And no, I'm not talking about the songs in a particular film, but the music used to enhance the mood of a film. Anyone who knows who Hans Zimmer and John Williams are will get the idea.

Favorite Disney musical score:

- Peter Pan
- Sleeping Beauty
- The Little Mermaid (Alan Menken)
- Mulan (Jerry Goldsmith)
- The Lion King (Hans Zimmer, Mark Mancina)

Favorite Pixar musical score:

- The Incredibles (Michael Giacchino)
- Monsters, Inc. (Randy Newman)
- Toy Story 2 (Randy Newman)

Favorite Studio Ghibli musical score:

- Spirited Away (Joe Hisashi)
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Disney:

Hunchback of Notre Dame
Mulan
Dinosaur
Treasure Planet
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DISNEY

The Lion King
Cinderella
Pocahontas
Brother Bear
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Lady & the Tramp
Beauty & the Beast
The Little Mermaid



PIXAR
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Monsters Inc.
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Disney

Bambi
Peter Pan
Alice in Wonderland

Pixar

Toy Story
Monsters, Inc

Studio Ghibli

Kiki's Delivery Service
Only Yesterday
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Post by Timon/Pumbaa fan »

Disney:
1. Lion King
2. Pinocchio
3. Aladdin
4. Nightmare Before Christmas
5. Beauty and the Beast
6. Little Mermaid
7. Dumbo(Mainly because of Pink Elephants! :D )
8. Jungle Book
9. Pirates of the Carribean
10. Tarzan

Pixar:
1. The Incredibles
2. Toy Story
3. Monster's Inc.
4. A Bug's Life
5. Finding Nemo
6. Toy Story 2
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Disney:
Atlantis

Pixar:
The Incredibles

Ghibli:
Castle in the Sky
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away
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Disney: (In no particular order)
Tarzan
Aladdin
Beauty and the Beast
The Little Mermaid
Bambi
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hercules
Atlantis
The Pirates of the Caribbean
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I'll go off-topic a bit and list what my favourite song/bit of music is from each film that I've seen/can remember hearing (favourite scores highlighted in bold):

Snow White: Some Day My Prince Will Come
Pinocchio: I've got no strings
Fantasia: Ave Maria
Dumbo: When I see an Elephant Fly
Bambi: Love is a song
The Three Caballeros: Baia
Song of the South: Laughing Place
Fun and Fancy Free: Oh What a Happy Day
Melody Time: Blame it on the samba
Ichabod and Mr Toad: Ichabod
Cinderella: Sing Sweet Nightingale
Alice in Wonderland: All in the Golden Afternoon
Peter Pan: You can fly
Lady and the Tramp: He's a Tramp
Sleeping Beauty: Once Upon a Dream

101 Dalmatians: Overture over main titles
The Sword in the Stone: The Legend of the Sword in the Stone
Mary Poppins: Feed the Birds
The Jungle Book: That's what friends are for
The Aristocats: The Aristocats
Bedknobs and Broomsticks: The Beautiful Briny
Robin Hood: Love
Winnie the Pooh: The Rain, Rain Rain Came Down Down Down
The Rescuers: Someone's waiting for you
Pete's Dragon: Candle on the Water
The Fox and the Hound: Best of Friends
The Black Cauldron: Music that comes up over main title
Oliver and Company: Streets of Gold
The Little Mermaid: Overture over main titles
The Rescuers Down Under: Music over Marahute and Cody's first flight
Beauty and the Beast: Prologue music
Aladdin: A Whole New World

The Lion King: Can You Feel the Love Tonight
Pocahontas: Colours of the Wind
The Hunchback of Notre Dame: God Help the Outcasts
Hercules: Go The Distance
Mulan: Reflection
Tarzan: Strangers Like Me
Fantasia 2000: Rhapsody in Blue
Atlantis: Music at beginning where the Queen is taken up by the ray of light
Lilo and Stitch: The Hula Dance Song
Brother Bear: Transformation
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Post by Swiss »

Atlantis: The Lost Empire has an amazing score! It's one of Disney's best! I also love TLK but wish they released a score only soundtrack, we're missing so much from the film.
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Disney:
Brother Bear
The Lion King
Pirates of the Caribbean
Mulan
The Three Caballeros

Studio Ghibli:
The Cat Returns
Kiki's Delivery Service
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Disney:
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Sleeping Beauty
Aladdin
Alice in Wonderland

Pixar:
Monsters, Inc.
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles

Ghibli:
Spirited Away
Kiki's Delivery Service
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Disney:

Oliver and Company
Mulan (Jerry Goldsmith R.I.P.)

Pixar:

Toy Story
A Bug's Life
Monsters, Inc.

Ghibli:

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Kiki's Delivery Service
Spirited Away
The Cat Returns
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im wont give my list of disney scores cause i love most of em.

pixar
a bug's life
monsters inc.
finding nemo

ghibli
mononoke
howls moving castle (its simple,repetitive but it grips u emotionally.) oh god i love this movie so much.
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Beauty and the Beast! I love the opening music of this movie, when it's showing the castle for the first time. Those notes are haunting. The music is just one of the many reasons why this movie is absolutely perfect.
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Post by James »

I love tons of Disney ones but I can't be bothered to writed them all down and I've only seen Spirited Away of the Ghilbi canon, so I'll just tell you guys my fave Pixar and worst Pixar
FAVE PIXAR-
Finding Nemo- Heart warming and poignant. Enough said.
WORST PIXAR-
Toy Story- It's irritating to me, not to say that it isn't a good story or film but the score and songs annoy me.
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My favorite Disney scores:

Sleeping Beauty
Bambi
Fantasia
The Lion King
Peter Pan
Pirates of the Caribbean

...Of course there are plenty of Disney movies for which I need to go back and revisit after a while of not having seen them. This is really just an off-the-top-of-my-head list, but I really do think all of these are amazing.

Pixar? Definitely need to revisit some of these, but I don't think any of the scores have really bowled me over in the way that the aforementioned Disney ones have. I did think that The Incredibles' score did an excellent job and was very fitting for the movie.

As for Ghibli, I still haven't seen any of those (:oops:), so I can't comment.

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Favorite DIsney Scores

Lion King
Peter Pan
Mary Poppins
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Disney:
Fantasia
Bambi
The Little Mermaid
Beauty and the Beast
The Lion King
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Atlantis
The Pirates of the Caribbean

Pixar:
The Incredibles

Ghibli:
I have never seen any of these movies.
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Disney
As far as background music goes, Pocahontas is the best for me. But, if you're counting the songs with the background music, it would definitely be TLM, Hercules, and HoND. Maybe even the Great Mouse Detective (the theme's very addictive).

Pixar
The Incredibles

Ghibli
Spirited Away
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I'm in here more to ask a question, but out of the scores I've paid attention to, Newsies, The Little Mermaid, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Scores play throughout the majority of the running times of films, right? But soundtracks don't have 70 + minutes of score on them, just less than 25 minutes worth. I understand that there wouldn't be enough room on a CD for all the score plus the songs, but how do they choose what score tracks to put on CDs? The most memorable? As a person who hasn't paid much attention to scores, but now has an interest in them, I don't know, but are some parts of score not good enough, or something? Or they really just have to choose the strongest parts of the score to include on CD soundtracks?
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