Music from Macbeth

1972 music album by Third Ear Band

Music from Macbeth

Film score by

Third Ear Band

Released| 1972
Recorded| 1971
Studio| Air Studios, London
Length| 43:42
Label| Harvest Records (original release)
BGO Records (1990 reissue)
Blueprint Records (reissue)
Producer| Andrew King, Third Ear Band
Third Ear Band chronology
| Abelard and Heloise
(1970)  | Music from Macbeth
(1972)  | Prophecies
(1972)

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Music from Macbeth is a 1972 album by the Third Ear Band. It consists of the soundtrack from Roman Polanski's 1971 film Macbeth, an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth.

## Composition

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The band composed original music for the film, by adding electronic music to hand drums, woodwinds and strings.[1] Elements of music in India and the Middle East and jazz were also incorporated into the score.[2]

While the score has some Middle Ages influence, this is not found in the scenes where Duncan is assassinated and Macbeth is killed. Polanski and the band used aleatoric music for these scenes, to communicate chaos.[1]

## Track listing

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1. "Overture" - 4:20
2. "The Beach" - 1:54
3. "Lady Macbeth" - 1:47
4. "Inverness: Macbeth's Return/The Preparation/Fanfare/Duncan's Arrival" - 5:00
5. "The Banquet" - 1:21
6. "Dagger and Death" - 2:49
7. "At the Well/The Princes's Escape/Coronation/Come Sealing Night" - 3:03
8. "Court Dance" - 2:28
9. "Fleance" - 4:02
10. "Grooms' Dance" - 4:21
11. "Bear Baiting" - 1:10
12. "Ambush/Banquo's Ghost" - 2:27
13. "Going to Bed/Blind Man's Buff/Requiescant/Sere and Yellow Leaf" - 3:04
14. "The Cauldron" - 2:39
15. "Prophesies" - 1:53
16. "Wicca Way" - 1:24

(All compositions by Bridges, Sweeney, Minns, and Buckmaster.)

## Personnel

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* Paul Minns -- oboe and recorder
* Glen Sweeney -- drums
* Paul Buckmaster -- cello and bass guitar
* Simon House -- violin and VCS3
* Denim Bridges -- guitars

The album also features vocals by a 12-year-old Keith Chegwin.

The cover was originally painted by Roger Dean.[3]

## References

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1. ^ a b Williams, Deanne (2008). "Mick Jagger Macbeth". Shakespeare Survey: Macbeth and Its Afterlife: An Annual Survey of Shakespeare Studies and Production. Vol. 57\. Cambridge University Press. p. 152.
2. ^ Sandford, Christopher (2007). Polanski. Random House. p. 222.
3. ^ "Third Ear Band - Music from Macbeth". Discogs. 1972.

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William Shakespeare's Macbeth

Characters|

* Macbeth
* Lady Macbeth
* Banquo
* Macduff
* King Duncan
* Malcolm
* Donalbain
* Three Witches
* Fleance
* Lady Macduff
* Macduff's son
* Third Murderer
* Young Siward

Inspirations|

* Macbeth, King of Scotland
* Gruoch of Scotland
* Duncan I of Scotland
* Malcolm III of Scotland
* Donald III of Scotland
* Siward, Earl of Northumbria
* King James VI and I

Sources|

* Daemonologie (1597)
* The Witch (play)
* Holinshed's Chronicles
* Darraðarljóð

Film|

* 1908
* 1909 (French)
* 1909 (Italian)
* 1911
* 1913
* 1915
* 1916
* 1922
* 1948
* Unfinished
* 1971
* 2006
* 2015
* The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
* accolades

Television|

* 1954
* 1960 US TV
* 1960 Australian TV
* 1961
* 1979
* 1982
* 1983
* 1992
* 2010

TV / film adaptations|

* The Real Thing at Last (1916)
* Marmayogi (1951)
* Joe MacBeth (1955)
* Throne of Blood (1957)
* Marmayogi (1964)
* Macbeth (Verdi opera) (1987)
* Men of Respect (1990)
* Scotland, PA (2001)
* Makibefo (2001)
* Maqbool (2003)
* 2005
* The Last King of Scotland (2006)
* Shakespeare Must Die (2012)
* Thane of East County (2015)
* Veeram (2016)
* Joji (2021)

Plays|

* Khwab-e-Hasti (1909)
* Voodoo Macbeth (1936)
* MacBird! (1967)
* uMabatha (1970)
* Macbett (1972)
* Cahoot's Macbeth (1979)
* MacHomer (1995)
* Just Macbeth! (2008)
* Sleep No More (2009)
* Dunsinane (2010)
* Sleep No More (2011)

Literary adaptations|

* Wyrd Sisters (1988)
* The Last King of Scotland (1998)
* Macbeth (2018)

Music|

* Macbeth (Johann Strauss)
* Piano Trios, Op. 70 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
* Music from Macbeth (1972)
* Macbeth (1990)
* Thane to the Throne (2000)
* Shakespeare's Macbeth – A Tragedy in Steel (2003)
* Lady Macbeth (2005)

| Opera|

* Macbeth (1847, Verdi)
* discography
* Macbeth (1910, Bloch)

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Art|

* Pity (1795)
* The Night of Enitharmon's Joy (1795)
* Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers (1812 painting)
* Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth (1889)
* Lady Macbeth (1905 sculpture)

Scenes and speeches|

* "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth" (1823)
* Sleepwalking Scene (5.1)
* "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow"

Words and phrases|

* "What's done is done"
* "Crack of doom"
* The Scottish Play
* Thane of Cawdor

In popular culture|

| Novels, film and theatre|

* We Work Again
* Light Thickens
* The Deadly Affair
* Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine
* The Scottish Play
* Burke & Hare

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Television|

* "A Witch's Tangled Hare" (1959, Looney Tunes)
* "The Bellero Shield" (1964, The Outer Limits)
* "The Movies" (1975, The Goodies)
* "Sense and Senility" (1987, Blackadder the Third)
* "The Coup" (2006, The Office)
* "Dial 'N' for Nerder" (2008, The Simpsons)
* "Four Great Women and a Manicure" (2009, The Simpsons)
* "The Shower Principle" (2012, 30 Rock)
* "The Understudy" (2014, Inside No. 9)

Other|

* The Scottish Play
* The Ruins of Cawdor
* House of Cards (UK, 1990)
* House of Cards (US, 2013–2018)
* Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury)

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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