In old westerns (The Good, Bad, & the Ugly and before) there was often a scene where the gunslingers faced each other and there would be a sequence of closeups on their faces and their guns and their hands as they stood still and waited to draw and there was a particular type of music that usually played during that sequence. That’s the best way I can think of to explain the type of music I’m asking about- sometimes it was guitar, but usually, such as in TG,TB&TU, it was something else, or perhaps a particular type of electric guitar maybe…
Anyway, does anybody know what type of music that is called or what type of instruments are used in producing it?
Sorry if this is too vague (but we can agree that society is to blame).
Sampiro, is the music people are talking about from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, the same music that you are talking about?
If so, then that music is not played during alot of gunfight scenes in westerns–it was played in that movie, and in subsequent movies in scenes intended to parody or otherwise comically recall that movie.
As to the instrumentation, I’ve always wondered about this. Particular the wah-wahs. It sounds like voices, but that would be strange.
I meant to edit in “to my knowledge” in that second paragraph above, but forgot to before saving. Now I look alot more sure of myself than I actually am. Apologies.
I’m pretty sure the first part of the theme is an ocarina, and the second part (wah-wah-wah), sounds like a harmonica of some sort. Apparently, they did use an “electric harmonica” when recording the soundtrack, so I bet that’s what it is. It sure as heck sounds like a processed harmonic to me.
As for the OP, I’m not sure what exactly the music is you’re referring to. I never watched a lot of westerns, but when I think gunfight scene, I sometimes hear that Western heavily-reverbed, almost Dick Dale-like, guitar.
