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Jerry Goldsmith
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Jerry Goldsmith was born in 1929 in Los Angeles and was taught by Miklós Rózsa. He began in radio and television at CBS. In the 1960s he brought modernist techniques to Hollywood. For Freud (1962) and Planet of the Apes (1968) he used twelve-tone rows, unusual percussion and playing techniques such as blowing through horns without the mouthpiece. Chinatown (1974) was given a melancholy solo trumpet. For The Omen (1976) he wrote a chorus with a Latin text and won his only Oscar. Alien (1979) and Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) followed. Goldsmith wrote in almost every genre and kept searching for new sounds until his death in 2004.
Listening
Listening tip. Notice the angular rhythms and unusual sounds of the percussion and brass, and compare them with the warm, lonely trumpet of Chinatown.
The Hunt · Jerry Goldsmith, 1968
Love Theme from Chinatown (Main Title) · Jerry Goldsmith, 1974
Ave Satani · Jerry Goldsmith, 1976
Discography
Studio albums
- 1964Lilies of the Field (soundtrack)
- 1965A Patch of Blue (soundtrack)
- 1965In Harm's Way (soundtrack)
- 1966Hour of the Gun (soundtrack)
- 1966Our Man Flint (soundtrack)
- 1966Stagecoach (soundtrack)
- 1966The Blue Max (soundtrack)
- 1966The Sand Pebbles (soundtrack)
- 1966The Trouble with Angels (soundtrack)
- 1966Warning Shot (soundtrack)
- 1967In Like Flint: Original Motion Picture Score (soundtrack)
- 1968Bandolero! (soundtrack)
- 1968Planet of the Apes (soundtrack)
- 1968Sebastian (soundtrack)
- 1969Justine (soundtrack)
- 1969The Chairman (soundtrack)
- 1970Patton (soundtrack)
- 1971The Last Run (soundtrack)
- 1971Wild Rovers: Original Music From the Motion Picture (soundtrack)
- 1973Papillon (soundtrack)
- 1974Chinatown: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (soundtrack)
- 1974QB VII (soundtrack)
- 1975Ransom (soundtrack)
- 1975The Wind and the Lion (soundtrack)
- 1976Logan's Run (soundtrack)
- 1976The Omen (soundtrack)
- 1977Freud (soundtrack)
- 1977Islands in the Stream (soundtrack)
- 1977MacArthur (soundtrack)
- 1977The Cassandra Crossing (soundtrack)
- 1978Capricorn One (soundtrack)
- 1978Coma (soundtrack)
- 1978Damien: Omen II (soundtrack)
- 1978The Boys from Brazil (soundtrack)
- 1978The Swarm (soundtrack)
- 1979Alien (soundtrack)
- 1979Star Trek: The Motion Picture: Music From the Original Soundtrack (soundtrack)
- 1981Masada (soundtrack)
- 1981The Secret of NIMH (soundtrack)
- 1982First Blood (soundtrack)
- 1982Inchon (soundtrack)
- 1982Night Crossing (soundtrack)
- 1982Poltergeist (soundtrack)
- 1983Psycho II (soundtrack)
- 1983Under Fire: Original Motion Picture Sound Track (soundtrack)
- 1984Gremlins (soundtrack)
- 1984Supergirl: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (soundtrack)
- 1985Explorers (soundtrack)
- 1985King Solomon's Mines (soundtrack)
- 1985Legend (soundtrack)
- 1985Rambo: First Blood Part II (soundtrack)
- 1985Runaway (soundtrack)
- 1986Link (soundtrack)
- 1986Poltergeist II: The Other Side (soundtrack)
- 1986The Final Conflict (soundtrack)
- 1987Extreme Prejudice (soundtrack)
- 1987Hoosiers (soundtrack)
- 1987Innerspace (soundtrack)
- 1987Lionheart, Volume 1 (soundtrack)
- 1987Lionheart, Volume 2 (soundtrack)
- 1987Lionheart: The Epic Symphonic Score (soundtrack)
- 1988Criminal Law (soundtrack)
- 1988Rambo III (soundtrack)
- 1988Rent-a-Cop (soundtrack)
- 1989Leviathan (soundtrack)
- 1989Rio Conchos (soundtrack)
- 1989Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (soundtrack)
- 1989Warlock (soundtrack)
- 1990Gremlins 2: The New Batch (soundtrack)
- 1990The Russia House (soundtrack)
- 1990Total Recall (soundtrack)
- 1991Not Without My Daughter (soundtrack)
- 1991Raggedy Man (soundtrack)
- 1991Sleeping With the Enemy (soundtrack)
- 1991Twilight's Last Gleaming (soundtrack)
- 1992Basic Instinct (soundtrack)
- 1992Forever Young: Original Soundtrack (soundtrack)
- 1992Medicine Man (soundtrack)
- 1992Mom and Dad Save the World (soundtrack)
- 1992Mr. Baseball (soundtrack)
- 1992The 'Burbs (soundtrack)
- 1993Caboblanco (soundtrack)
- 1993Dennis the Menace (soundtrack)
- 1993Love Field (soundtrack)
- 1993Malice (soundtrack)
- 1993Matinee (soundtrack)
- 1993Rudy (soundtrack)
- 1994100 Rifles (soundtrack)
- 1994Angie (soundtrack)
- 1994Bad Girls (soundtrack)
- 1994High Velocity (soundtrack)
- 1994Six Degrees of Separation (soundtrack)
- 1994The River Wild (soundtrack)
- 1994The Shadow (soundtrack)
- 1995Congo (soundtrack)
- 1995First Knight (soundtrack)
- 1995Lonely Are the Brave (soundtrack)
- 1995Powder (soundtrack)
- 1995The List of Adrian Messenger (soundtrack)
- 1996Chain Reaction (soundtrack)
- 1996City Hall (soundtrack)
- 1996Executive Decision (soundtrack)
- 1996Star Trek: First Contact (soundtrack)
- 1996The Ghost and the Darkness (soundtrack)
- 1997Air Force One: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (soundtrack)
- 1997Fierce Creatures (soundtrack)
- 1997L.A. Confidential (soundtrack)
- 1997The Edge (soundtrack)
- 1998Deep Rising (soundtrack)
- 1998Innerspace (soundtrack)
- 1998Mulan - Banda Sonora en Castellano (soundtrack)
- 1998Mulan (Deutscher Original Film-Soundtrack) (soundtrack)
- 1998Mulan (Originele Nederlandstalige Soundtrack) (soundtrack)
- 1998Mulan: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack (soundtrack)
- 1998Small Soldiers (soundtrack)
- 1998Star Trek: Insurrection: Music From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (soundtrack)
- 1998U.S. Marshals (soundtrack)
- 1998花木蘭 電影原聲帶 國際中文版 (soundtrack)
- 1999Breakout (soundtrack)
- 1999Contract on Cherry Street (soundtrack)
- 1999The 13th Warrior: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (soundtrack)
- 1999The Haunting (soundtrack)
- 1999The Mummy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (soundtrack)
- 1999The Spiral Road (soundtrack)
- 2000Hollow Man (soundtrack)
- 2000Police Story (soundtrack)
- 2000Take a Hard Ride (soundtrack)
- 2000The Challenge (soundtrack)
- 2000Tora! Tora! Tora! (soundtrack)
- 2000Twilight Zone: The Movie (soundtrack)
- 2001Along Came a Spider (soundtrack)
- 2001Outland (soundtrack)
- 2001Rio Lobo (soundtrack)
- 2001The Illustrated Man (soundtrack)
- 2001The Last Castle (soundtrack)
- 2002Christus Apollo
- 2002Star Trek: Nemesis: Music From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (soundtrack)
- 2002Studs Lonigan (soundtrack)
- 2002The Ballad of Cable Hogue (soundtrack)
- 2002The Prize (soundtrack)
- 2002The Sum of All Fears (soundtrack)
- 2002The Traveling Executioner (soundtrack)
- 2003Looney Tunes: Back in Action (soundtrack)
- 2003Magic (soundtrack)
- 2004The Great Train Robbery (soundtrack)
- 2004Timeline (soundtrack)
- 2005Alien Nation (soundtrack)
- 2006Breakheart Pass (soundtrack)
- 2007The Satan Bug (soundtrack)
- 2007The Vanishing: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (soundtrack)
- 2008Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (soundtrack)
- 2009Cain's Hundred (soundtrack)
- 2009Dr. Kildare (soundtrack)
- 2009Planet of the Apes (soundtrack)
- 2009One Little Indian (soundtrack)
- 2010A Gathering of Eagles (soundtrack)
- 2010Players (soundtrack)
- 2010The Going Up of David Lev: Original Television Soundtrack (soundtrack)
- 2011City of Fear (soundtrack)
- 20122 Days in the Valley (soundtrack)
- 2012The Last Hard Men (soundtrack)
- 2012The Red Pony (soundtrack)
- 2013Alien Nation (soundtrack)
- 2013Gladiator (soundtrack)
- 2013The Agony and the Ecstasy
- 2015In Harm's Way (soundtrack)
- 2016Take a Hard Ride (soundtrack)
- 2016The Blue Max (soundtrack)
- 2017Damnation Alley (soundtrack)
- 2018The Lonely Guy (soundtrack)
- 2018The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (soundtrack)
- 2020Morituri (soundtrack)
- 2020Take Her, She's Mine (soundtrack)
- 2020The Don is Dead (soundtrack)
- 2021Face of a Fugitive (soundtrack)
- 2021Shamus (soundtrack)
- 2021The Public Eye (soundtrack)
- 2022Matinee (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (soundtrack)
- 2022Seconds (soundtrack)
- 2024The Other (soundtrack)
- 2025Pursuit / Crawspace / The People Next Door (soundtrack)
- 2025The Chairman: Original Score (soundtrack)
Other work
- 1974Chinatown
- 1979Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- 1998Mulan
In School of Rock
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- The Dream Factory: Film Reel 5NL Reader
Mentioned in other articles
- New Hollywood Genre
For Chinatown (1974), Jerry Goldsmith chose a small, unusual line-up with solo trumpet, strings, pianos and harps.
- Modernism, atonality and avant-garde Genre
In Planet of the Apes (1968), Jerry Goldsmith used twelve-tone rows, a great deal of percussion and wind instruments played with unusual techniques.