KILAR Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Partitura. Omni Music

In 1992, Columbia Pictures released director Francis Ford Coppola’s sumptuous vision of the Dracula myth, based on Bram Stoker’s story. It was a massive success for the studio, earning $215.9 million, five times the budget. Based on a script penned by James V. Hart, critics praised the film’s grand, gorgeous, and gothic production design. Gary Oldman turned in an iconic and nuanced performance as the titular character. Coppola tasked Polish composer, Wojciech Kilar, to write the music for the Eastern European setting. His score reflects both sides of Dracula: the menacing and the sensuous.

Kilar chose to utilize traditional leitmotifs. There are four primary themes, each of which must balance between elements of horror, romance, vengeance, and redemption. Dracula’s music captures the character’s tortured psyche; a forlorn soul tom between vengeance and unrequited love. The love theme offers the score’s most brilliant and sublime moments. It is Barry-esque in its sensibilities, featuring alto- and bass-flute solos, harp adornments, and lush string harmonies. Kilar adds a full chorus for mystery and might who supply disquieting whispers and glorious religious chants. For the first time ever, musicians, music students, conductors – any music lover – can study Dracula in this durable, high-quality edition, carefully reproduced and edited from the original handwritten manuscript.

Film Credits
Analyse der Partitur
Orchesterbesetzung
BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA, PARTITUR: – The Beginning
The Beginning (cont.’d)
The Book
The Journey
The Castle
The Fatal Step
The Legacy
Mina’s Photo (Spilled Ink)
The Party
Dracula’s Shadow (The Book)
The Brides
To the Brides
The Storm
First Look (The Letter I)
Love Remembered (Alt.)
Lucy’s Neck
The Cinema
Dracula Travels Part (Lucy’s Window)
Rules Café Waltz (Album Version)
Mina/Dracula (Rules Café)
Lucy Squirms (Alt.)
First Look Ver. 1 Alt (The Letter II)
The Hunt Builds
Dracula Revealed
Lucy’s Lullaby
Vocal & Harp
The Stake
The Hunter’s Prelude (Vampire Hunters)
The Hunter’s Prelude
The Green Mist
Mina/Dracula (Orig Ext End)
First Look Alt. Ver. 1 (The Fire)
The Train
So Cold
Mina Possessed
Lucy’s Screech (Ring of Fire)
Race Against the Sunset
Love Eternal (Love Remembered)
The End
End Credits
Dracula’s Shadow Alt. (The Book)
To the Brides Alt. 1
Lucy Squirms (Orig.)
Rules Café Waltz (The Letter II Alt.)
Lucy’s Screech (The Stake Alt.)
Love Remembered (Orig.)
First Look Alt. Ver. 2 (The Letter II Alt.)
The Brides Alt. (So Cold Alt.)
Race Against the Sunset Alt.
Toolbox D A, B, C
Dracula Toolbox – Tears to Diamonds
To the Brides Alt. 2
From the Brides
Saving Lucy
Rules Café Waltz (Orig. Ver.)
Remembering