1. A Call to Arms
2. After Antietam
3. Lonely Christmas
4. Forming the Regiment
5. The Whipping
6. Burning the Town of Darien
7. Brave Words, Braver Deeds
8. The Year of Jubilee
9. Preparations for Battle
10. Charging Fort Wagner
11. An Epitaph to War
12. Closing Credits
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Director Edward Zwick's 1989 tale of the first company of black soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War captured America's abiding fascination with that great struggle. However, its most unsung player was composer James Horner, who created one of his most grand and memorable scores. So memorable, in fact, that some of its rich cures have been recycled by other filmmakers and Horner himself. More than any other single work, it's Glory that's responsible for Horner's remarkable rise to the top of his profession in the '90s. --Jerry McCulley
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Director Ed Zwick's stirring, tragic Civil War epic inspires a gorgeous, deeply moving score from James Horner, who mirrors the story's bitter ironies and ultimate outcome through a main theme and recurring motifs that emphasize the elegiac over the conventionally heroic. While martial drums inevitably rustle beneath Horner's autumnal charts, the somber main theme, when stated by the Harlem Boys Choir, is at once beautiful and heartbreaking, telegraphing the fate of the story's regiment of African-American volunteers in the Union Army. The climactic battle scene, itself a marvel of cinematic impressionism, elicits a more urgent, insistent Latin theme reminiscent of Carl Orff, and just as dramatic. --Sam Sutherland
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Glory: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
- Audio CD: 0 pages (1992-06-29)
- Publisher: Virgin Records Us
- Label: Virgin Records Us
- Format: Soundtrack
- Studio: Virgin Records Us
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 97 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #2612
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Summary: Fine Soundtrack 2008-10-04
Comment: This is one of James Horner's elegiac soundtracks underlying the ironies, tragedies, and ultimate heroism in the film about the first all-black regiment of Union soldiers during the American Civil War. There's a very haunting main motif! One can certainly hear shades of Horner's music for other films; most notably Field of Dreams and A Beautiful Mind.
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Summary: Glorious Glory 2008-09-30
Comment: James Horner at his best. Haunting vocals, classic horns, this soundtrack is evocative and haunting. Better than Titanic, it clearly helped define Horner's sound. A profound movie replays in your mind when you hear this classic.
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Summary: James Horner continues history of excellence! 2008-07-10
Comment: I recently acquired the movie "Glory" of which James Horner provided the film score. As with any movie, a great deal of the movie's success (or failure) is owed to the soundtrack. I'm happy to say that James Horner continued his tradition of outstanding music for "Glory." The soundtrack captured the mood of the movie and I can't say enough good things about the soundtrack. If you enjoyed the movie, you'll enjoy the soundtrack. James in Durham, NC
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Summary: Still moves me to tears 2008-06-24
Comment: The movie and the soundtrack still move me to tears, they are so beautiful. Don't buy the score on word-of-mouth - see this brilliant film and hear the soundtrack for yourself.
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Summary: A Five Star Soundtrack...A truly great series of compositions 2007-08-13
Comment: We've now had almost 20 years to digest the majesty of this work, and it reduces me to tears just as much now as it did then. A stunning call to arms and statement of purpose, Horner reached a unique level of spiritual significance with this music. If I let myself go there, listening to this soundtrack is almost a religious experience.
Somehow Horner matches the moral power of Abolitionism with the military grandeur of a Civil War, with the intimacy and yearning for justice of the enslaved African-American, and merges it with a historical consciousness that conveys the mood and feeling of the time perhaps better than almost any history book could.
This is truly righteous, marvelous, and American music, and it contains James Horner's best film soundtrack compositions.
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