Sleepy Hollow is the official soundtrack album

Soundtrack album

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 of the 1999

1999 in film

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 Academy Award-winning film

Film

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 Sleepy Hollow

Sleepy Hollow (film)

Sleepy Hollow is a 1999 American period horror film directed by Tim Burton. It is a film adaptation loosely inspired by the 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving and stars Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Marc Pickering, Michael Gambon, Jeffrey Jones,...

. The original score

Film score

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 was written by Danny Elfman

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The score won the Golden Satellite Award

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. It was also nominated by the Las Vegas Film Critics

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About

Danny Elfman composed one of his most densely detailed scores for Sleepy Hollow. The music, though essentially mono-thematic, is inventively developed and ornately orchestrated. Different orchestrations and harmonizations of a single, principal theme represent both the dark and light story elements in the film, though each comes with a handful of related secondary material.

However, save for the delicately light flashback scenes featuring Young Ichabod and his mother, the score is almost oppressively dark and heavily reliant on the low end of the orchestra. The score calls for extensive use of low woodwinds (contrabass clarinet

Contrabass clarinet

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, contrabassoon

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, etc.) and low brass (including Wagner tuba

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 and cimbasso

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Track listing

Tracks marked with ♦ are only available as a bonus track on disc 8 of the Danny Elfman / Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box.

The track numbers listed here do not therefore correspond to the original 1999 album.

1. Introduction
2. Main Titles
3. Young Ichabod
4. The Story...
5. Masbath's Terrible Death
6. Young Masbath ♦
7. Phony Chase ♦
8. Sweet Dreams
9. A Gift
10. Phillipse's Death ♦
11. Into The Woods/The Witch
12. Mysterious Figure ♦
13. More Dreams
14. The Tree of Death
15. Bad Dreams/Tender Moment
16. Evil Eye
17. The Church Battle
18. Love Lost
19. The Windmill
20. The Chase
21. The Final Confrontation
22. A New Day!
23. End Credits