Ennio Morricone, whose haunting, inventive scores expertly accentuated the simmering, dialogue-free tension of the spaghetti Westerns directed by Sergio Leone, has died. He was 91. By Mike Barnes ...

An international conference entitled "Music Between Nation and Form: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and the Boundaries of Italianita" combined modernist musical performances with the historical context of ...

Italo composer Dario Marianelli, Oscar-nommed for his score for Joe Wright’s “Anna Karenina,” is indicative of the influence Italians have had on movie music. Marianelli and others are increasingly ...

Ennio Morricone, an Italian composer whose wildly inventive soundtracks – from the electric guitar, whistle, whip crack and coyote howl of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” to the dramatic choral and ...

ROME (AP) — Ennio Morricone, the Oscar-winning Italian composer who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and often haunting soundtracks for ...

Three opera icons stepped onto the stage during Friday's opening ceremony. Each of them are more than 200 years old ...

ROME — Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and the soundtracks such classic Hollywood gangster movies ...

The National Cinema Museum of Turin in Italy is paying tribute to Maestro Ennio Morricone by proposing the diffusion of his most famous music in the pedestrian area in front of the Mole Antonelliana ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ROME – Italian soundtrack composer Riz Ortolani, who won a Grammy for his “Mondo Cane” theme “More,” and whose wide range of music ...