For more than half a century, Ennio Morricone has composed hollywood soundtracks. Some of his greatest and most famous songs are theme songs to such famous Westerns as The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars, One Upon a Time in the West and My Name is Nobody. His Western music has a specific type of style that usually highlights one specific instrument. This instrument is usually very high and drives the song's melody. Supporting the main instrument is usually a guitar. This running guitar usually highlights the groove and is mostly upbeat and supported by drums that resemble a "running horse". The two songs I picked were "The Man With Harmonica" and "The Theme from A Fistful of Dollars". These songs were both similar in aspects and very different. Like most of Ennio Morricone's songs, both feature a single instrument in the beginning with a high frequency. In "The Man With the Harmonica", a Harmonica leads the beginning. In "A Fistful Dollars", a whistle caries the melody. The rhythm in the first song was very mourning and slow while the second tended to be adventurous and wild. The first song was more intense while the second was more relaxed and laid back. The speed of "Harmonica" was slow and sluggish while the second was faster and more upbeat.
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