Amazing Grace (score)

Amazing Grace: Original Score from the Motion Picture
Soundtrack album by David Arnold
Released	March 6, 2007 (digital); March 20, 2007 (physical)
Genre	Film score
Length	43:05
Label	Sparrow
Producer	David Arnold
David Arnold chronology

Amazing Grace: Original Score from the Motion Picture is another soundtrack for the movie Amazing Grace starring Ioan Gruffudd, this soundtrack features an original score composed by David Arnold.

History

David Arnold, who is best known for composing scores for films, such as Independence Day, Stargate, and Godzilla, completed his journey from the film genres of action-adventure to art house. Amazing Grace is based on the 20-year crusade of William Wilberforce to end slavery in the British Empire, as Arnold includes the scores of quasi-folk songs to Negro spirituals; his basic material, however, remains unchanged from earlier projects.[1]

Arnold's tone for this project is far more earnest than before, one that hears distant echos of "Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem" and "Four Sea Interludes" at times, but his score has the merit of being the music that solely functions as an adjunct with an imaging enhancement on the screen, as a medium, not the message.[1]

Production

Composer Nicholas Dadd produced, orchestrated, and conducted on this soundtrack. It features an unnamed group of session musicians contracted by Isobel Griffiths.[1]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by David Arnold.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Opening Title"	3:46
2.	"Torture"	0:47
3.	"Fetch Him"	1:17
4.	"God and Nature"	1:07
5.	"Politics and Religion"	1:31
6.	"Good Morning John"	1:41
7.	"Ghosts"	1:47
8.	"The 2nd Nightmare"	1:41
9.	"The Slave Ship"	2:19
10.	"The Gardens"	1:46
11.	"We Have Hope"	1:46
12.	"Courting"	1:03
13.	"Parliament"	1:58
14.	"Dark Meeting"	0:48
15.	"Will of the People"	2:43
16.	"Rejecting the Bill"	1:34
17.	"Waking the Demons"	1:35
18.	"Off the Ship"	0:52
19.	"Cheat the Law"	0:47
20.	"Devious Plan"	1:13
21.	"Something's Up"	2:28
22.	"No More"	1:44
23.	"Dying"	3:40
24.	"Triumph"	3:12
25.	"Amazing Grace" (Bagpipe Instrumental*)	2:58
Total length:		43:05

( * = iTunes album-only bonus track)

Awards

In 2008, the album won a Dove Award for Instrumental Album of the Year at the 39th GMA Dove Awards.[2]

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References

Amazing Grace [Original Score from the Motion Picture on AllMusic AllMusic.com Retrieved June 8, 2015
Nominations Announced for 39th GMA Dove Awards on CBN.com (February 14, 2008)

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[stone1-1] Amazing Grace [Original Score from the Motion Picture on AllMusic AllMusic.com Retrieved June 8, 2015

[2] Nominations Announced for 39th GMA Dove Awards on CBN.com (February 14, 2008)