Twilight - The Score: Music from the Motion Picture (Piano Solo Songbook) (Pvg) [Paperback]

Carter Burwell (Composer)

Book Description

Series: Pvg | Publication Date: December 1, 2008

Based on Stephenie Meyer's popular vampire-romance novels, the movie Twilight is taking huge bites out of box office receipts across the country! Composer Carter Burwell is highly regarded for his scores for the Coen brothers movies. Here are piano solo arrangements of music he composed for this film, including the achingly beautiful "Bella's Lullaby" and ten more pieces: Dinner with His Family * Edward at Her Bed * I Dreamt of Edward * I Would Be the Meal * In Place of Someone You Love * The Lion Fell in Love with the Lamb * Phascination Phase * Stuck Here like Mom * Tracking * Who Are They?.

Product Details

• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation (December 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1423469062
• ISBN-13: 978-1423469063
• Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 7.2 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #200,738 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Bella's Lullaby is NOT THE SAME!, December 28, 2008

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M. Ireland - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Twilight - The Score: Music from the Motion Picture (Piano Solo Songbook) (Pvg) (Paperback)

Whoever transcribed this score did an awful job. The chords for Bella's Lullaby don't match up at all with the music released on the soundtrack. As if that weren't annoying enough, the chords given sound... wrong, like they're in the wrong key or something. Honestly, you'll do better to find the few copies of user-created Bella's Lullaby floating around on the internet--those are much more faithful to the actual score.

I gave it two stars because the other music included sounds... okay. It's a lot of the same stuff over and over again--nothing very original. But since most people are going to buy this to learn Bella's Lullaby, I want to urge y'all to steer clear.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Bella's Lullaby-Variation Theme Note Misprint, December 31, 2008

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Jennifer Douglass (Colorado Springs, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Twilight - The Score: Music from the Motion Picture (Piano Solo Songbook) (Pvg) (Paperback)

It's great to have the piano music for the score of the Twilight movie, and especially for Bella's Lullaby that everyone loves! However, some of the chords in Bella's Lullaby sound off, even if there's supposed to be some dissonance. My biggest pet peeve is that there is a wrong note in the variation theme of the lullaby. On page 19 for the lullaby, in the first measure of the 1st ending (eight measures from the end), the note on the third beat of the measure should be an E instead of a G in the right hand. Carter Burwell's website([...])shows the music for the original theme and the variation theme, and the book has it wrong. It makes the variation theme sound completely different!

Overall, I am happy to have the lullaby as well as other parts of the score, but I almost like the version I found on the internet better. I would still recommend this for any pianist who loves the twilight score!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great!, January 9, 2010

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Hannah A. Zweizig "HAZ'd" (Reading, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Twilight - The Score: Music from the Motion Picture (Piano Solo Songbook) (Pvg) (Paperback)

Not only did the songbook come in like 2 days it was perfect. I was really excited for this songbook but wasn't sure if it was a good buy or not because of the reviews I have read about it being nothing like the songs in the movie. In the end I'm really happy that I decided to purchase it because it was exactly what I wanted. Don't listen to the reviews that say Bella's Lullaby is wrong! I played it while listening to the song and everything matched up...thank you :)