Ennio Morricone Fans Handbook [antikvár]

0-1 Editor's Words"Time flies, season flows", just as what Kong Rong, the litterateur in Eastern Han Dynasty, once said 1800 years ago, the writer has come to his "oldest old" years now without even realizing it. Another 15 years simply passed counting from the year 1997, when he retired from the Nanjing branch of SINOPEC. Soon, a vital thing in his retire life, the website "http;//morricone.cn/" will come to its 10th anniversary. Meanwhile, the association of the Morricone fans will also come to its 3rd anniversary. Together with these cheerful things, the book "A manual for Morricone fans" has been accomplished eventually and will be published soon, which makes the writer's another dream come true.http://morricone.cn/ is a privately owned but free-access website. It was set up in 2003. From that day thanks to the attentions and supports from hundreds of thousands of Morricone fans home and abroad, day after day, it gets more and more famous, develops stably and has won itself the reputation in the circle of Morricone fans. Over the past decade, it has received more than one million visitors coming from 176 countries and districts all over the world, and plays well its role of spreading the fine works of the world known master of the soundtracks, Morricone. Although it has many defects and deficiencies, it has set up its foundation both in the vast internet and the diverse art domain, and has found its own way of development.Morricone's works are world known treasures. He is also familiar to the Chinese, when he won the Academy Honorary Award of Oscar in 2007 and gave the concerts in Beijing in 2009 and in Shanghai in 2010. People can find various themes from his works which are always composed in a unique style, so that they are moved deeply In particular, the soundtracks he wrote to these movies bring the screen an indescribable meaning. The melodies of the genius create an extraordinary visual and audio effect, connotational and impressive. By all these efforts, his works capture the hearts and purify the spirits of millions of audiences globally from different societies, in different colors, with different faiths, and in different hierarchies. The writer is driven by the same experience, so that he has the energy to continue the work of spreading the Morricone's works in so many years after his retirement.Morricone's work is an inexhaustible treasury, which covers a wide range: as for the period, it's from "Genesis" to the incident "911", as for the characters, it's from the starving low-downs to the luxurious and dissipated upper-classes. In these years, I get the chance to explore this treasury, with the help of the friends all over the world, so would like to try my best to share with everyone the study results through the website.But the website is, after all, a virtual space. The advantage of a website is spreading fast, widely having immense capacity, but the shortage is that it depends a lot on the physical equipments such as the