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Wolf Hall’ Viewers Flock to the Soundtrack
The broadcast of ‘Wolf Hall’ has brought interest in the soundtrack, which includes contemporary and early music
Television soundtrack music often fades from memory as fast as remotes can switch channels, but something different happened with the British miniseries “Wolf Hall.”
Based on the Booker Prize-winning novels of Hilary Mantel and being broadcast on PBS Masterpiece, the series tells the story of the Tudors, the ill-fated Anne Boleyn and, most important, the royal adviser Thomas Cromwell.
Behind the dynastic drama are two distinct musical backdrops, both of which are garnering attention for a type of music usually enjoyed by a niche classical audience. There’s a modern soundtrack, written by British composer Debbie Wiseman, and period music from the late 15th and early 16th century, sourced and arranged by Claire van Kampen. Neither was involved with the Broadway adaptation.
In Britain, BBC2 aired the final episode of the miniseries in late February; by late March, Ms. Wiseman’s soundtrack topped the U.K.’s Classic FM chart. Most recently, it was No. 6. The album has so far sold an unexpected 2,100 copies, more than double the initial order, said a spokesman for the record label Silva Screen. A “Wolf Hall” soundtrack album of Tudor music on VIA Records, which is distributed by Naxos, became available for preorder on Wednesday in advance of a June 9 release. It’s too early to tell if American viewers will similarly focus on the music: The miniseries began airing last Sunday.
This is Ms. Wiseman’s sixth collaboration with “Wolf Hall” director Peter Kosminsky. A conductor and noted film composer in the U.K., she has scored several hundred movies and television shows, including the BBC war drama “Warriors” and the 1994 film “Tom & Viv,” about T.S. Eliot and his first wife.
For her “Wolf Hall” score, Ms. Wiseman says that “we decided it shouldn’t sound like a pastiche of Tudor music. There’s no sense of looking at ［the characters］ through some stained-glass window.” In lieu of the lush, orchestral sound often found in film, Ms. Wiseman wrote music that was performed by an ensemble of roughly a dozen musicians. They play both modern instruments and historical ones, including the theorbo, a lutelike instrument, and the vielle, a type of medieval violin. The strong response to the music on social media and from fans “has been unlike anything I’ve experienced in my career,” says Ms. Wiseman.
Mr. Kosminsky felt it was important that the series’s soundscape feel contemporary. “For me, one of the triumphs of Hilary’s extraordinary books is the way they make a story set 500 years ago feel immediate, current,” Mr. Kosminsky says. For music apparently being played by on-screen musicians, “we opted for pieces that were very strictly accurate to period,” he says.
Ms. van Kampen—a composer, playwright, director and music historian— turned to her considerable knowledge of the period. She works at Shakespeare’s Globe in London. Recently, she scored Broadway productions of “Twelfth Night” and “ Richard III,” both using authentic Elizabethan music and period instruments like the sackbut and hurdy-gurdy. The Broadway audience “had never seen anything like that,” says Ms. van Kampen
“Henry the VIII’s period is extraordinary, because it’s when everything changes in music,” she adds. Before the Reformation, music was focused on the religious world, but afterward became part of secular society. “Henry adored music, and was an excellent dancer and singer and wrote music himself,” she says.
The music is authentic, says Ms. van Kampen, to the extent that is knowable. “I did faithfully try to use the music ［Henry］ would have heard as much as I could,” she says. For example, in “Wolf Hall” the vocal work “Te Deum,” by 16th-century composer John Taverner, is played for Anne Boleyn’s coronation in “Wolf Hall,” because Ms. van Kampen’s research found that it was likely played in Westminster Abbey on that date.
Even the filming process had aspects of the authentic. “The musicians were filmed live playing in the gallery where Henry actually walked with Anne Boleyn,” says Ms. van Kampen. “We all had goosebumps.”
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中世纪乐器和现代乐器结合。第一集还有演员拿着lutelike，soundtrack里也有lutelike的演奏。原文段落：Ms. Wiseman wrote music that was performed by an ensemble of roughly a dozen musicians. They play both modern instruments and historical ones, including the theorbo, a lutelike instrument, and the vielle, a type of medieval violin.
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