You may not be one to memorize wordless music, but if you listen to it and hear it somewhere else later, you will likely remember exactly where it came from. We feel the leaves blowing in the wind as angelic voices glide over hymns, the earth below us tremble with the steps of a giant carniverous 'Sharptooth' and sheets of earth break apart with the pounding of a great divide. Horner, The London Sympony Orchestra and The King's College Choir of England bring an all-encompassing sense of wonder.
So full of beauty is it, so commanding of our attention, that it works without the visual footage in the same way the classic music behind Fantasia does.
'The Land Before Time' would hardly have come across as eloquently and mystical had it not been for James Horner's spectacular orchestral score which in another time would have made many classical greats take notice.
