4. Edward Scissorhands

Edward Scissorhands:

This will always be one of my favorites. Here, along with the original CD sequence,*  we added seven bonus tracks. I don’t have a lot to say about Edward Scissorhands, as I’ve already talked about it quite a bit in the book.  The movie and the score mean a lot to me.

Here, once again, I have reluctantly included four Edward “worktapes.” These are the exact tapes I played for Tim when we were working on the score together. You’ll hear that three of them—cheesy as they may sound to the ear—are very close the final versions that went into the film. If you know them well, you may hear a few little variations that got changed before it was finished, but they are minor.  On the other hand,  “Miscellaneous (unused demo)” is another matter. These are early rough ideas in which parts morphed into the score, and other parts got lost completely.

 What you may also notice here in these worktapes, is that they are getting a little more “fleshed out” even though the orchestra sounds I had available are still very crude.  By the time I was composing Scissorhands, I was trying to put more detail into them. I was starting to render my harmonic ideas and orchestration more completely so they might sound closer to what I expect to hear from the orchestra later (as opposed to having a piano banging through to drive them on as my worktape did in Batman a few years earlier).

—DE