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Leprechaun 1 Soundtrack

Here's the text of the booklet:

LEPRECHAUN...THE SCORE

The director, Mark Jones, and myself started working together on "The Adventures of Superboy" along with Ilya Salkind. Many of these episodes had small, seemingly harmless, yet ultimately menacing creatures similar to Leprechaun. Thus, I had to start creating musical motifs and themes which were both dangerous, yet at the same time playful, and above all not too big. When Mark called me to do Leprechaun, I immediately went out and bought a ton of Irish music, traditional as well as contemporary. That's when the first real problem cropped up. These guys almost never write a tune in a minor key. Even Danny Boy, which is very sad, is in major! So far as musical motifs went, we had to decide to stay away from anything blatantly Irish. The Irish flavor was to be maintained by using the piccolo as a lead instrument throughout the score. As I got into writing the different themes for the picture I started leaning more and more towards doing the main theme in three. This would help the playful aspect of the character as well as add to the Irish feel. One thing I particularly like about the main Leprechaun theme is that it's not really in three. It feels like three, yet every fourth bar is 4/4. To me, this keeps things from getting too happy and sing-songish. Another of my favorite themes is the one for Ozzie and Alex. The melody is simple for the child-like aspect but the orchestration is more complex, hopefully giving a sense of wonder and magic appropriate to two kids finding a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.

Leprechaun was a great project to work on because the character's personality is so multi-faceted. This allows the music to have so many different layers and textures, rather than just one or two themes that are constantly replayed throughout the picture. For this I have to give Mark Jones the credit, because ultimately a film score is just a reflection of the film itself, and if there's nothing good to reflect then chances are the music is not going to be very interesting either.

-- Kevin Kiner

LEPRECHAUN SOUNDTRACK

  1. Main Title (2:37)
  2. O'Grady (3:24)
  3. The Crate (2:29)
  4. Ozzie Attacked (4:06)
  5. Rainbow (1:04)
  6. Ozzie and Alex (:53)
  7. The Cat (2:46)
  8. Endless Chase (7:46)
  9. Bear Trap (4:34)
  10. The Truck (3:30)
  11. Rambo (4:51)
  12. The Gold (2:04)
  13. The Fence (3:16)
  14. Hospital Chase (3:37)
  15. Clover's End (7:39)
  16. Leprechaun (2:13)
Total time: 57:09

-- Composed and conducted by Kevin Kiner