Once upon a time, a masterpiece

1968 was a landmark year in the history of manners, song and cinema. With Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West), Sergio Leone no longer had to prove the strength of the Italian Western, which had appeared five years earlier and of which he was undoubtedly the greatest director.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, in 1966, had already ushered in the genre's apogee. The appearance of close-ups at the very beginning of the film was enough to consider Sergio Leone's art a cinematic revolution. However, it would be foolish not to explain these masterpieces, at least in part, by Ennio Morricone's music.

It's impressive to see how important film music became during these years, how it reflected history and emotions, how it conditioned feature films. We mustn't forget that Leone and Morricone were classmates, and that the music