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Another great achievement of Joe Hisaishi. Princess Mononoke has three divine main themes, which are heard several times on the CD. The “Legend” theme, however marvellous, in my humble opinion it is not developed in the best conceivable way: the end seems to be not as gifted as the beginning of the melody. The best theme is presented as a moody piano concert piece backed by the orchestra: “Ashitaka and San”. Just delicious. 

There are several dissonant tracks that function well in the film, but are not very enjoyable on CD, notably the battle tracks and the “Demon God” tracks. 

Unfortunately, all the pieces are quite short. At least the end credits make up for this. The music was re-released as a symphonic suite, which does not suffer from the very short tracks and is played entirely by a real orchestra. 

Track Rating

	Title	Time
1	The Tale of Ashitaka	1:39
2	The Demon God	3:48
3	Journey to the West	2:33
4	The Demon Power	0:34
5	Land of the Impure	3:00
6	The Encounter	0:50
7	Kodamas	2:27
8	The Forest of the Gods	0:39
9	Evening at the Ironworks	0:39
10	The Demon God II - The Lost Mountains	0:57
11	Lady Eboshi	2:48
12	The Tatara Women Work Song	1:27	-
13	The Furies	1:28
14	The Young Man From the East	1:25
15	Requiem	2:22
16	Will to Live	0:30
17	San and Ashitaka in the Forest of the Deer God	1:39
18	Princess Mononoke Theme Song (Mononoke Hime - Instrumental Version)	2:08
19	Requiem II	2:12
20	Princess Mononoke Theme Song (Mononoke Hime - performed by Yoshikazu Mera)	3:30	-
21	The Battle Drums	2:45
22	The Battle In Front of the Ironworks	1:26
23	The Demon Power II	2:30
24	Requiem III	0:54
25	The Retreat	1:30
26	The Demon God III	1:13
27	Adagio of Life and Death	2:08
28	The World of the Dead	1:28
29	The World of the Dead II	1:33
30	The World of the Dead III	1:05
31	Ashitaka and San	3:10
32	Princess Mononoke Theme Song (Mononoke Hime - performed by Yoshikazu Mera)	1:23	-
33	The Tale of Ashitaka Theme (end credit)	5:03
		63:12

Overall Rating

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