Ice Age soundtrack by David Newman

Other soundtracks by David Newman: Ice Age, Matilda, Serenity, Heathers, Little Monsters, The Phantom, I love Trouble, The Brave Little Toaster, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, Love is Awake, Tarzan, L'Âge de glace, Love Peace Chant, The Cat in the Hat, Acoustic Chant: Ukulele Kirtan
Serenades, 5 Flights Up, The Affair of the Necklace, Leap of Grace: The Hanuman Chalisa,
Into the Bliss: A Kirtan Experience, ReBliss: Stars ReVisited, Animals United, Bill and Ted's 
Excellent Adventure, Konferenze Der Tiere, Soul Freedom, To Be Home, Travel Well, Mr. Destiny,
The Spy Next Door, and finally Stars.

The songs in the soundtrack are:
01 Ice Age: Opening Travel Music
02 Angered Rhinos
03 Humans/Diego
04 Tigers Going For Baby
05 Dodos
06 Fighting Over Melons
07 Walking Through
08 Baby's Wild Ride
09 Checking Out the Cave
10 Running from the Lava
11 Baby Walks
12 Tigers Try to Get Baby
13 Giving Back the Baby


In general Ice Age has a lot of trumpets, trombones, french horns, clarinets, flutes, percussion, and string instruments. Each piece has a slightly different instrumentation but it normally stays the same throughout. The tracks are very different through out the movie. Some of these songs are songs like Ice Age: Opening Travel Music, and Dodos has a happy march kind of feel to it where as songs like Tigers Going for Baby,   Has a fighting sort of intense danger to it, and songs like Humans/Diego, Checking Out the Cave, has a very soft and calm yet very sad feeling to it. They sound more musically challenging than technically. The songs don't have extremely hard notes or rhythms to them but they need a lot of emotion behind them to bring feelings to the movie. A specific song that shows this is Checking Out the Cave as it has a very sad and soft feeling to. Another song that shows this is Tigers Going for Baby because it has that really intense feel to it. When the composer was writing these different tracks he was trying to bring the movie to life, to have whoever watching it get so invested in the movie like it is real.

It is also fairly easy to picture what is happening throughout the piece because the musical side of the songs is very strong so it is easy to feel they emotion the band members are trying to portray. A track out of the Ice Age soundtrack that is my favorite would have to be Checking Out the Cave and Ice Age: Opening Travel Music. I like Checking Out the Cave because it is a very emotional song and the ensemble plays those emotions perfectly making you wait on their every note to hear what will happen next, and i like Ice Age: Opening Travel Music because it sounds very much like a march and happy. Overall I think this soundtrack did an amazing job of enhancing the movie because even without the movie you gain the emotion of the song so when watching the movie the emotion is enhanced twice as much.