The Sound of Music (film) - Songs

Songs

Original Soundtrack
Chart Year Peak
position
UK Albums Chart 1965 1
1966
1967
1968

All songs have music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II unless otherwise noted. Instrumental underscore passages were adapted by Irwin Kostal.

  1. "Prelude and The Sound of Music"
  2. "Overture" (Main Titles, consisting of "The Sound of Music", "Do-Re-Mi", "My Favorite Things", "Something Good" and "Climb Ev'ry Mountain") segué into the Preludium
  3. "Preludium: Dixit Dominus", "Morning Hymn" (Rex admirabilis and Alleluia, based on traditional songs)
  4. "Maria"
  5. "I Have Confidence" (@ 18:04) (lyrics and music by Richard Rodgers)
  6. "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" (@ 37:22)
  7. "My Favorite Things" (@ 47:42)
  8. "Salzburg Montage" (instrumental underscore based on "My Favorite Things")
  9. "Do-Re-Mi" (@ 54:55)
  10. "The Sound of Music" (reprise)
  11. "The Lonely Goatherd" (@ 1:15:38)
  12. "Edelweiss" (@ 1:21:36)
  13. "The Grand Waltz" (instrumental underscore, based on "My Favorite Things")
  14. "Ländler" (instrumental based on "The Lonely Goatherd")
  15. "So Long, Farewell" (@ 1:29:43)
  16. "Processional Waltz" (instrumental underscore)
  17. "Goodbye Maria/How Can Love Survive Waltz" (instrumental underscore, incorporating "Edelweiss" and the deleted song "How Can Love Survive?")
  18. "Edelweiss Waltz" (instrumental, Act 1 Finale, based on "Edelweiss")
  19. "Entr'acte" (instrumental, consisting of "I Have Confidence", "So Long, Farewell", "Do-Re-Mi", "Something Good" and "The Sound of Music")
  20. "The Sound of Music" (Sad Reprise Incomplete)
  21. "Climb Ev'ry Mountain"
  22. "My Favorite Things" (reprise)
  23. "Something Good" (lyrics and music by Rodgers)
  24. "Processional" (instrumental) and "Maria" (Buddy Cole at the Organ)
  25. "Sixteen Going On Seventeen" (reprise)
  26. "Do-Re-Mi" (Salzburg Folk Festival reprise)
  27. "Edelweiss" (Salzburg Folk Festival reprise)
  28. "So Long, Farewell" (Salzburg Folk Festival reprise)
  29. "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" (reprise)
  30. "End Titles"

"Edelweiss", thought by some to be a traditional Austrian song or even the Austrian national anthem, was written expressly for the musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein. Originally unknown in Austria, it has been promoted heavily there ever since, especially in Salzburg.

The songs "How Can Love Survive?", "An Ordinary Couple", and "No Way to Stop It" were not used in the film version. The omission of those songs had to be approved through Richard Rodgers.

There were four extra children singing with the main ones to add more effect to their voices, including Darleen Carr, Charmian Carr's younger sister. However, these were uncredited. Darleen Carr sang Kurt's high voice, during the reprise and "sad" versions of the title song, as well as the high "Bye" in the song "So Long, Farewell", and later for Gretl in its reprise towards the end of the film.

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