Henry Mancini

**Enrico Nicola "Henry" Mancini** () adalah seorang komponis, konduktor, dan pengaransemen Amerika, paling dikenang untuk film dan sejumlah televisi. Dia memenangkan sejumlah rekor Grammy Awards (20), ditambah Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award secara anumerta pada 1995. Karya-karyanya yang paling terkenal meliputi tema jazz-idiom untuk serial film *[[The Pink Panther]]* (kelak lagu tersebut juga digunakan sebagai lagu tema film Warkop DKI), serial televisi *[[Peter Gunn Theme]]*, dan kembali mendapatkan Academy Awards untuk lagu "Moon River" dari film Blake Edwards *[[Breakfast at Tiffany's (film)|Breakfast at Tiffany's]]* dan "Days of Wine and Roses" dari film Edwards' *[[Days of Wine and Roses (film)|Days of Wine and Roses]]*.

## Awal kehidupan
Mancini lahir di lingkungan Little Italy di Cleveland, Ohio, dan dibesarkan di dekat Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, di kota baja Aliquippa Barat, Pennsylvania. Orang tuanya beremigrasi dari Abruzzo wilayah Italia. Ayah Mancini, Quinto, adalah seorang buruh pabrik baja, yang membuat anak satu-satunya mulai belajar piccolo pada usia delapan tahun. Ketika Mancini berusia 12 tahun, ia mulai les piano. Quinto dan Henry bermain seruling bersama-sama di band imigran Aliquippa Italia, "Sons of Italy". Setelah lulus dari Sekolah Tinggi Aliquippa pada tahun 1942, Mancini belajar di sekolah ternama Juilliard School of Music di New York. Pada tahun 1943, setelah sekitar satu tahun di Juilliard, studinya terganggu ketika ia direkrut menjadi Angkatan Darat Amerika Serikat. Pada 1945, ia berpartisipasi dalam pembebasan sebuah kamp konsentrasi di selatan Jerman.

## Karier

## Kematian
Mancini meninggal karena kanker pankreas di Los Angeles pada 14 Juni 1994. Mancini meninggalkan seorang istri (berusia 43 tahun, penyanyi Virginia "Ginny" O'Connor) dan tiga anak.

## Diskografi
### Singel hit

### Album

* *The Versatile Henry Mancini*, Liberty LRP 3121
* *The Mancini Touch*, RCA Victor LSP 2101
* *The Blues & the Beat*, RCA Victor LSP-2147
* *Mr. Lucky Goes Latin*, RCA Victor LSP-2360
* *Our Man in Hollywood*, RCA Victor LSP-2604
* *Uniquely Mancini*, RCA Victor LSP-2692
* *The Best of Mancini*, RCA Victor LSP-2693
* *Mancini Plays Mancini*, RCA Camden CAS-2158
* *Everybody's Favorite*, RCA Camden CXS-9034
* *Concert Sound of Henry Mancini*, RCA Victor LSP-2897
* *Dear Heart and Other Songs*, RCA Victor LSP-2990
* *Theme Scene*, RCA Victor LSP-3052
* *Debut Conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra*, RCA Victor LSP-3106
* *The Best of Vol. 3*, RCA Victor LSP-3347
* *The Latin Sound of Henry Mancini*, RCA Victor LSP-3356
* *A Merry Mancini Christmas*, RCA Victor LSP-3612
* *Pure Gold*, RCA Victor LSP-3667
* *Mancini Country*, RCA Victor LSP-3668
* *Mancini '67*, RCA Victor LSP-3694
* *Music of Hawaii*, RCA Victor LSP-3713
* *Brass on Ivory*, RCA Victor LSP-3756
* *A Warm Shade of Ivory*, RCA Victor LSP-3757
* *Big Latin Band*, RCA Victor LSP-4049
* *Six Hours Past Sunset*, RCA Victor LSP-4239
* *Theme music from Z & Other Film Music*, RCA Victor LSP-4350
* *Big Screen-Little Screen*, RCA Victor LSP-4630
* *This Is Henry Mancini*, RCA Victor VPS6029
* *Music from the TV Series "The Mancini Generation"*, RCA Victor LSP-4689
* *The Academy Award Songs*, RCA Victor LSP-6013
* *Brass, Ivory & Strings* (with Doc Severinsen), RCA APL1-0098
* *The Theme Scene*, RCA AQLI-3052
* *Country Gentleman*, RCA APD1-0270 (Quadraphonic)
* *Hangin' Out*, RCA CPL1-0672
* *Symphonic Soul*, RCA APD1-1025 (Quadraphonic)
* *Mancini's Angels*, RCA CPL1-2290
* (with Johnny Mathis), *The Hollywood Musicals*, Columbia FC 40372
* *The Pink Panther Meets Speedy Gonzales*, Koch Schwann CD
* *The Legendary Henry Mancini*, BMG Australia 3 CD set

### Jalur suara
Banyak dari kita Mancini "soundtrack" sebenarnya "Music from ...", yang memungkinkan dia untuk mengatur musik yang akan lebih mudah diakses dan untuk melepaskan catatan tanpa membayar biaya studio orkestra.
* *[[The Music from Peter Gunn]]*, RCA Victor LSP 1956
* *[[Peter Gunn|More Music from Peter Gunn]]*, RCA Victor LSP 2040
* *[[Mr. Lucky (serial TV)|Music from Mr. Lucky]]*, RCA Victor LSP 2198
* *[[Bachelor in Paradise]]*, Film Score Monthly FSMCD vol. 7 Nr. 18
* *[[Breakfast at Tiffany's: Music from the Motion Picture]]*, RCA Victor LSP-2362
* *[[A Change of Seasons (film)|A Change of Seasons]]*
* *[[Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation]]*, Intrada special collection vol. 11
* *[[Experiment in Terror]]*, RCA Victor LSP-2442
* *[[Hatari!]]*, RCA Victor LSP-2559
* *[[Charade (film 1963)|Charade]]*, RCA Victor LSP-2755
* *[[The Pink Panther (album)|The Pink Panther]]*, RCA Victor LSP 2795
* *[[The Great Race]]*, RCA Victor LSP-3402
* *[[Arabesque (film)|Arabesque]]*, RCA Victor LSP-3623
* *[[What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?]]*, RCA Victor LSP-3648
* *[[Two for the Road (film 1967)|Two for the Road]]*, RCA Victor LSP-3802
* *[[Gunn (film)|Gunn]]*, RCA Victor LSP-3840
* *[[The Party (film)|The Party]]*, RCA Victor LSP-3997
* *[[Me, Natalie]]*, Columbia OS 3350
* *[[Visions of Eight]]*, RCA Victor ABL1-0231
* *[[The Great Waldo Pepper]]*, MCA 2085
* *[[Darling Lili]]*, RCA LSPX 1000
* *[[Gaily, Gaily]]*, UAS 5202
* *[[The Glass Menagerie (film 1987)|The Glass Menagerie]]*, MCA MCAD 6222
* *[[The Great Mouse Detective]]*, Varèse Sarabande VSD 5359
* *[[The Hawaiians (film)|The Hawaiians]]*, UAS 5210
* *[[Lifeforce (film)|Lifeforce]]*, BSXCD 8844
* *[[The Molly Maguires (film)|The Molly Maguires]]*, Bay Cities BCD 3029
* *[[Nightwing (film)|Nightwing]]*
* *[[Oklahoma Crude (film)|Oklahoma Crude]]*, RCA APL1 0271
* *[[The Pink Panther Strikes Again]]*, UA-LA 694
* *[[Revenge of the Pink Panther]]*, EMI 791113-2
* *[[Santa Claus: The Movie]]*, EMI SJ 17177
* *[[Silver Streak (film)|Silver Streak]]*, Intrada special collection vol. 5
* *[[Sometimes a Great Notion (film)|Sometimes a Great Notion]]*, Decca DL 79185
* *[[Son of the Pink Panther]]*, Milan 21-16461-2
* *[[Sunflower (film 1970)|Sunflower]]*, SLC SLCS 7035
* *[[The Thief Who Came to Dinner]]*, WB BS 2700
* *[[The Thorn Birds (miniseri TV)|The Thorn Birds]]*, Varèse Sarabande 30206 65642 8
* *[[Tom and Jerry: The Movie (soundtrack)|Tom and Jerry – The Movie]]*, MCA MCD 10721
* *[[Touch of Evil]]*, Movie Sound MSCD 401
* *[[Victor Victoria]]*, GNP Crescendo GNPD 8038
* *[[W.C. Fields and Me]]*, MCA 2092
* *[[Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?]]*, Epic SE 35692
* *[[Without a Clue]]*

## Filmografi

* *[[Breakfast at Tiffany's (film)|Breakfast at Tiffany's]]
* *Days of Wine and Roses
* *[[Experiment in Terror]]*
* *[[The Pink Panther (film 1963)|The Pink Panther]]
* *Charade Universal Studios
* *[[A Shot in the Dark (film 1964)|A Shot in the Dark]]
* *The Great Race*
* * Arabesque*
* *Wait Until Dark (film)*
* *Frenzy (Rejected Score)
* *[[The White Dawn]]
* *The Return of the Pink Panther
* *[[Silver Streak (film)]]
* *The Pink Panther Strikes Again
* *[[Revenge of the Pink Panther]]
* *Victor Victoria
* *[[Trail of the Pink Panther]]
* *Curse of the Pink Panther
* *[[The Great Mouse Detective]]* – Walt Disney Pictures
* *[[Ghost Dad]]* – Universal Studios
* *[[Tom and Jerry: The Movie]]* – Turner Pictures
* *[[Son of the Pink Panther]]
* *Blind Date (film 1987)

## Bibliografi

* Mancini, Henry: *Sounds And Scores: a practical guide to professional orchestration* (Book on orchestration of popular music, 1962)
* Mancini, Henry: *Did they mention the music?* (Autobiography, with Gene Lees, 1989)
* Thomas, Tony: *Music For The Movies* (1973)
* Thomas, Tony: *Film Score* (1979)
* Larson, Randall: 'Henry Mancini: On Scoring Lifeforce and Santa Claus' (interview)(in: *CinemaScore*, #15, 1987)
* Büdinger, Matthias: 'An interview with Henry Mancini' (in: *Soundtrack*, vol. 7, No. 26, 1988)
* Büdinger, Matthias: 'Henry Mancini' (in: *Soundtrack*, vol. 13, No. 50, 1994)
* Büdinger, Matthias: 'Henry Mancini remembered' (in: *Soundtrack*, vol. 13, No. 51)
* Büdinger, Matthias: 'Whistling Away The Dark' In: *Film Score Monthly*, # 45, p.&nbsp;7
* Büdinger, Matthias: 'Henry Mancini 1924–1994' In: *Film Score Monthly*, # 46/47, p.&nbsp;5
* Büdinger, Matthias: 'Feeling Fancy Free' (in: *Film Score Monthly*, vol. 10, No. 2)
* Brown, Royal S.: Overtones and undertones – reading film music (1994)

## Referensi

## Pranala luar

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* Henry Mancini, Space Age Pop
* A Henry Mancini discography
* Joe Reisman scores, 1945–1986 Music Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
* Henry Mancini, Soundtrackinfo
* A Mancini anthology
* Memories of Henry Mancini
* The story behind the making of the music from Peter Gunn, including interviews with the musicians and sound engineers 
* Henry Mancini interview recorded 5.9.1968 on the Pop Chronicles