Was the score used in anything else?

The "main theme" at the very beginning when the credits role has been used in many venues, as background music for commercials, as a Christmas-type theme, and probably in films too impoverished to afford their own film composer, so they just edit-in the main theme. As far as I know, Morricone composed this theme, although the end credits state that Leo Kottke also contributed some music. And Doug Kershaw played the fiddler :) I agree that it's become very familiar, and I am assuming that Morricone did write it, rather than adapt it from some original source.

EDIT: In a post further down, obsessed movie lover writes:

They used the "Aquarium" movement from Camille Saint-Saens Carnival twice and all of the (other pieces tried to imitate it)"...

So, there it is. Probably.

I also thought it sounded familiar for some reason, I haven't done any research, but the music in the movie sounded a lot like the music playing during a scene in Disney's Beauty in the Beast, when Belle is touring the castle by herself.





"It's really human of you to listen to all my bullsh!t." -16 Candles

Part of the music seems to be used on a lot of film trailers such as the Tim Burton variety.

Its that man again!!

The opening theme composed by Ennio Morricone was heavily influenced by the Aquarium movement of Camille Saint-saëns "Carnival of the Animals". Probably you recognize it not because of re-use of what Morricone composed, but rather because so many other things share that same common heritage. (The Aquarium movement is very popular and has either influenced or been used directly in many movies and TV works.)

Here's one partial list of places the Aquarium movement has been used:

"Aquarium" is featured in the trailers for the 1994 film Only You, the 1974 film The Godfather Part II, the 1995 film Babe, the 2006 film Charlotte's Web and the 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and appears to be one of the influences on the main theme in Walt Disney's Beauty and the Beast and is especially prominent in the cue titled "The West Wing".

It is also the opening theme music to the 1978 film Days of Heaven and the opening and closing theme in the 1992 film documentary, Visions of Light.

"Aquarium" is played throughout the Simpsons episode "The Wife Aquatic", and can be heard in the episode of The Ren and Stimpy Show entitled "The Cat That Laid the Golden Hairball".

It is also heard in the video game Crash Tag Team Racing, and along with "Swan" is part of the soundtrack of the video game Burnout Paradise (2008 edition).

It is also used in the film Impressions de France, shown at the French theater in EPCOT's Showcase of Nations (see Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

A surf-rock version of "Aquarium" covered by Dick Dale was used as the theme song of the Space Mountain roller coaster at Disneyland in California from 1996 to 2003. This same version was featured in the game Walt Disney World Quest: Magical Racing Tour.

YES…..the DOH wheat field fire music was lifted from THE GOOD THE BAD & THE UGLY-when Clint and Tuco wander the desert before they find the stagecoach. Much of it is note for note, or VERY similar…...

similar music in 'The Elephant Man'