Brave (soundtrack)


Brave is the soundtrack to the 2012 Disney-Pixar film of the same name. It was composed by Patrick Doyle and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. The soundtrack features Doyle's musical score and features two original songs performed by Scottish singer Julie Fowlis, and one original song performed by Birdy and Mumford & Sons. Walt Disney Records released the soundtrack on both CD album and digital download on June 19, 2012.
Brave was the first Disney film to feature music lyrics in Scottish Gaelic. The lullaby duet between the characters Merida and Queen Elinor entitled "A Mhaighdean Bhan Uasal ” appears on three occasions in different variations within the fabric of the score, and uniquely includes Gaelic vocals by Emma Thompson and Peigi Barker. Doyle also composed for the film, “Song of Mor’du” sung by Billy Connolly, Scott Davies, Patrick Doyle, Gordon Neville, Alex Norton and Carey Wilson. In this drinking song, Doyle and Purcell utilise a rich variety of words in the Scots language.
Doyle's original music for Brave was used in the official trailers for the film, which subsequently featured prominently in the film's score. The trailers also included a Scottish Gaelic song called "Tha Mo Ghaol Air Àird A' Chuain" sung by Julie Fowlis, taken from her album Mar a tha mo chridhe.
Brave is also the first Pixar film not to be scored by Randy Newman, Thomas Newman, or Michael Giacchino. The film along with The Good Dinosaur and Onward are currently the only Pixar films that are not scored by the three composers. Additionally, with the London Symphony Orchestra performing, this is the first Pixar film to not be scored in Los Angeles.

International versions

On its theater release in 2012, the movie numbered 43 dubbings worldwide, to which 6 more where added in the following years, raising the number of official versions to 49. However, differently from songs from Disney musical movies, in movies where the songs are only used as a background, Disney Character Voices International does not require for them to be dubbed. So, in the Arabic, Cantonese, Croatian, Estonian, German, Icelandic, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mandarin Chinese, Romanian, Serbian and Slovak dubs, the songs were left in English. The Arabic version was originally meant to have the songs dubbed, but the idea was dropped after a few attempts that brought to no convincing result. Marilou Bourdon, who performed the songs in the Canadian French versions, is also Merida's voice actor.

Track listing

All music composed by Patrick Doyle, except "Touch the Sky", "Into the Open Air", and "Learn Me Right".

Charts

Brave debuted as the highest-charting Pixar soundtrack at US Billboard since 'Cars' in 2006. Ratatouille never placed, WALL-E debuted at No. 127 and Cars 2 at No. 153. The soundtracks to Up and Toy Story 3 were only released digitally, instead of being given a traditional CD release, until 2011.
Chart Peak
position
Spanish Albums Chart33
Canadian Albums Chart70
U.S. Billboard Soundtracks2
U.S. Billboard Top 20033
U.S. Billboard Digital Albums13