Though Jerome Moross (1913-1983) is best known for his film and television music, the American composer also composed works for symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles, soloists, and musical theater, as well as orchestrating scores, usually uncredited, for other composers.
Moross created distinctive themes featuring syncopation and percussion instruments that stress the ostinato rhythm. This soon became the signature element of his scores for many westerns. His best-known film score is that for the 1958 movie The Big Country, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score. He expertly captured the wide-open spaces of the unchartered old west. His theme for television's short-lived 1966 series, Lancer, is reminiscent of that score. His other works include the music for the films The Mountain Road (1951), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960), The Cardinal (1963), The War Lord (1965), Rachel, Rachel (1968), The Valley of Gwangi (1969).
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