The Hours (soundtrack)

The Hours
Soundtrack album by Philip Glass
Released	2002
Genre	Soundtrack
Label	Elektra/Nonesuch
Philip Glass chronology
The Baroness and the Pig (2002) The Hours (2002) The Fog of War (2003)

The Hours is the original soundtrack album, on the Elektra/Nonesuch label, of the 2002 film The Hours, starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. The original score was composed by Philip Glass.

Not all of the music in the film was composed specifically for it: earlier music by Glass, including the "Protest" theme from his opera Satyagraha, and the Franz Kafka inspired "Metamorphosis Two" from his album Solo Piano, were also featured and credited separately at the end of the film.

The album won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media (lost to the score of the film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers).

Michael Riesman and Nico Muhly arranged the soundtrack for piano solo. This score was published in 2003 as a 64-paged book containing most of the tracks (excluding "For Your Own Benefit", "Vanessa and the Changelings" and "The Kiss").

In 2012, Dutch harpist Lavinia Meijer released 6 tracks from the film, on her album of Philip Glass approved transcriptions "Metamorphosis / The Hours".

Track listing

No.	Song title	Time
1.	The Poet Acts	03:40
2.	Morning Passages	05:30
3.	Something She Has to Do	03:09
4.	"For Your Own Benefit"	02:00
5.	Vanessa and the Changelings	01:45
6.	"I'm Going to Make a Cake"	04:01
7.	An Unwelcome Friend	04:08
8.	Dead Things	04:21
9.	The Kiss	03:54
10.	"Why Does Someone Have to Die?"	03:53
11.	Tearing Herself Away	05:00
12.	Escape!	03:48
13.	Choosing Life	03:50
14.	The Hours	07:44
	Total time	56:43