Secret Original Soundtrack is the soundtrack album for the 2007 Taiwanese

Cinema of Taiwan

The history of Chinese-language cinema has three separate threads of development: Cinema of Hong Kong, Cinema of Mainland China and Cinema of Taiwan . Taiwanese cinema grew up outside of the Hong Kong mainstream and the censorship of the People's Republic of China.Taiwanese cinema is deeply rooted...

 romance film

Romance film

Romance films are love stories that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate involvement of the main characters and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus...

, Secret

Secret (2007 film)

Secret , is a 2007 Taiwanese romance film. It is the directorial debut feature film of Taiwanese musician Jay Chou, who also stars as the male lead and co-wrote the movie.The Secret Original Soundtrack was released by JVR Music on 13 August 2007....

, directed and co-written by Jay Chou

Jay Chou

Jay Chou is a Taiwanese musician, singer-songwriter, music and film producer, actor and director who has won the World Music Award four times. In 1998 he was discovered in a talent contest where he displayed his piano and song-writing skills. Over the next two years, he was hired to compose for...

; starring Chou, Kwai Lun-mei

Kwai Lun-mei

Kwai Lun-Mei is a Taiwanese actress. She started her acting career in the movie Blue Gate Crossing as Meng Ke Rou. Lun-Mei then appeared in a few more movies before she went on to gain more recognition in the movie Secret directed by Jay Chou, which Kwai acted as the female lead, Lu Xiao Yu with...

, Anthony Wong and Alice Tzeng

Alice Tzeng

Alice Tzeng was born on 22 April 1984. She is a Taiwanese Golden Horse Award nominated actress.-Career:Alice debuted as a model and starred in a few advertisements. She also appeared on Taiwanese entertainment show Guess Guess Guess hosted by Jacky Wu....

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The album was produced by Chou, released on 13 August 2007 by JVR Music and distributed by Sony Music Taiwan. It was released as a limited edition with a 100-page booklet containing 50 photos from the film.

Album

The album contains 21 instrumental tracks composed or rearranged by Chou and Thai musician Terdsak Janpan and four theme songs, including "不能說的祕密" (Secret), a Brit-style rock ballad performed by Chou. The track "鬥琴" (Piano Duel Medley) was rearranged by Chou based on Chopin

Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....

's Waltz in C-sharp minor and Étude Op. 10, No. 5 with an introduction by Zhan Yuhao. "The Swan" is a piano concerto

Piano concerto

A piano concerto is a concerto written for piano and orchestra.See also harpsichord concerto; some of these works are occasionally played on piano...

 performed by Chou and Evergreen Symphony Orchestra

Evergreen Symphony Orchestra

The Evergreen Symphony Orchestra is a Taiwanese orchestra founded by Chang Yung-Fa Foundation of Evergreen Group in 2001. The orchestra is featured by bringing up talented Taiwanese players and promoting Taiwanese folk music...

 based on Le cygne

Le Cygne

Le Cygne is a scholarly journal, published once a year, in April, by the International Marie de France Society.It is included in the Modern Language Association International Bibliography database....

, the 13th movement of The Carnival of the Animals

The Carnival of the Animals

Le carnaval des animaux is a musical suite of fourteen movements by the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns. The orchestral work has a duration between 22 and 30 minutes.-History:...

 by Camille Saint-Saëns

Camille Saint-Saëns

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...

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Several instrumental tracks were used as a basis for songs released in Chou's eighth album On the Run, "First Kiss" for "彩虹" (Rainbow) and "蒲公英的約定" (Dandelion's Promise) used the melodies of "小雨寫立可白Ⅰ" (Xiaoyu's Theme I) and "路小雨" (Lu Xiaoyu).

Reception

Secret was nominated for Best Original Score for Terdsak Janpan and Jay Chou; and "不能說的祕密" (Secret) won Best Original Song at the 44th Golden Horse Awards in 2007. The song is also listed at number 2 on Hit Fm Taiwan's Hit Fm Annual Top 100 Singles Chart (Hit-Fm年度百首單曲) for 2007; and won one of the Top 10 Songs of the Year at the 2008 HITO Radio Music Awards presented by Taiwanese radio station Hit FM.

In 2008, the album was nominated for three awards at the 19th Golden Melody Awards

19th Golden Melody Awards

Ceremonies of the 19th Golden Melody Awards were held in Taipei, Taiwan in 2008. Nominees were announced on May 22, 2008, and the award winners in 12 traditional music categories and 23 popular music categories were selected by a panel of 33 judges after four rounds of jury meetings...

, including Best Instrumental Album. It won Best Instrumental Album Producer for Chou and Best Instrumental Composer for Chou and Terdsak Janpan for "琴房" (Piano Room).

Track listing

Awards and nominations

19th Golden Melody Awards, Taiwan - 2008

Category
Best Instrumental Album Producer	Jay Chou

External links

Jay Chou discography@JVR Music