david lee shire wrote the score for pirates of the caribbean.
who wrote the score for pirates of the caribbean?
david lee shire
pirates of the caribbean: on stranger tides (soundtrack)





























pirates of the caribbean: on stranger tides—original motion picture soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 2011 . hans zimmer, who produced klaus badelt's score for "" and composed the music for "" and "", returned to score the fourth installment of the "pirates" franchise. collaborators included rodrigo y gabriela, which are listed as featured artists, and composers eric whitacre, and geoff zanelli.





























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pirates of the caribbean: on stranger tides (soundtrack)
due to a high degree of tension among the colonial powers, most of the ships stationed in the caribbean were more concerned with engaging each other than they were with engaging the pirates of the time. however, this same time period saw a resurgence of piracy in the caribbean due to the growth of the slave trade. pirates saw the slave trade as a new lucrative source of income. they could easily capture a crew and ransom the valuable slaves that were their cargo. as the piracy increasingly interfered with the lucrative slave trade come from the caribbean, colonial powers had a changing attitude towards piracy. military presence had been growing in caribbean waters for some time, but now the royal navy especially was more concerned with the growing issue of slavery, increasing the number of ships dedicated to policing slavery from two in 1670 to twenty-four by 1700. despite increasing military power, piracy saw a brief resurgence between the end of the war of the spanish succession in 1713 and around 1720, as many unemployed seafarers took to piracy as a way to make ends meet when a surplus of sailors after the war led to a decline in wages and working conditions. at the same time, one of the terms of the treaty of utrecht that ended the war gave to great britain's royal african company and other british slavers a thirty-year asiento, or contract, to furnish african slaves to the spanish colonies, providing british merchants and smugglers potential inroads into the traditionally closed spanish markets in america and leading to an economic revival for the whole region. this revived caribbean trade provided rich new pickings for a wave of piracy. also contributing to the increase of caribbean piracy at this time was spain's breakup of the english logwood settlement at campeche and the attractions of a freshly sunken silver fleet off the southern bahamas in 1715. this last large resurgence of piracy saw a change in attitude of the colonial powers towards piracy. it had once been seen as a somewhat minor offense only punishable if suspects and evidence were taken back to europe for formal proceedings. now, the english parliament set the system of courts of vice-admiralty, appointing seven commissioners in the colonies to carry out the legal proceedings. these commissioners were chosen from naval and colonial officers who already contained a certain amount of bias towards the local pirates, instead of civilian judges. pirates were given no representation in the new courts and were, therefore, often sentenced to hang. between 1716 and 1726 approximately 400 to 600 pirates were executed. another major attitude change was the policy that if one's ship was attacked by pirates, then one must fight back and attempt to resist to the capture of their ship lest they receive six months imprisonment.
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