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Psycho |
- Herrmann’s most famous score which accompanies Hitchcock’smost famous and successful motion picture. - Herrmann used an all stringorchestra to give a colorless, black and white sound to the black and whitefilm. - The use of the string glissandos in theshower sequence have become perhaps the most often imitated film music cue inthe history of cinema. - Hitchcock later remarked that 33% of the success ofPsycho was due to Herrmann’s score. |
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The Magnificent Seven |
- Some call this score by Elmer Bernstein the quintessential western score prototype. - Certainly as influential as The Big Country by JeromeMoross, the music in this film was used to give the film drive and increase theexcitement. |
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Aaron Copland |
American composer responsible for inspiring the "American Style" heard in many western scores |
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Spartacus |
- North gave us a score with a cold, brutal, and barbaricquality, heavy on brass and percussion, to accompany the many scenes with theslaves and gladiators. - He had a total of 13 months to work on this score. |
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Barabbas |
- Mario Nascimbene recorded part of his score at half the tape recorder speed for the crucifixion scene to give it its eerie-sounding quality. -This score has been an inspiration for other composers. |
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Maurice Jarre |
French composer who was a pioneer in using a combination of electronic instruments such as ondes Martenot and ethnic instruments from various countries |
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lawrence jarre |
French composer who was a pioneer in using a combination of electronic instruments such as the ondes martenor by using a british sounding march the other is sweeping panoramic arabian sounding theme for the desert he won his first oscar from this - he used the Ondes Martenot to provide atmospheric shadings for the scenes in the desert, particularly at night. |
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dr. no |
this was the first of a long line of james bond movies. there is controversy as to who wrote the now-famous james bond theme |
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to kill a mockingbird |
elmer bernsteins own personal favorite among his many scores - this score launched a more intimate approach to scoring films by using a smaller ensemble of children -the score is considered to be a perfect textbook example of how a score should work in a dramatic film |
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cleopatra |
-considered by some to be the last of the hollywood big epic films, primarily because this film was responsible for the financial collapse of 20th century fox studios - at one time it captures the essence of cleopatra, egypt and ancient rome by using some instrumental combiations known to exist back then - north even had the prop men make actual historic looking replicas of the old instruments to be photographed within the film |
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"the sound of music" film |
the movie that helped save 20th century fox from financial ruin because of its phenomenal success by playing in some theaters for two straight years |
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ennio Morricone |
- extremely prolific film composer composing more film scores than any other composer - this italian composer got his first start writing for a group of films made in italy known as "spaghetti westerns" - his scores contained experimental sounds from animals and birds and whistling and grunt noises from humans |
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planet of the apes |
- a very experimental sounding score from jerry goldsmith using both conventional instruments of the orchestra in unconventional ways - some techniques such as prepared piano, theechoplex, a bass slide whistle and the sound of steel mixing bowls being struck by a drum mallet |
