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the godfather |
- An effective score by Nino Rota that was disqualified forAcademy Award consideration because parts of the score had already been used ina previous Italian movie. - Rota used the sound of the mandolin tocreate the atmosphere of the island of Sicily and the Mafia. |
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american graffiti |
an excellent example of a compilation score that used existing pop songs of the 1950s and 1960s to provide atmosphere of time and place |
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jaws |
- This film launched the careers of Steven Spielberg andcomposer John Williams. - Although Williams had done a couple dozen films beforethis one , this was the first time Williams had won the Academy Award for his ownmusic. - The now famous two-note motive for the great white sharkattacks is universally famous. - It helped to make moviegoers all over realizethe power of a good film score. |
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The Omen |
- This is the first and only Oscar for Jerry Goldsmith. - Somecall this the prototype for Satanic movies. -His “Ave Satani” is reminiscentof Carl Orff’s “Carmina burana.” - The music is used sparingly, so that itwill have a more major impact upon its arrival. |
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rocky |
- the main theme from this fil is in the form of a fanfare and is one the most recognizable themes taken from any film - it launched the career of composer Bill Conti |
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Star Wars |
- A film score with an “old-fashioned” Korngoldkind of feel. - This is a landmark score by John Williams that helped toresurrect interest in the full symphonic score once again at a time when thattype of score had gone out of fashion. - This film score contains leitmotifs forall of the major characters except Han Solo. |
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Saturday Night Fever |
this films score launch the disco craze |
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Altered states |
- An innovative avant garde score by John Corigliano that containsnew sounds never heard in any film score up to that time. - Corigliano employsalmost every modern convention known to 20th-century composers suchas multi phonics, microtones, texture music, and the like. |
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Poltergeist |
- This is a very diverse score by Goldsmith,containing the new sounds of rub rods, the childlike lullaby for Carol Anne, aswell as the sound of strings playing in an impressionistic style and the almostatonal renderings in some of the most hair-raising scenes |
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Witness |
- An all synthesizer score by Maurice Jarre inwhich the electronics give us an icy cold quality used to represent thestandoffish quality of the Amish people. - The barn raising sequence isparticularly noteworthy in his approach of using the style of a passacaglia |
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Glory |
- One of James Horner’s finest efforts. - Unfortunately, the members of the motion picture academy rejected this scorefor consideration because it was felt that Horner’s score was too much likesome of the temp track material to be considered “original”. |
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Batman |
This is the dark and moody score that Danny Elfman as a mainstream film composer - The score was inspired by the music of herrmann |
