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The heavy sound of bows dragging across full basses, pulling from them one of the lowest notes in their register. A quick up-stroke, bringing out a pitch only just slightly higher than the first. The audience is on the edge of their seats waiting for the monster, the villain, the antagonist, the inevitable. They know that the evildoer of this tale will be making an entrance soon; and how do they know? It’s simple: the Jaws theme is playing.
The theme song for Jaws falls under the film music category. Film music is “Music used in a film to accompany the action and create atmosphere”. Film music goes by many names, such as background score, background music, film music, or incidental music. “Film music falls into two broad categories: music contained within the action, and background music amplifying the mood of the scene and/or explicating dramatic developments and aspects of character”(Cooke 797).Film music is known to set the mood; For example, in a love movie a romantic violin solo might come on as soon as both love interest share a passionate kiss in the rain. In another instance is when there’s a battle scene in the …show more content…
“Aaron Copland is an american-award winning composer, Author, Conductor, Lecturer, and Educator”. Some of his most famous works have been Of Mice and Men, The Heiress, and Something Wild. Another very well known composer of today’s film music is John Williams. John williams has been nominated for over 40 Grammy’s and has won 5. You might know some his works, such as, Jaws, Lost in Space, Fiddler on the Roof, Tom Sawyer, and some of the Star Wars movies. Those are just two of the many great composers of film music, but they both have contributed to the history of film music and has set a standard for future film music
The heavy sound of bows dragging across full basses, pulling from them one of the lowest notes in their register. A quick up-stroke, bringing out a pitch only just slightly higher than the first. The audience is on the edge of their seats waiting for the monster, the villain, the antagonist, the inevitable. They know that the evildoer of this tale will be making an entrance soon; and how do they know? It’s simple: the Jaws theme is playing.
The theme song for Jaws falls under the film music category. Film music is “Music used in a film to accompany the action and create atmosphere”. Film music goes by many names, such as background score, background music, film music, or incidental music. “Film music falls into two broad categories: music contained within the action, and background music amplifying the mood of the scene and/or explicating dramatic developments and aspects of character”(Cooke 797).Film music is known to set the mood; For example, in a love movie a romantic violin solo might come on as soon as both love interest share a passionate kiss in the rain. In another instance is when there’s a battle scene in the …show more content…
“Aaron Copland is an american-award winning composer, Author, Conductor, Lecturer, and Educator”. Some of his most famous works have been Of Mice and Men, The Heiress, and Something Wild. Another very well known composer of today’s film music is John Williams. John williams has been nominated for over 40 Grammy’s and has won 5. You might know some his works, such as, Jaws, Lost in Space, Fiddler on the Roof, Tom Sawyer, and some of the Star Wars movies. Those are just two of the many great composers of film music, but they both have contributed to the history of film music and has set a standard for future film music