Titanic Music Analysis

The sound track that has been chosen out of the 15 tracks from the album, Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture as the focus of study is “Hymn to the Sea”, which is also the last track on both the album as well as in the film before the credits portion. The reason this track was chosen instead of the others; such as Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On, the track on the sinking of titanic and the tracks from the escalated point in Titanic film is because that track was played during the scene where Rose closes her eyes and dies in her sleep, and what happens is that her spirit went back to RMS Titanic, joining those aboard the sunken and lastly, as she reached the main lobby, Jack came down from the stairs welcoming her arrival. That was another …show more content…
Meanwhile, Prendergast (1992) stated that the main idea or purpose of having music in films is to help realize the meaning of film; it can create a dramatic or emotional value in the film through music itself. This is because by having only dialogue alone without music, it will not be able to develop psychological elements in the audiences or viewers. Hence, he mentioned that music needs to be inserted directly into the plot of the film, adding third dimension to the images or words and thus, serving itself as a neutral background …show more content…
According to Prendergast, the tempo & rhythm of music plays a big role in creating those mood & emotion changes as well as perception. Examples given is slow waltz during the romantic moments, such as the moment when the main actor look longingly and romantically at the main actress, while a quick tempo & pace of waltz is used to serve the dramatic & climax needs in the scenes. Robson also mentioned that, “Sad scene, accompanied with the slow piano solo will most probably invite the viewer to be more empathic when watching the scene. That also means that booming kettledrums and trumpets would certainly not work and will never blend well in that