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Max Steiner
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Pioneer of Original Music for Films
First serious composer of the sound era Called the father of film music One of the first to use the click track method Prolific composer Mickey-mouser |
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King Kong
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Score of movie deemed film music greatest achievement in 1930s
one of the first on screen credits of a composer Descending three-note leitmotif |
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Franz Waxman
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Most prominent german musician to contribute to film scoring in hollywood
Head of music at Universal Studios Moved to WB with Korngold and Steiner Emphasized orchestral color, chose instruments to create the sounds that would match the style of the scene |
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Bride of Frankenstein
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New standard for music in horror films
Most significant Waxman score at Universal Utilized leitmotifs for monster and bride |
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Alfred Newman
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One of the most powerful and influential musicians in the history of Hollywood music
wrote the 20th century fox logo ruled the fox music department from 39 to 60 nominated 45 times, won 9 composed 255 scores created the fox string sound liked fast vibratos forte was religious oriented scores favorite score was The Song of Bernadette |
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Wuthering Heights
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score is built around cathys theme that appears many times
Newman considers this to be among his top three best scores |
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Gone with the wind
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Bulk of the film score was based on American folk songs
Steiner used 5 orchestrators on this score and completed it in about 4 weeks time there were 11 principal themes, the most famous being the "tara" themen Selznick hired two additioanl film composers as a back up in case steuiner couldnt meet the deadline |
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Wizard of Oz
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Stotharts score won the Oscar in 39
MGM execs originally wanted to delete the song "somewhere over the rainbow". this song ended up winning for best original song at the Oscars |
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Suspicion
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Hitchcock movie where music by waxman sets mood, creates suspense and parallels the action
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Micloz Rozsa
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Great composer of concert gall works and film scoring
works can be broken up into 4 cr3eates periods 1 exotic, fantasy 2 psychological period gangster period Historical-epic period |
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The Lost Weekend
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Rozsa score which uses the theremin to enhance the main characters craving for alcohol
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Spellbound
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score by rozsa that became the first score to use a theremin supported by a full orchestra within a motion picture. The theremin was used to enhance the main characters with the color white and parallel lines
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Korngold
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Child prodigy, hailed as second mozart
first composer of international reputation to accept a Hollywood contract. He had been an internationally famous opera composer in Europe before coming to Hollywood composed only 18 scores which were either swashbuckling adventures or romantic dramas style is late romantic period |
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The Sea hawk
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regarded as Korngolds best film score
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Kings Row
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title theme considered Korngolds best-known melody from his scores
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Hermann
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Described as a "mastodon of divine conceit" because of his huge ego and violent temper
always orchestrated his own scores customized size of orchestra to fit the needs of the scene short chord cues at times instead of long melodic lines |
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Citizen Kane
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low-pitched inst5ruments to represent the smell of death
short musical cues to link scenes used music sparingly |
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The Killers
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Title theme became dragnet theme
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High Noon
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caused a shift toward popular songs in film scores
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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landmark score by alex north using jazz
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The man who knew too much
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remake of an earlier Hitchcock film of the same name. Hermann makes a cameo appearance playing himself as a conductor leading the London symphony orchestra in a performance of the storm clouds cantana by Aurthur Benjamin.
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The Ten Commandments
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score that launched Bernsteins career.
most prominent music theme heard throughout the film deals with deliverance out of bondage faster music kept the slow pace of the film moving briskly |
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Forbidden Planet
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first all-electronic score.
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The Spirit of St Louis
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one of Waxmans best
music used to fill void left by lack of dialogue monotonous ostinato represents fatigue |
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The Big Country
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w One of two western prototype scores. This score was by Jerome Moross. The Blanco canyon sequence uses the ostinato pattern to build suspense. The main title sequence uses a “hoe” down-like ostinato to convey a western flavor. This score uses the pentatonic scale, syncopation, and melodies based on triads (triadic melodies).
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Vertigo
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Hermanns favorite score
swirling sound created by broken diminished 7th chords |
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Journey to the center of the earth
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5 organs used, one cathedral 4 electronic
Serpent instrument used in this film |
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The Nun's Story
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waxman based part of this score on Gregorian chant source material
utilized the 12-tone row technique strings play pizzicato (plucking instead of using the bow) |
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Ben-Hur
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Considered Rozsa's greatest score and one of the greatest movie scores of all time.
made rozsa the expert of scores for historical settings |
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Patton
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Goldsmith uses the echoplex with a triplet figure in the trumpets to represent reincarnation
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The Sting
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Hamlisch won an oscar for arranging the music of dead black composer Scott Joplin, known as king of ragtime
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Rocky
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Launched career of Bill Conti
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Star Wars
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marked a resurgence in full scoring for movies
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Saturday Night Fever
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launched disco craze
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Altered States
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An innovative avant garde score by John Corigliano that contains new sounds never heard in any film score up to that time. Corigliano employs almost every modern convention known to 20th-century composers such as multi phonics, microtones, texture music, and the like.
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Witness
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An all synthesizer score by Maurice Jarre in which the electronics give us an icy cold quality used to represent the standoffish quality of the Amish people. The barn raising sequence is particularly noteworthy in his approach of using the style of a passacaglia.
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Batman
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This is the dark and moody score that launched Danny Elfman as a mainstream film composer. The score was inspired by the music of Herrmann.
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Dances with Wolves w
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An Academy award-winning score by John Barry that showcases his homophonic style. This is the longest score that he has written for a movie.
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Schindler’s List
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Since Williams considers the dialogue as part of the score, this musical score is near perfect in its ability to interweave within the fabric of the dialogue. He won an Academy Award for this score.
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Stargate
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British composer David Arnold composed a score that pays tribute to the symphonic traditions of Star Wars and Lawrence of Arabia. Arnold had been cleaning cornflake ovens in England before being discovered. He relied on a wordless choir for added color.
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Forrest Gump
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Alan Silvestri wrote a childlike piano leitmotif to represent the childlike innocence of Forrest Gump. There are also other leitmotifs such as the running theme and Jenny’s theme.
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Independence Day
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David Arnold gave us a score that conveys the feeling of patriotism by writing a patriotic march. He represents the aliens from space by spelling out the word “DIE” in Morse code by using African and Japanese drums.
This score shows a lot of influence from the music of John Williams and Korngold. |
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Emma
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A landmark score because this was the first time a score written by a woman won the Academy Award. The composer was Rachel Portman from England. Her music captures the delicate and subtle qualities of insight, wit, and gentle empathy as well as the unspoken interplay between characters, the misunderstandings, the jealousies, and deceits.
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Titanic
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Horner has given us a score comprised of synthesizer, vocals, and orchestra to create a timeless quality. He uses ethnic instruments to give the score its Irish flavor. The haunting solo voice cries out over the ocean the theme of Rose. Horner wrote each theme so that they could be heard separately or together.
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The Matrix
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futuristic score that contains many modern compositional techniques used by concert hall composers such as texture music, minimalism,
polytonality, polyrhythmic sections, and other devices of the postmodern style. Composed by Don Davis. |
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The Sixth Sense
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A score by James Newton Howard that concentrates on creating a scary atmosphere by using electronics, string harmonics, texture music and a wordless choir.
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Thomas Newman-
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son of Alfred Newman. He has been responsible for a new style of film composing that is emerging. Instead of using leitmotifs and other recognizable themes, he creates sonic shadings (atmospheres) using longs rich chord clusters and a “muted” piano.
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Hans Zimmer
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Effective German born composer who has been composing memorable scores for movies such as The Lion King and Gladiator. The amazing thing is that he does not know how to read music.
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Duduk
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an Armenian clarinet used in many recent scores such as Gladiator and the Passion of Christ, composed by John Debney.
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