Theme music

A Music Difference Music is personal and full of emotions. Therefore everyone has their own opinion on what is considered a good music genre. As for movies and their soundtrack albums overall, a great movie soundtrack comes down to the theme it creates, how it moves people emotionally, the use of songs with lyrics or without lyrics, and the use of covers or remixes. Composers like Theodore Shapiro use music to make movies more alive and have a deeper impression. Shapiro used his talent as a…

this movie it would not be nearly as funny. Sound is a key aspect of what makes this movie hilarious and relatable to older generations even though it is a simple cartoon. The diegetic creates continuity with in the movie; musical passages became a theme of the movie revealing so much about characters and subjects with in the movie. Rhythm is the most complex feature of sound. Rhythm involves a beat, a pace, pattern, and stronger/weaker beats. Rhythm created continuity with in the movie,…

to pursue a career in composing music and playing the piano but was unable to get scholarships from many colleges. This disappointed him, but he was left with an amazing opportunity to play the organ. Through this experience, Holst heard the music of Arthur Sullivan, which inspired him to compose his first composition, Lansdown Castle. Over time, Lansdown Castle became very popular and Gustav Holst was highly respected by other people, so he started to write new music such as The Planets, scored…

COMPOSER COMPARISON HANS ZIMMER’S PROFILE

Zimmer was 1st introduced to film music in London during collaboration with Stanley Myers for the film “My Beautiful Laundrette”. He then started working on his own solo projects which became a success, mastering the use of combining old and new musical technologies. He got his 1st break in 1988 when he was asked to score Rain Man for Barry Levinson. This was his 1st film to win an Oscar for Best Picture of the Year and earned him his 1st nomination…

Additionally, when meeting Han Solo and Chewbacca for the first time in the film the music is soft and calming. The meeting is like seeing old friends from your past and the softness of the stings and horns reminds the audience of this relationship. This meeting for the audience is important since it is the first time we have seen these characters in the Star Wars universe in over 30 years. One of the main musical themes “Follow Me” is fast and loud that relates to the action sequences in the…

their feelings through their art by creating a theme for the piece. Art has been around for ages, therefore many pieces of art, regardless of their medium, can share a theme. The pieces chosen for this project are First Abstract Watercolor by Wassily Kandinsky, “Yes You Can” by Donnie McClurkin, “Climb ‘Til Your Dreams Come True” by Helen Steiner Rice, and The Secret Life of an American Teenager. All four of these pieces of art share the common theme that when you focus on possibilities, new…

Film Music dunnnn dun. dunnnn dun. dunnnn dun. dunnnn dun. dunnn dun. dunnn dun. dunn dun. dunn dun. 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…

December 28, 1971) was an Austrian-born American composer of music for theatre and films. He was a child prodigy who conducted his first operetta when he was twelve and became a full-time professional when he was fifteen. He worked in England and then came to New York to work on Broadway. He moved to Hollywood in 1929 and became one of the first composers to write music scores for films. Steiner is referred to as "the father of film music" and is considered one of the greatest film score…

became one of the best composers of the 20th century. He was an only child who lived a privileged life. His mom taught him piano at the age of three while his father taught him chess. When he turned five years old his mother furthered his passion in music by helping him write his first piano composition, ‘Indian Gallop’. When Prokofiev was nine years old, he wrote, ‘The Giant.’ At age 13 he went on to study at St. Petersburg Conservatory where he got the chance to study with Russian composer,…

An Analysis of Music in the Creation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth Music is a part of daily life, and it makes up enormous sections of cultures around the world. J.R.R. Tolkien, in creating his own world, made certain that the aspect of music was still deeply engrained within his fictional works. Music is used to further deepen the plots, enhance the characters’ emotions, and to give life to a world that to him was as precious as our own. So the question arises: In what ways and to what…