MUSIC 2F03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Grammy Award For Best Instrumental Composition, Charlton Heston, Science Fiction Film

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Music
• Course: MUSIC 2F03
• Professor: Simon Wood

Document Summary

Limited orchestral colours, unified score is consistently dissonant. Contrasts in mood, ranging from tender loving sound of hotel room to terror of shower. All the cues project a common disturbed quality through frequent use, both harmonically and melodically of minor seconds and major sevenths (dissonant sounds) Harsh opening chords are built on the interval of a major seventh, followed by frantic eighth notes obsessively emphasizing the half-step or minor second: stolen money and mother themes also centre on these same intervals. Famous murder theme: percussive-sounding strings with a microphone close to the instrument to make the sound more strident, cluster of minor seconds and major sevenths. Lack of contrast in a given cue: once cue begins it is repetitive and does not change moods, music remains aloof throughout and continues changing chords in a detached and neutral manner. Filmmakers began to consider a hit musical theme an essential element of a successful movie: ex.