THTRFLM 2T03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21-22: Big Band, Duke Ellington, Francis Lai
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Epic films: hollywood continued to produce epic stories set in antiquity, most of them biblical stories, among these are spartacus, king of kings, cleopatra, But the magic was gone, and these films tend to be weaker both artistically and in popular appeal than those of the previous decade. Spartacus: the major exception to these generalization is. Other epics: the music for exodus sets the standard for the new epic film score. Created by ernest gold: mikkos rozsa"s score for el cid is one of the finest epic scores of the post ben-hur era, and it is arguably one of the composer"s best, though less celebrated creations. Fox 2: jarre introduces unusual sounds by including an electronic instrument (ondes matenot), a plucked string instrument from the zither family (cithare) and, calling upon his own percussion background, an. Arabian band drum (darbuka: with these musical forces, jarre creates 2 distinct types of melodies: english tunes representing the.