MUSIC 2F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Last Picture Show, Major Sixth, American Film Institute
29 Mar 2017
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Planet of the apes (1968) continuation (27/03/17) It is cold, remote and disturbing but it is not random, it holds together, jerry goldsmith is using themes/little melodies of different aspects of the film. Connected to this idea of 12-tone music, as a new way of constructing musical ideas we would number all 12 notes of the chromatic scale: create a number line 1-12, 2 rules: Cannot repeat note until all 12 notes have been heard. Since the end of the 1940s, film music has been moving away from the conventions of seiner and. Korngold: they established symphony orchestra, established sound of the vienna, classical, opera starting point of film, (1) increasing influence of american composers, (2) increasing importance of popular music and modernism (atonality) Laura, man with the golden arm, james bond. Moving gradually to atonality, becoming more dissonant double indemnity, lost. Weekend saw it more so in psycho, 2001, planet of the apes.
