MUSIC 2F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: My Heart Will Go On, James Horner, Morgan Freeman
15 Apr 2017
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Music for film & television lecture 11. Exam: 60% new stuff, 10% test 1, 10% test 2, 10% of only new readings, 60-70 questions. Greatest success came in 1997: titanic for which he won two academy awards (best original score and best original so(cid:374)g: (cid:862)my heart will go o(cid:374)(cid:863) Characterises of james horner: strong melodic composer, often works with conventional orchestra, also capable of incorporating electronic and avant-garde (modernism/atonal) sounds in his work; Period where morgan freeman was becoming a major star. The mythology of the civil war was that it was meant to end slavery. The north won and enslavery was actually abolished. Set during civil war; fought between southern and northern states to end slavery (north won, slavery abolished). During war, northern army decided to form a unit made up of former slaves as black soldiers, white officer who was in charge named robert shaw.
