MUSIC 2F03 Lecture 15: Lecture 15
5 Mar 2016
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Hitting the action during the dual (played for comedy) Woodwing water theme _similar to many operatic examples. Initial theme played primarily on bassoon and muted trumpet-comic. Sword fight same theme as little john battle more exciting / swords. Quiet variation of the peril theme as marion sees the saxons. Two themes during marion/robin dialog-second theme from opening credits- which is the love theme (or are both?) Love theme 1 for the big smooch-big strings/moment of spectacle. Love theme 2 (from opening credits) gets most dramatic statement with the reveal of richard. Links hitting the action to comedy or key moments of drama. Depression era films were often spectacular or escapist. The adventures of robin hood, lost horizon (1937), the wizard of. The 1940s: interest in stories that are more realistic . In part driven by the cynicism brought on by world war ii.
