MUSIC 2F03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Alexander Korda, Cinema Of The United States, Stereotype
16 Mar 2017
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The all singing, all dancing, al squeaking mouse. Walt disney"s steamboat willie (1928) music and sound effects are key with minimal dialogue: prominent melodies: steamboat bill irish folksong; turkey in the straw virtuoso performance mickey extracts sound from other animals. Coordination of music and movement was terrible. Silent film organist and orchestra director - created music for early cartoons. Helped develop click track system in which holes placed in a film create a clicking sound that conductors and musicians can hear: helps coordinate music with action became a standard process in postproduction scoring. Left disney in 1930 - 1936 worked for warner bros: composed music for looney toons and merrie melodies, music for bugs bunny, porky big, tweety bird and roadrunner. Character"s musical score incorporated children tunes, popular melodies, jazz, borrowed classics, and modern music. Explored modern compositional techniques from serialism to avant-garde. General characteristics of the classical film score were established during the middle the middle-late.
