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With film soundtracks promoted by recording companies’ classical divisions, and with the sweeping orchestral scores of the likes of John Williams, Hans Zimmer and from an earlier age Bernard Hermann and Elmer Bernstein, debate continues to rage as to whether – or when – film music counts as classical. Philip Glass and John Corigliano are ...
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Short answer: Yes. I do consider film scores to be, if not classical music, then the modern equivalent of it. Composers who are considered to be unquestionably composers of "classical" music, such as Mendelssohn, wrote program music for theatrical plays that are always presented as classical music now.
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Feb 21, 2024 · Even if classical music is not audible in films, it has continuously influenced multiple film score composers -- including John Willams' Star Wars score and Danny Elfman, who is not only influenced by classical music, but has also composed great classical pieces.
Classic FM insists that film scores belong alongside the great classical works. But are they cheating their listeners?
Studying film music complicates our understanding of the word “classical.”. In musicology, classical refers to a certain period and form of music in Western culture. In film studies, classical refers to a particular style, period and industry: 1920s-1950s Hollywood and its imitators.
- Céline Murillo, David Roche
- 2021
Hold it, boys! Beethoven isn't working – try Brahms. (fred astaire, in funny face (1956)) Classical music, by which is here meant the traditional catch-all definition discussed by Royal S. Brown (1994, 39), was a staple ingredient of silent-film accompaniment, and the stylistic precepts of orchestral romanticism and impressionism subsequently ...
THE CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD FILM SCORE. Hollywood has dominated filmmaking as an institutional practice, and its model for the use of music in film has had a determining influence on the history of film music. This influence can be traced to the classical studio era, roughly from the early 1930s to the 1960s.
