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Feb 24, 2012 · This set the stage for 1927’s The Jazz Singer, the landmark film that featured Al Jolson in blackface, singing hits old (“Mammy”) and older (“My Gal Sal”)—50-odd years before The Big Chill, the movie soundtrack as a collection of feel-good hits, was born. 32 Bars of Schmaltz. With all the studios in the songwriter sweepstakes, the ...
Oct 27, 2005 · Music journalist Ashley Kahn talks to filmmaker Cameron Crowe and others about the changing nature of movie soundtracks. Original music is out, while compilations of popular hits are in.
- The Silent Era
- The Golden Age
- Film Music Branches Out
- Pop, Jazz and Westerns
- Synths and John Williams
- More Synths, More Fun
- The Kitchen Sink
During the silent era, films music is provided by each individual theater, either by phonograph or as performed live by flesh-and-blood musicians. In the later case, either a pianist improvises to the film or a small ensemble of musicians performs a classical piece, in the background, as the film plays. But! Once the ability to synchronize music an...
This is a unique period in the history of film scoring. Exploding with creativity, music written for the movies consistently matches the artistry of the films themselves. Composers during this period primarily come from backgrounds in concert music, and almost exclusively write orchestral pieces. Here are a few highly influential composers from the...
1951.A Streetcar Named Desirefeatures a hybrid symphonic-jazz score by composer Alex North. This is a major step forward for film music, moving Hollywood film scoring away from its prior, exclusively European sound. 1952. High Noonfeatures the song “Oh My Darling,” which proves instrumental in the commercial promotion of the film. Following the suc...
Elmer Bernstein’s score for The Magnificent Seven (1960) and Ennio Morricone’s work on Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy(1964-966) are among several new, now-classic Western scores. Jazz composers Henry Mancini and Lalo Schifrin—best known, respectively, for The Pink Panther film series (1963 onward) and CBS’s Mission Impossible (1966-1973)—do their p...
In the 1970s New Hollywood era, film music heads in two concurrent, divergent directions with the incorporation of synthesizers and a return to classic scoring. 1973. Director/composer John Carpenter’s synthesizer score for Dark Star expands the soundtrack world beyond symphonic, jazz and pop music, introducing a brand new vocabulary of computerize...
The 1980s are full of song-laden soundtracks, like the ones for Flashdance (1983) andFootloose (1984). Elsewhere, orchestral scores play second fiddle, so to speak, to the original songs featured like Ghostbusters (Ray Parker Jr.) and Back to the Future (Huey Lewis). John Williams continues the Golden Age tradition with the iconic scores for E.T. (...
As film scoring has grown into its own distinct art form, movies have continued to incorporate almost every genre of music imaginable. While symphonic scores remain popular, there are plenty of projects that eschew orchestral music altogether. The proliferation of synthesizers in the 1980s, and later digital audio workstations and virtual instrumen...
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Over the last 30 years, Karyn Rachtman has brought her taste and business savvy to some of the most iconic soundtracks of all time: Clueless , Pulp Fiction , Reality Bites , Romeo + Juliet ...
Dec 9, 2021 · 36. Trouble Man. Trouble Man always takes me back to Marvin Gaye’s performance of the title song during his 1974 concert at the Oakland Coliseum. Years after the death of his onetime lover Tammi ...
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Mar 11, 2024 · Since silent films became 'talkies', music wasn't far behind. For over 100 years, movie songs and soundtracks have been a hugely important part of any Hollywood hit. We've collected 100 of the very best music moments in film history to create the ultimate playlist and countdown for any cinema and music lover.
Dead Presidents, Vol. 2. Desperate Teenage Lovedolls (soundtrack) Destination Berlin. Dick Tracy (orchestral score) Diên Biên Phu (soundtrack) Downhill City. The Draughtsman's Contract (soundtrack) Drawing Restraint 9 (album) Dream, After Dream.
