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Herman cont.

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Moved to London late in cReer, heart was in conducting, unsuccessful.
Welles, led to work at FOX
Number of films,standard.

Notable passage worked with Hitchcock, peak years! Does 8 movies, all time well known vertigo, psycho, the birds.

Two auteur

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East of Eden overture

Rosenmann picks up on?

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Conflict

Music signals anx, and confusion.
Teen dramatic film!

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Modernism not a new model just another extension of score.

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Theme songs.

Introduce dis. Or
Copland, rosza and Herman. ,,, know differences.

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Now to Henry Manxini (‘24-‘94)

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Most prolific film composed from post studio generation.
Arranger for dance bands,
Joined universal, transition period.
Big break touch of evil. Then
1958, universal was bought and he got the pink slip.
Ent to work for tv, Peter gunn. Worked with Blake Edward. Does pink panther films amongst others. Music.
Long standing collaboration favorite.
Spielberg and Williams have a similar long rela.
Did go back to film and known for pop jazz accessible style.

“Moon River” from breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
Don’t own rights to this theme song,

Pink panther franchise ,’64 (starts)
Thinks of ancillary mRkets. Blake Edwards dir.
Wanted whole album, more than just one song.

Subcategory of MULTI-theme score. Eg. Pink panther.
W/o word tune and second theme song for Rome. Italian idea.
“It had better been tonight. “ incidental music for album too.

Jazz strings, hooks, tunes. Made lots of money dpi the changes in institutions

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Journey to the centre of the earth ex. 1959

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Low register,, brass wododwind,s and organ, NO STRINGS.
ORCHESTRA, imagination and nonftional harmony shown.
See different colors too.

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Bernard Herman

1911-75

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East side of New York,
Interesting training, strong experimental scene, ultramodern.
Open minded individualistic, not interested in conventions, prefers to branch out,

Charles Ives. Found music, score,
Different idea of the work, not a polished idea of musicL creation,

Of ca ores. Wow, Percy granger another bizarre, person.
Friends with Copland,

1933- radio job! CBS
Conducted arranged music, composed, incidental music radio theatre, young new innovation. Dramatic declamation, bring to life imagine. LITTLE CUE pictorial vivid, effects
Freedom to hire whoever he wanted for instrumentalists. Genius at special musical effects. Ex. Read. Connection to Prokofiev studio recording, saws hammer nails used too. Fitting radio apprenticeship, dramatic, experiment, studio recording, all working fast! Intense passé about art.
Perfectionist, could be rude, lose friends,

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Now to different sound of the 60’s

First name composer

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John Barry, associated with bond series (1933-2011)
Trumpeter and arranger pop music. Claims wrote bond theme but not credited to him.

Dr. No 1962
James Bond theme in each movie plus theme song score for each.
Multiple hooks.

Born free, full blown theme song from 1966
Tuneful, words at end of film. African perc.
Also a MonotheMATIC score.

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Historical epic imp.

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1950’s collapse of the studio system
1948, legal challenge happens,
Consolidate studio entities, bought up all aspects. Theaters and prodution. Less risk. Problem is ran that this was a monopoly. Had to sell off theatre chains. After ruling.

Changed a lot of things, more risk involved. And TELIVISION starts.
Viewing practices cHnge,

Much less guaranteed profit. Studio had to dismantle infrastructure, no longer could afford. Some things.

All gone by 1960. Independant production then takes things up.
Names survive.

LEGAL CHALLENEGE
TV VIEWING

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High noon 1952 western by

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Dimitri tiomkin

First successful croos promoted theme song to be used in film scoring.

Do not forsake me my darlin.
Folky unusl instrumentation, aba + coda sections.
SPECIAL*Used monothematically, all music in film based on that score
Aside: first monothematic score Laura similar but does not have words, but became a sung version later. (1944)

FIRST SUCCESSFUL THEME SONG SCORE.
High noon 1952

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Getting serialist trainging. Modernists got this.

Fighting as finest restrictions of code.

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TEEN MRAKET YOUTH, started to have money,

Was a new market, could make money from,

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1951, the day the earth stood still

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About alien space ship lands Washington
Science fiction, orchestration:
No strings or woodwinds. So unique, theremin too. Sparkling,eeriness,

Like Strauss, primordial sound.

Cadence: major chords, tritone apart. Non tonal.

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Jerry goldsmith. (1929-2009)

Part of different kinds of modernism.

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First completely electronic background score in 1956
Forb: Golden planet. (B Barron. )

Now to planet of the apes, (1968)
Eg. Of theirs kind of modernism. Distinct from atonal, and physical percussive.

Soundscape, pointillist. Some electronic sounds too. Echoplex used. It uses twelve tone. Unconventional timbres. Bass slide shalt.e hecy use of percussion. Unique imaginative soundscape for this movie. Note atmospheric vs modernist action music.

Be able to describe goldsmiths modernist style in this score.

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Hitchcock and Herman

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Auteur, original style, in film and music combined, 8 films, 1955-65

Next gen of film makers, all called Herman up for their films, for classic style, scorseze film taxi driver last score Herman wrote,

Bipolar, arranging, manic depressive? Or choral color.

Collaborative, romantic strain modernist too. Eclectic composer when needed, like Steiner.

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Compilation score, pop ones that is, same idea as in silent era.
Institutional context? And aesthetics?

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Trend towards more than on etheme in movies esp to fill out sound track album. VARIETY OF THEMES
Splintering of styles. Scatter shots. Turn away from older to contemporary pop to pull in youth market.

The graduate (1967)
Easy Rider (1969)

Early examples of commercial success of pop compilation scores.

So no need for composer just a “music supervisor”
Need to know copyright, potential creative input. Music appropriate to supervisor,

Multiple featured musical numbers.

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Psycho Marianne running away. 12 minutes in,

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Movie reliant on music for emotion.
Pov, motion, narrative running away. Also signals forward movement, foreshadowing horror too. Reality to nightmare accompaniment,

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Aesthetic reference of French movement called

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Nouvelle vague, NEW WAVE
In the graduate.

Bonny and clude good ex.
Influences by this trend.
Wandering and drifting idea here too.
Young disaffected people.

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Healing music

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Ben hur and Christ theme,
Almost as if in his mind,

Get ester and Christ music and they are also parallel triads. Brotherly love.

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Assignment 3 q discussion

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Midge gets Mozart music, diegetic
Continuum of women music. Julie and Madeleine,
Remember falling cell. Soft, feminine vulnerable Madeleine theme.

Scotty immersed in facts, Scottie’s fantasy.
Film seducing viewer. Fascination story told on many levels.

Gender roles, agency, men doer,
Detecting music. Active passive, objectification.
Perceiver vs object,

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E of e main title, review reading!

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Conflict, pastoral, religious comes in.

Note fathers theme, in main title opening fanfare.
Then folk tune, strong musical duality between tonal atonal, pastoral vs conflict, poly stylistic idea.

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Graduate scene, how music gets used.

Emotions, placement, function.

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Fable about alienation music and screen.
Gender role, a times passive.

Song correspondence with image!
Ambiguous in this movie.

Long pause in narrative and two full songs. Film musical feel.
No diegetic noise.

Silence of sound.
April come she will. Nostalgia.

Disjunction between seen idyllic and song sad.
Characters emotions are unreadable and yet songs have strong emotions, unsure if it’s from Ben or narrator.

Ambiguous space.
Images not continuous, music is steadfast.

Scarborough fair, song doesn’t seem to correspond. song itself is vGue. Medievelesque thing.

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What happens in. 20th c changes in music

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Collapse studies rise of epic genre.

New way is to fill canvas, with larger form. And lavishness.

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Ester scene, her theme

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Long brOd, fill long time.
A and b sections, judean family of themes.
OrnMdntal.

CN contrast roman judean and masculine and feminine (ester theme) hetero love theme.

Triplet quarter trial and tribulatns motive.

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RomNtic ex of Herman,

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1945 the hangover square
London, milder mystery of insane composer. Climax piano concerto recovered memory, dark side of romNtic music, demonic.

Romantic comedy, ghost story,
Intimate innocent, love death thing.
Death scene. Note no cells, spinning out beautiful length, leads to pictorial l freedom emotion.

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Movie marking begging of blockbuster

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Jaws (1975)

Cost 8.5 million, brought in 130million.
Timed for summe exhibition,

Initiating model of carefully timed and modulated release daTe imp. COmmerecialist too.

Leads to generation that Spielberg was part of
“Movie brat” generation.

Film school homecoming literate, not a trade person, but more literate, shoal rarely. George Lucas and Martin scorsezie too.

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Herman historical characteristics Herman

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Structure, harmony, orchestration imp for Herman

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Music in block buster:
Two q: how does music contribute to sure fire audience response?
Tie in to silent era.
How does it connect to traditionalism and conservatism
One way is just style, revival of symphonic romantic score, or uphold or support conservative values.

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Ok

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Modernism,
Leonard rose an (1924-2008)
Friend of James dean, in through actor into film,

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HE USED A 12 tone score, FIRST one to use it, in a Hollywood film.
The cobweb 1955 psychological tension. Historical notes**
In same year, East of Eden 1955

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Miklos rosza (1907-95)

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Classical trained
Work w KORDA, got into Hollywood through connections. Did not start there. Had concert music and film music.
1 film with Hitchcock.

3 important film genres.

  1. FAIRYTALES
    Colorful sensuous music, matching fantasy aspect.
    Listen to theif of Baghdad
  2. Film Noir
    Sparing underscore, harsh dissonant scores. Timbre and harmony. Unclear leitmotifs. Influent on later ex. ,!!!, imp. Some compels changed steel
  3. Historical EPIC
    Bigger in 1950, did musical research for these scores.
    Be hur. Something could not see on tv
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Micheal Nyoman,

Dir. Peter greenway. Painter, narrative films, painterly.

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Prosperous books, greenway and Nyman (1991)
Recalling of tempest.

Baroque music quoting or neo-baroque.
Often Michael Nyman does this. Change instrumentation to weird instruments like sax.

Sensory overload. ,
Magician. Own primmitve Islam.d
Spirits. Invisible to everyone else.

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Torn curtain Hitchcock movie, fires Herman due to wanted pop music oriented score.

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Somets no strings sometimes only strings in herms music depending on conception.

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Leitmotiv ic structure
Now looking at exposition, juda and massala reunited
Note:

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Hear specially brother love friendship theme.
Has heroic rhythm.
Parallel triads,
Underneath special cell rhythm.

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Final is on Herman and on!

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Now to vertigo with status control
Character trajectory
Reality.

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Genre of films suitable for modernist experimental

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Science fiction, psychological drama, horror

Anything where theme anxiety alienation duality.

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Steiner like chameleon, not necessarily know it’s him but, but Herman

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Keeps stamp, know it’s him.

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Overture

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Passacaglia un characteristic of glass.

Abstraction and ecological message.

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Instead of direct correspondence.

Mutual implication.

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Interact 2-way.

Song in conjunction with story gets shapes.
Sim. To two images side by side. Now music and image.
Correspondence and irony both there!

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Summary.

New model of film musical function,

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  • Placement, long passages where nothing happens. Music video mtv passages. Framed, featured, special audible.
  • Foreground, Background.
  • How is musical form accomadated, chopped?
  • Correspondance!?

Wider array of possibilities. Getting away from standard gorbamn model. Now possibilities galore, ambiguity too. And counterpoint.

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Herman film scoring like a

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Mosaic, compressed, gooshy when needed.

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Herman has monochromatic timbre palette. Physical used and percussive. Repeated motives, cells tiny. Stacked discordance. Famous murder, music. Shock! Violent. Gestures, knife. Terror and human sounds, scary bird sounds too. Economical and primal. Ties in thematicLly. Analogous to jAws. Dissonant counterpoint. Rhythmic dislocation,

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High atonality modernism, expressionist east of Eden rose an movie style. !

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Know rosza style and decline in studio system and what happens to composition after. New avenues musically

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Nab tv market,

One way was historical epics.

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Rosze unique important style

Hungarian background

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Modal language, great for historical epic.
Melodic structure. Modular, expanding melody.
Antiphonal or respon social texture. Higher level of dissonance.

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Movie brats

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University trained
Versed in stock gambits of Hollywood.
Leads to ‘genre pastiche’ (remake film noire) raiders is a good example

Skillful ability to streamline effects for a sure fire repsonse. Formulaic ways. Manipulation

Generalized effects for Broad appeal. Conservative values a must.

Leads to
Reduced narrative complexity.

PRIMAL SYMBOLS
Stand for number of dreMs or nightmares, monster under ocean, treasure, salvation (E.T.)
Multiple meanings for different people.
Now onto music!

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Form of compilation score

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Hybrid of traditional background score.
AND
Musical genre.

Using gorbamn approaches, background for ground musical tension. And narrative and musical perforamcne.

Music has more potential for being perceived as independant. –> FORM. Eg. Born free moon river.
VEBAL MEANING
social/historical associations. ,imp. For clockwork orange. I think
Even for individual just as for culture.

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Moving to revival on romantic score,

Eg. John Williams. New Hollywood do SHATS reading!

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Dining aspects of the period.

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Touch of evil

Realism

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Ambiguous diegsis, and ethnicity.
Exposed
Meanings stereotypes.
Multi stylistic clashes

Contemporary style, meant it could be cutting edge, hip and edgy.

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(Institutional background of theme song score)

Ancillary markets

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Radio recordings, sheet music, make money off of product,
Starts in 50’s

Elmer Berstein, selling out, “”

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Minimalism avant grade music, led to commercial success cross over.

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Phillip glass.
Always interested in music therpate of various genres.
Kyinisgazhi (1988)

Did la belle et la bête sung through overdub.

Visual essay, in image and music.
Dir. Geoffrey Reggio

Ecological title, world out of balance.

Equal collab, film cut to score. Symbiotic, no dialogue,

World market appeal.

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Herman’s style, known for.

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  1. Colour, inventive orchestration (orchestral imagination)
  2. Non functional Harmonic sense, move away from fun tonal tonality, therefore
  3. Formal CELLS, modular construction
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Skip to hur and mass schism motif change

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Becomes minor version. Get tritones. Becomes symbol of hate.
Evil massala. Or hate. P5 the minor ascent,

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Michele legrand (1932-

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French, cons atory classical and pop background.

Umbrellas of cherborg (1964),
Film opera. Pop styles.

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The graduate, (1967)

Background of story. Rela to socail context.

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James dean youth market appeal. Rebel without a cause, teen angst. Postwar feeling,

Identity, psychosocial stage distinct. Films like this one.
Socail conformity overarching.

At dots to find alternative culture.

Emphasis on personL PSYC experience, not on political solution, critique of status quo, but not able to articulate future decisions codices.

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Besides leitmotives but leitstyles

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Hear a style having symbolic associatin.

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Vertigo, 1958

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Think of the cells, in film score.
Two note, step down, melodic
Oscillating arpeggios contrary motion, textural spinning.
Harmonic, minor major seventh, chord, note: psycho chord
Special timbres,

Love tune built out of cell, plunge down deep,
Pictorial, dizziness, abyss,

Cell scan hue complex, rhythmic, textural, melodic,etc.
makes things easy to edits

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E of e finale

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Father motive.

Keeps tension, not a simple reolution, suffering always there.

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Epic scale, cross steps. Canvas epic,

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Similarity to galley music,
Dissonances similar to leper chords. Dissonant.

More spectacle, own form. Featured passage of music along with spectacle. Jump to different characters.

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John Williams, little younge than Mancini.
New Yorker, (1932)

Juilliard and jazz piano training. End of studio collapse, had to work his way up!

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Did tv, in 60 started film. big break, posedin adventure. Then JAWS.
BEGINNING COLLABORATION with Spielbeg, most prolific collaboration.
26 films togethor.
Also did last Hitchcock film.

Total example of blockbuster film. Jurassic park

Star composer.

Studio player, related to like max Steiner. Reliability hard work over originality, derivative things, versatility and dict audience response, DAR

AssociTed return of symphonic scor,
Rerelease a of Steiner scores happen in 70’s note.

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Herman did not like

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Hollywood, too picky, chFed at limitations, but loved writing for film, artistically rewarding, did not like the scene.

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In 40 who changed style, historical style characteristics

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Herman,
Rosze
Copland, all new approaches to score.

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Musical modernism, is a

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Bunch of styles, progressive, from Copland on.
East of Eden, atonal and expressionist.
Steinbeck novel, wwi garden of Eden.

Many elements, nostalgia, religion, conflict (mora, class, gen. Psych)

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Addition of words, and branding of theme song, new to Hollywood music.
Qualities of a theme song score (6+)

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Featured song with text, relate to story, placement,
“No musical film but with a feature song with text. “
Economic - aim for a HIT
WORDS -what relation to narrative
Musical ‘Form’
Placement (beginning, end, integrated)
New musical styles with HOOKS

Hooks, hit,BRAND (emblematic associTion)
Ex. James Bond, moon river (ex. See sheet music says from film, = emblematic assoc. ) means it is detachable, independNt of film.

SubCATEGORIES of theme song scores,
MonotheMATIC, regular, one other to come.

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Bernard Herman and Psycho! (1960)

Masterpiece of modernist film score. Psycho!

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Tv show low budget black and white,
Capture a lot with little on big screen. Lower budget, all strings orchestra with black and white image.
Limited timbre!

Cells in prelude Opening rhythmic figure,
And 3rds and 2nds all in first four bars, dense compact beginning.

Minor major seven, same as vertigo chord.
Then a soaring tune coming out of cellular idea.

Saul bass, guy design same anatomy of a murderer

Musical and visual gestures mimicked. Gutteral. Nervous twitchy.

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E of e climax, (score printed in reading if you want it)

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Mother thought dead is alive. Take out frustration on brother.
Extreme registers, unpredictable, de centered texture, fragmented, gaps in register, ominous abyss, unpredictable.

Be describe of rosenemeny style
Part from modernist, atonal, fragmented, duality and de entered.

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Movies can do

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Big screen, color, and 3d sound.
Touting lavish huge budget, on location.
Epic importance, as it is something would not see in tv.

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Maurice Jarre (1924-2009)

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French composer with classical training.
Done a lot of different things. 
Listened to theme from dr. Zhivago '65
Lara's theme. Mandolins sounding. Added lyrics. 
Epic film,  large scale.
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Minimalist musical style

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Repetition, patterns, 
Slow formal procedures, process change. Leads to meditative or trans motoric effect. 
Cellular. 
Non-developmental. 
Cycle
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1959 Ben Hur

Like quo Vadim Jewish Christian intermingled.

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Victorian moral tale, many retellings.

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Moment of reversal, Madeleine to Judy audience now knows

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Music is specific to Judy at one point.
Stinger chord for her, disturbed Waltz. Just before flashback. Looks straight at camera. Weird. Symbolic. Change in perceiver.
No longer male gaze, Judy gaze now included.

Scottie, flaw over fantisiicngl vertigo
Judy flaw. Submission, aids in a murder.

Dizzy music with Judy, result of mental instability. Showing her own free fall

I’d manipulation is theme of film.
And fascination

Who do we identify with. Sexism, miso tropic. Satirical !

Trajectory of male character needs to restore control.
Re exerts control in violent obsessive way,

Female character destroyed female character,
John is liberated,
Extreme versions of cultural genrpdef roles. Male dominance kill women, extreme submission, so film is a satire.

C major cadences big, weirder each time

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Leper scene

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Horrible sounds, almost all stingers, and has the triplet quarter motive.

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But before

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A treat, 12’ tone score, 1974. By David Shire

The taking of Pelhome 123 opening jazz 12 tone piece.

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More about rowing galley music.

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Set piece,

Ex. Parade before chariot race.

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See email of notes on clockwork orange!

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Done!?

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7th voyage of simbad 19(58

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Regally hear the cells, starange harmonic progressions,opening tritone one,

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Examples of theme song scores, from 50’s

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“Love is a many splendor thing” (1955)

Unchained (1955) “unchained melody”

Man who knew too much, Hitchcock (1956)

73
Q

Danny elfman

A

Rock band background,
Instantly recognizable style
Tim burton movies.

Movie brats links, soaked up star film composers.

Very eccentric goofy broad comic efcts.
Slight connection to minimalism in motor ic effect.

Pee wee
Beetle juice and nightmare before Christmas!

Non traditional style of music.
Board Herman kind of non functional harmonies.

74
Q

E of e first scene.

Influence expectations.

A

Dean music is dissonant.
Leitmotiv ic and focalization, pov internal anx,
Discontinuance between music and image, amorphous motive contour representing loneliness, foil to stacked fourths violence part of cal theme.

Decentered texture. Melodic fragments, no melody and accomp.
Ambiguous wiring between tonal and atonal.

75
Q

ChArateristic of a blockbuster, starts mid-70’s

A

High cost
High technology
High speed

Akin to a thrill ride. Less complex narrative potentially. And
More ENTERTAINMENT machines! Used to develop other commodities. Tie-in

Furthered by franchises! Sequels.
Front loaded marketing blitz,
Stars, star directors,

Review the reading on this!

76
Q

Bernard meet orson Welles

A

Another maverick, work in radio, war of worlds, Martians landed thought true. Welles brings along Herman
First project CITIZEN KING
Atypical autonomy, not monitored. Composer likewise,
Imp. Herman orchestrate own music, central to own idea, needed more time though, got it! Connection tokorngold in time need. Choosiness.

Interested in cinematic sound, touch of evil will look at soon.

Marks beginning of Hollywood Carrie, 1941, citizen king, distinguished film career.

77
Q

The piano
1993
Nyman

A

Breaks style appropriate to story,
More mainstream narrative film.
Different kind of minimalism

78
Q

Set piece chariot race parade.

A

Massala theme heard. March like military,

Then Ben hur theme dotted rhythm

79
Q

Theme song scores,

Pop song with lyrics

A

Start in 50 focus will be on 60’s

So you had ollap se of studio, and now a shift to studio diversified entertainment corporation. Part of something larger. Institidutionally.

Ex. High noon 1952 western by

Dimitri tiomkin

80
Q

Music used in service of streamlined dar and conservatism.

Eg. Close encounters of the third kind,

A

Versatility in this film. Strains in film.
Modernist, chase music (Herman connection to cells), romantic music!
Stock assoicTin, and detailed Micky mousing,

Romantic transcendence.

Conservative values underlying though?
Conformist, in some but for this movie. And in this one the is the threat, leads to acceptance, only there to help. Crisis in family. Reinforce gender roles. Escape.
Alien good, critique of patriarchy fizzles out, gender roles and infantilism direstion to story, boyhood. Adventure. For Roy. Eg. Cartoon. When you wish upon a star.

81
Q

March in desert

A

All tritones

Listen for that triplet quarter mot ie I guess.
Rising chromatically in music.
Twisted Ben hur theme, also chromTicized. Jatredized.
Suffering gestures too.

Divinity w/o face. Moment of hope.
Lydian mode has tritone in Christ theme, and smooths out,
Suffering theme transformed.

Tension to release. Stinger to triad.

Levels of resolution, are many,
Bestowing water? Raindrops. Association with water.
Timbre change as well. Harsh brass to harp and strings,

Rowing galley music uses roman theme. Repetitive work theme.
Strong rhythmic connection in friendship.

82
Q

Madhouse scene. Have score handout.

A

See disloCtion in motive, twisted distorted scalar idea. Rela to psychosis,

Contrapuntal like. Dislocated counterpoint. Imitation of dialogue through music, portrayal of psychosis, split personality,

Muted strings, helf in check. Latent.
Switch of identification here too, from girl to guy. Narrative violence, reflected in music.

Music motive interact with words, mad, admitting mad. Parallelism, she we you transfer of Id.

83
Q

Ro’s 3 genres know them

A

One is fair tale, epic, film noir.

84
Q

Vertigo

A

Eb chord, atonality, a minor reference,
Then second time c major. Tonal ambiguity right away!
Ambiguous resolution

85
Q

Beneath the twelve mile reef, 1953

A

Ocean adventure.
9 harps!

Romantic yet with. New sound,

Amazing score to poor movie,

86
Q

Defining aspects of the period. After studio era.
First a review:
In past had guaranteed market, low budget movies churned out. “Programmers” = money makers b movies! leads to money for a prestige film. Studio then collapses by 1950 no guaranteed market. Competition stiffer! Different sub audiences. Trend to pursue HIT (more risk involved) pop muix. Part of this. Climax in mid 70’s leads to

A

Blockbuster! New Hollywood, means calculated blockbuster.
Revival romantic style.
John Williams (1932-)

So post-studio to blockbuster.
Cheap movies numerous, to few high cost movies.

87
Q

Stylistic variation in Hollywood film scores,

A

Progressive modern, coplan pared down,
Folk

Now onto Bernard Herman,

88
Q

How would compose 3hr epic score

Ben hur music.

A

Large scale coherence. “Families” of themes used.
Roman conquerors with themes conflict judain themes

We heardm mesala’s theme, sense of oppression
A roman theme.

Judains, sound more peaceful. Ornamented.
Ester theme.

Other guy has combined sound.

c

Family of suffering too.
Dissonant and tritone comes out. Angular idea, arrow meeting of pitches, destiny, abstract form. Imo

Destiny family.
Lydian mode,

Get inter actions across families. Interesting.

89
Q

Examples of romantic revival so cores.

A

Star Wars (1977) princess Lea leitmotif , vs militaristic pageantry. Luke and Lea motif. So note grandiose and lush both there,
Strains: apart from grandiose and lush I guess.
PLAY ON NOSTALGIA
Out of Africa (1985) comp. John Barry (does James Bond! )
Maurice (1987) comp. Richard robbins. Down by fifths and sighs,
Titanic James Horner
Exotic strain
7 years in Tibet composer Williams.
Comic
The great train robbery (1978) comp. jerry goldsmith.
Quiet consoling
The Sixth sense (1999) comp. James Newton Howard

Spectrum of intent important to take away.

Still used today, rare in studio system, feeling of old fashioned then not now.

90
Q

What does rox do to approach epic film

A 
1 Themes can be long, 
2. Groups and families of themes. 
 Including, roman, judean, suffering themes. Suffering and divine
Ester, Ben hur examples last class. 
3. Interaction bw themes. 
4. Set pieces, spectacle
5. Character transformation
6. Large range musical dramatic processes, changing shifting of themes.
All Has interpretive meaning 
Could be intervals, motives, rhythmic.
91
Q

Herman’s style, known for.

A
  1. Colour, inventive orchestration (orchestral imagination)
  2. Non functional Harmonic sense, move away from fun tonal tonality, therefore
  3. Formal CELLS, modular construction
92
Q

Steiner like chameleon, not necessarily know it’s him but, but Herman

A

Keeps stamp, know it’s him.

93
Q

Hitchcock and Herman

A

Auteur, original style, in film and music combined, 8 films, 1955-65

Next gen of film makers, all called Herman up for their films, for classic style, scorseze film taxi driver last score Herman wrote,

Bipolar, arranging, manic depressive? Or choral color.

Collaborative, romantic strain modernist too. Eclectic composer when needed, like Steiner.

94
Q

Bernard meet orson Welles

A

Another maverick, work in radio, war of worlds, Martians landed thought true. Welles brings along Herman
First project CITIZEN KING
Atypical autonomy, not monitored. Composer likewise,
Imp. Herman orchestrate own music, central to own idea, needed more time though, got it! Connection tokorngold in time need. Choosiness.

Interested in cinematic sound, touch of evil will look at soon.

Marks beginning of Hollywood Carrie, 1941, citizen king, distinguished film career.

95
Q

Journey to the centre of the earth ex. 1959

A

Low register,, brass wododwind,s and organ, NO STRINGS.
ORCHESTRA, imagination and nonftional harmony shown.
See different colors too.

96
Q

Vertigo, 1958

A

Think of the cells, in film score.
Two note, step down, melodic
Oscillating arpeggios contrary motion, textural spinning.
Harmonic, minor major seventh, chord, note: psycho chord
Special timbres,

Love tune built out of cell, plunge down deep,
Pictorial, dizziness, abyss,

Cell scan hue complex, rhythmic, textural, melodic,etc.
makes things easy to edits

97
Q

7th voyage of simbad 19(58

A

Regally hear the cells, starange harmonic progressions,opening tritone one,

98
Q

Herman film scoring like a

A

Mosaic, compressed, gooshy when needed.

99
Q

Bernard Herman

1911-75

A

East side of New York,
Interesting training, strong experimental scene, ultramodern.
Open minded individualistic, not interested in conventions, prefers to branch out,

Charles Ives. Found music, score,
Different idea of the work, not a polished idea of musicL creation,

Of ca ores. Wow, Percy granger another bizarre, person.
Friends with Copland,

1933- radio job! CBS
Conducted arranged music, composed, incidental music radio theatre, young new innovation. Dramatic declamation, bring to life imagine. LITTLE CUE pictorial vivid, effects
Freedom to hire whoever he wanted for instrumentalists. Genius at special musical effects. Ex. Read. Connection to Prokofiev studio recording, saws hammer nails used too. Fitting radio apprenticeship, dramatic, experiment, studio recording, all working fast! Intense passé about art.
Perfectionist, could be rude, lose friends,

100
Q

RomNtic ex of Herman,

A

1945 the hangover square
London, milder mystery of insane composer. Climax piano concerto recovered memory, dark side of romNtic music, demonic.

Romantic comedy, ghost story,
Intimate innocent, love death thing.
Death scene. Note no cells, spinning out beautiful length, leads to pictorial l freedom emotion.

101
Q

Herman cont.

A

Moved to London late in cReer, heart was in conducting, unsuccessful.
Welles, led to work at FOX
Number of films,standard.

Notable passage worked with Hitchcock, peak years! Does 8 movies, all time well known vertigo, psycho, the birds.

Two auteur

102
Q

Torn curtain Hitchcock movie, fires Herman due to wanted pop music oriented score.

A

Somets no strings sometimes only strings in herms music depending on conception.

103
Q

Stylistic variation in Hollywood film scores,

A

Progressive modern, coplan pared down,
Folk

Now onto Bernard Herman,

104
Q

Beneath the twelve mile reef, 1953

A

Ocean adventure.
9 harps!

Romantic yet with. New sound,

Amazing score to poor movie,

105
Q

1951, the day the earth stood still

A

About alien space ship lands Washington
Science fiction, orchestration:
No strings or woodwinds. So unique, theremin too. Sparkling,eeriness,

Like Strauss, primordial sound.

Cadence: major chords, tritone apart. Non tonal.

106
Q

Herman did not like

A

Hollywood, too picky, chFed at limitations, but loved writing for film, artistically rewarding, did not like the scene.

107
Q

Final is on Herman and on!

A

Now to vertigo with status control
Character trajectory
Reality.

108
Q

Movies can do

A

Big screen, color, and 3d sound.
Touting lavish huge budget, on location.
Epic importance, as it is something would not see in tv.

109
Q

How would compose 3hr epic score

Ben hur music.

A

Large scale coherence. “Families” of themes used.
Roman conquerors with themes conflict judain themes

We heardm mesala’s theme, sense of oppression
A roman theme.

Judains, sound more peaceful. Ornamented.
Ester theme.

Other guy has combined sound.

c

Family of suffering too.
Dissonant and tritone comes out. Angular idea, arrow meeting of pitches, destiny, abstract form. Imo

Destiny family.
Lydian mode,

Get inter actions across families. Interesting.

110
Q

In 40 who changed style, historical style characteristics

A

Herman,
Rosze
Copland, all new approaches to score.

111
Q

Historical epic imp.

A

1950’s collapse of the studio system
1948, legal challenge happens,
Consolidate studio entities, bought up all aspects. Theaters and prodution. Less risk. Problem is ran that this was a monopoly. Had to sell off theatre chains. After ruling.

Changed a lot of things, more risk involved. And TELIVISION starts.
Viewing practices cHnge,

Much less guaranteed profit. Studio had to dismantle infrastructure, no longer could afford. Some things.

All gone by 1960. Independant production then takes things up.
Names survive.

LEGAL CHALLENEGE
TV VIEWING

112
Q

Herman historical characteristics Herman

A

Structure, harmony, orchestration imp for Herman

113
Q

Assignment 3 q discussion

A

Midge gets Mozart music, diegetic
Continuum of women music. Julie and Madeleine,
Remember falling cell. Soft, feminine vulnerable Madeleine theme.

Scotty immersed in facts, Scottie’s fantasy.
Film seducing viewer. Fascination story told on many levels.

Gender roles, agency, men doer,
Detecting music. Active passive, objectification.
Perceiver vs object,

114
Q

Moment of reversal, Madeleine to Judy audience now knows

A

Music is specific to Judy at one point.
Stinger chord for her, disturbed Waltz. Just before flashback. Looks straight at camera. Weird. Symbolic. Change in perceiver.
No longer male gaze, Judy gaze now included.

Scottie, flaw over fantisiicngl vertigo
Judy flaw. Submission, aids in a murder.

Dizzy music with Judy, result of mental instability. Showing her own free fall

I’d manipulation is theme of film.
And fascination

Who do we identify with. Sexism, miso tropic. Satirical !

Trajectory of male character needs to restore control.
Re exerts control in violent obsessive way,

Female character destroyed female character,
John is liberated,
Extreme versions of cultural genrpdef roles. Male dominance kill women, extreme submission, so film is a satire.

C major cadences big, weirder each time

115
Q

Vertigo

A

Eb chord, atonality, a minor reference,
Then second time c major. Tonal ambiguity right away!
Ambiguous resolution

116
Q

Rosze unique important style

Hungarian background

A

Modal language, great for historical epic.
Melodic structure. Modular, expanding melody.
Antiphonal or respon social texture. Higher level of dissonance.

117
Q

Miklos rosza (1907-95)

A

Classical trained
Work w KORDA, got into Hollywood through connections. Did not start there. Had concert music and film music.
1 film with Hitchcock.

3 important film genres.

  1. FAIRYTALES
    Colorful sensuous music, matching fantasy aspect.
    Listen to theif of Baghdad
  2. Film Noir
    Sparing underscore, harsh dissonant scores. Timbre and harmony. Unclear leitmotifs. Influent on later ex. ,!!!, imp. Some compels changed steel
  3. Historical EPIC
    Bigger in 1950, did musical research for these scores.
    Be hur. Something could not see on tv
118
Q

1959 Ben Hur

Like quo Vadim Jewish Christian intermingled.

A

Victorian moral tale, many retellings.

119
Q

CansiN composer

Mychael Danna

A

Winnepeg
Minimalism, ethnic musi influence.

Turned off by cliche film music. 
Wrote for theatre. 
Met atom egoyann independant productions, 
Other films did 
Mira Nair,wedding. 
Angela Lee, the ice storm.

Ego yang and Dannin has been a LONG collaboration
diaspora issues, multicultural.
Low to mid budget films, girl interrupted. Life of pie.

1997 the sweet thereafter.

120
Q

Dayana musical style

A

Multicultural spectrum (ethnic music)
Random access, all there to draw on.
Non-western inst./Styles
Symbolic assocaiteions and Intersting juxtapositions, interesting subtle ways.
indirect enigmatic or oblique corrpondances.
Economical minimal palette. Motions gestures reduced.

Early music, ethnic music , and minimalism
No cliche styles.

121
Q

Sweet thereafter title music and other info.

A

Early music ensemble.
Restrained, simple, delicate.

Based on novel.
Released 1997
Bus Fall River, kids drown.

122
Q

Structure of wseet thereafter

A

ComplicTed timeline and fractured narrative
PUZZLE STRUCTURE. Z
Several time frames. Before accident, after the accident (lawyer) , 2yrs later. And flashbacks, of long ago?

So pov fractured between lawyer and Nicole (child survivor) pied piper story (matches mythical commentary of story)

Theme, struggle to find meaning, in meaningless event.

Leaves musical meaning ambiguous,

123
Q

Plural music streams in the sweet thereafter. They are

A

Early music
Nostalgia, idealized past.

Pop music (connected to Zoe)
 Diegetic, musical environments. Ambiguous,

Innocent girly stuff Nicole song, sky, blue, one more color.

Electronic distortion
Foreign influence tarnishing.
Sound design, ambiguity in visual and sonic world, screams of children, close work with compose and director.
Ney (Iranian flute) (tuned differently. And pied piper sinister.
Also appears close to accident scene. Incestuous.

Music time jumps,
Lawyer, Nicole father are each the pied piper.
Bus driver too.

PAINO with reverb music.
Finally comforting us from trauma.

124
Q

Restrained music but is so

A

Rich and contrasting,
Hovering music,

For danna, early music is for the town.

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