Music 1930s Flashcards
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Max Steiner 1888- 1971
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Australian composer US in 1929 Father of film Music - King Kong - Casablanca - gone with the wind
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King Kong
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Score by max Steiner Leitmotifs compared to Wagner’s Tannhauser overture Main theme Love song=strings
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Footlight paradise
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Direct= busby Berkeley
Motion picture production code 1930 Hayes code 1934
Top shots- by a waterfall
4
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Top hat
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Irving Berlin
Starting Fred Astaire and ginger rogers
“Cheers to cheek”
5
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Franzs waxman
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1930s Classically trained German composer Moved to Us to escape nazis Founded LA music festival Leitmotif
6
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The bride of frank
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Directed by James whale
Created suspense
7
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Smile
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Music by Charlie Chaplin
Lyrics by tuner+ Parsons
Performed by Nat King Cole 1954
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Alfred Newman
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American film composer
- 200 films for 20th century
- fox string sound- heavy vibrato, high register
- wordless choir
- vision from the song of beradette 1943
9
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Withering heights
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1939
- direct by William wyler
- score by Alfred Newman
- Cathy’s theme
10
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The wizard of oz
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1939 Direct by victor Fleming Technicolor Judy garland as Dorothy Harold Arlen and yip harbors- somewhere over the rainbow
11
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Gone with the wind
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1930
- staring Clark fable and Vivian Leigh
- first color film to win best picture
- score by max Steiner
- main title
12
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Sergei profofiev
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20th century Russian piano virtuoso and classic composer
- New York but back to Russia
- worked during the reign of Joseph Stalin’s
- film scored: lieutenant kije, Ivan the terrible, Alexander Nevsky
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Alexander Nevsky
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1938
Directed by Sergei Einstein
- score by Sergei prokofiev
- film cut out music
