The Power of Music in a A Movie (theater, horror, director)
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My retirement degree is in mass media and music; radio, film, sound, from an engineering to an artistic perspective. Movies are one of the ways I use to entice young kids into classical music and move a new generation into it.
One of the teachers I share a room with for lessons has a plaque in her room that says - "Music is the Sound of Emotions" and this is so very true. What you listen to reflects your internal feelings and can affect them too. I tell the kids to close their eyes when watching a movie in order to enhance their appreciation that what they are hearing is in actuality symphonic music and to open their minds to it. I also teach a bit of physics and vibrational wave theory along the electromagnetic spectrum along with it to interest the kids in science.
For me, some of the best musical scores were found in The Sound of Music and The Good The Bad and the Ugly. The Star Wars theme song is easily one of the most memorable.
As a really great example of the power of music - try looking at the riding scenes in Lawrence of Arabia with the sound off. You can immediately see that it's the music that carries it along.
Speaking of Meryl Streep, the soundtrack to "Out of Africa" (John Barry) was fabulous. Check out Mozart's Clarinet concerto in A major, K. 622 - Adagio:
Another good movie with a great soundtrack is Love Song for Bobby Long, set in New Orleans - or rather, Nawlins. Some critics loved it, some found it boring, but if you know and love New Orleans, you will probably think the movie is very evocative of that dirty, delicious city.
John Horner, who died last year, did Titanic's musical score, which to me, is brilliant, and half of the entertainment experience of the film. It conveys, through music, anticipation, grandeur, danger, impending doom, "haunting" emotion, and redemption.
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