Week 6 Flashcards
Wax man bride of Frankenstein 1935
First American score,
Not before, had direct experience with nazi clash.
Started at universal, as head. High ranking in Germany helped.
Range of experience in studios
Classical community champion, new music, Los Ngeles festival. Foot in both art and film music cReer.
Worked with Hitchcock 4 movies.
One of whitesells favorites, highest echelon, despite time constrains and limitations,
Sophisticated melodic and range of ideas styles. Easy access to scores.
Wax an reading
lol fee help,
Rebeccafame,
Won oscars.
Sunset boulevard, no fugal component unsure of extraneous form, but meolsic invention sure there. Various themes, monkey, piano, pastiche etc. will talk about in class I am sure.
Waxman’s general style
Melodic invention gat tunes.
Working with melodic electronic instruments, oned, theremin, at his time. Sound waves and oscillation. Rebeca ex. Novachord
Wax man was brillian at (thought of during spotting) imp.
autonomous musical form integration. As set pieces.
Integrated well.
Ex. Sorry wrong number, climactic scene.
Passacaglia used, final scene
Building architecture in this case suspense.
Fugue in Place in the Sun
Chase scene, ricercar, listen to score for something special.
Bride of Frankenstein (imp. Listening)
Create she monster scene, fantasia
Fantasia, ON ONE NOTE
Integrate score into heart beat film.
Sunset boulevard 1950
Film noir genre
Theme,
- success joe theme, opportunistic
- obsession,
- love triangle
- nostalgia
- dark take of Hollywood, some despised it.
-jiggolo, kept man. Uncomfortable posting, lack of power, gender roles. Role reversal
Exploit atonal rela.
Mental insanity
Visual symbol,
Monster
Museum, entrapping past, pathological nostalgia.
DOOM, fate
Film noir genre
Imp. Assuming it is a genre
1. Starts in 40’s somber tone in set design, lighting tone
Pessimistic and cynical protagonists.
Motives, moral failing. Pessimism human psychology.
Set in underworld crime and corruption,
A lot of shadows, motifs of shadows, dingy shabby realism.
Common character type, women with gun knife, lure, cillain faune fatale
Loose cluster of ideas, really like crime gangster, French distinguish this genre, in Hollywood trade industry.
3 issues to keep in mind, how music supports explores different themes
- REALITY. What kind of realty are we dealing with.
Cue illusion, delusion. - Transforamation? In character, trajectory, change in character
- Power dynamics
Music motifs in sunset boulevard.
Joe, minor jaunty triads on piano!
Norma, slow bassoon, fantasy, majestic, with faune noire undertone modal, tango, Phrygian mode. Tango Spanish music link. Exotic creatures.
Betty’s theme, love theme, oboe, even slower and almost do re mi re Old paramount news reels, turned into romantic waltz, quoting tune from past. Not consumed by illusion. Polarity.
Joe, trying to HUSTLE opportunity,
Max, rhythmic old fashioned theme, fanfare
Wax man is like
Steiner due to his range of styles
Opening theme sounds like
Fateful, doom music.
Hustle fate sound first heard, Norma’s not exotic version, Gershwin sound. Agitated cause music.
Free arson, pool joes theme
Music cues reality when entering mansion
Joes stuff moving into room hear joes theme,
Transformed,pov thoughts, setting
Dissonant,dream like music, when wakes up.
Inernalize into reality, non-diegetic transitions into diegetic. Ex. Of
Sound dissolve.
Audio dissolve
One kind of music fades out another fades in, transition between diegetic and non diegetic or vice versa. Different statuses of music dissolved togethor.
Remember hustle motif in sunset boulevard 1950 waxman
Da dum, Da dum. Da duh duh.
Music cue for reality space.
Trajectory, or power
Threads unlock specific meaning and impact of film score,
Sound dissolve scene, diegetic, to non diegetic,
Status from joe to max. Organ grinder chimp, symbolism.
Joe hustle Norma, manipulation starteing. Loss of control.
Joe room flooding, joe theme, move from jaunty to mellow.
Sax from piano, sleek, change, being pulled into kept man. Norma power reality, doom trajectory
New years party. Diegetic war, struggle, who is in control below stinger. Instrumental. Subconscious
Get home, unreal music, waltz scary corruption denial
Joe giving in to sit. Norma
Grum joe, berry theme, during thoughts! Fake reality,
Bi tonal Chaplin strange reality.
Call to be in. Film, rigorous beauty treatment.
Strange things about music, hear Gershwin like, overture link. Irrational. Chase music at this point. Cognitive for shadowing. Odd. Instead piano now violin,
Shit hits fan. Several leitmotifs. Norm finds script.
Independant musical form, dramatic confrontation. Norma on ohone Betty. Fugue on joes theme. Finally try to take control . Wild. Esoteric dramatic
Overture doom music, for joes depart. Aost done flashback.
Space for shots, all leitmotifs. Totally different reality.
Music calls attention to itself. In
Hear jobs theme, when dead, resurrect. This is my life, places of dark. Verbal voice replace by musical voice.
Narrative techniques film noir
Flashback,
Sunset creepiness extra level, recounted by dead man,
Ghost narrative, surreal
