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Week 8 Film Music Composers II
Week 8 Film Music Composers II
Week 8 Film Music Composers II
Week 4
Film music composers (II)
Jaws (1975)
- the main "shark" motif, a short and simple alternating pattern of two notes— "E and F” or “F
and F sharp"—became a classic piece of suspense music, synonymous with approaching
danger.
Gladiator (2000)
- the music of the scene of Commodus's triumphal entry into Rome is clearly evocative of the
Prelude to Das Rheingold and Siegfried's Funeral March from Götterdämmerung by Wagner.
- the whole soundtrack resembles the 3-part structure of the sonata-form in a symphony
Inception (2010)
- electronic manipulation of the song "Non, je ne regrette rien”.
Ennio Morricone
an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor
- Morricone gained international fame for composing music for westerns, including The Good, the
Bad and the Ugly (1966): he used gunshots, whistle, voices, jew's harp, trumpets, and the
Fender electric guitar, instead of orchestral arrangements.
- Toto, Salvatore’ s childhood nickname, discovers a love for films and spends every free moment
at the movie house named Cinema Paradiso.
- a film about chasing after dreams in life, Salvatore eventually leaves town to pursue his future
as a filmmaker.