The opening theme of Star Wars begins with a fortissimo tonic chord and a nostalgic fanfare that serves to remind the audience of themes such as Alfred Newman’s 1933 Twentieth Century Fox fanfare. This opening theme makes a dramatic statement that contrasts with the following lyrical section beginning in measure twenty. The violins, woodwinds and even harp take over the dominating brass section. Williams often employs the use of a perfect fifth interval, an interval that can be dated back centuries (Williams 1977). Williams was primarily concerned with creating nostalgia with his music and this interval was a technique he used to achieve that familiarity. Along with perfect fifths, Williams believes the French horn and other brass instruments …show more content…
This story was conveying how the empire would come to take away the freedoms of the republic’s citizens. The music progressively became somber throughout the prequels. In Episode II: Attack of the Clones Williams creates a love theme for Anakin and Padme’s relationship. Audissino believes this theme was a reworked or inverted version of Luke’s Theme (Audissino 2014, 75-80). When taking a closer look at the score, it is clear the love theme, Across the Stars, is not an inversion of Luke’s Theme, but however, it does share many rhythmic similarities. He utilizes triplet rhythms in both themes fairly often (Williams 1977). The reason Williams chose to keep the themes related is to remind the audience that Anakin (or later Darth Vader) and Padme are the parents of Luke Skywalker (Audissino 2014, 75-80).
Williams achieved a personal approach to the composing process by delivering the past to his audience’s conscious. He believed in creating a nostalgic film experience through large orchestras or synchronization between film scenes and the music. He explored narration support and character development through leitmotifs and their various musical
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He collaborated with his former partner, Lebo from The Power of One to incorporate every style of African music he could. MacDonald describes Zimmer’s music in The Lion King as an “atmospheric effect.” MacDonald is referring to the wordless choirs singing in the background. These melodies begin slow and quite, but over time increase in volume to a high climax. Zimmer uses quite a few exotic instruments in his score. When main character, Simba, is learning a lesson on the circle of life a musical theme enters in a minor-key with panpipes performing the accompaniment. His score for The Lion King was both exotic and unusual, but that is precisely what gave him the edge to win the best original score award (MacDonald 2013,
“The effect of the narrator's telling of this story upon the reader, as well as of the mariner's telling of his tale upon the wedding-guest, make narration itself fundamental (as it is in Frankenstein)” (Dr. Michael Rossington) Therefore, this essay will talk about the different narrators found in both literary works and its narrative structure.
The opening theme consists of a sinister sounding, descending organ phrase made from the notes A,
Fantasia sees the world as very colorful place where everything has a purpose. The evidence for this is in their interpretive animations in the series of music pieced together to create the nutcracker suite. All the animations in the song are utilized to their max potential. For example, the seaweed in the Arabian dance is used as a curtain of sorts to the fishes cave.
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This effect was made by placing a plunger at the opening of a brass instrument, therefore, muffling or muting the notes played out. The result sounded like a person wailing, giving the piece a voice-like quality. In "Concerto for Cootie," Cootie Williams does a solo using the jungle effect, making it sound like a voice is singing along. His opening solo is repetitive, going over the same set of notes over and over again. The overall feeling is as if the music is wooing the listener.
Written stories differ in numerous ways, but most of them have one thing in common; they all have a narrator that, on either rare occasions or more regularly, help to tell the story. Sometimes, the narrator is a vital part of the story since without him or her, it would not be possible to tell the story in the same way, and sometimes, the narrator has a very small role in the story. However, he or she is always there, and to compare how different authors use, and do not use, this outside perspective writing tool, a comparison between Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno, Henry James’ Daisy Miller, and David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly will be done.
For this essay I will be looking at the work of Hans Zimmer to discuss how music in film engages the viewer and evokes emotion and pulls the viewer toward the film. Hans Zimmer is a German born music composer. Hans Zimmer’s love of music stems from his childhood when he learned how to play various instruments. Before Zimmer began composing music for films he was in a well-known band. The band was called The Buggles whom were famous for their song Video Killed the Radio Star. After the Buggles Zimmer played in other bands but never had another hit. As Zimmer has progressed as a film composer so has his list of nominations and awards. Zimmer has won 4 Grammy Awards and 2 Golden Globes and many more for his outstanding film scores. The reason I chose to write this essay on Zimmer was that his genres and music score are extremely versatile ranging from animations to comedy to dark thrillers. This is important to highlight as it shows Zimmer can create almost any atmosphere with his music whether it be sad or creating tension that all cause us to engage with the film. Zimmer's use of themes and introduction of different instruments allowed him to create these wonderful engaging film score. In this essay I will look at three films by Hans Zimmer these are The Holiday Rush and Rain Man.
middle of paper ... ... The contrabassoon mimicked Fluffy, the three-headed dog, and the harp continuously played a lullaby. “Hedwig’s theme” was a song written for Hedwig, Harry’s owl. The song is light and airy.
First of all, the audio is used brilliantly in the sequence. Sound is one of the most powerful tools in cinema. Sound cues us to form expectation and opens up the possibility for the editing. In the beginning of the sequence we see the indigenous people dancing and Willard resting on the boat. However, he is getting ready to complete his mission. When his voice-over comes into play, the audience starts to realize that Willard is becoming insane just like Kurtz, he is becoming part of the jungle and so is the audience. The scene cuts to Willard rising slowly from the water, accompanied by the song “The End” by The Doors. The tribal beat and the song mix together, intensifying the suspense. The odd thing is that the tribal beat is a diegetic sound and the song is a non-diegetic sound. The combination of these two sounds invades each other’s boundaries and creates a hypnotic feeling. “Filmmakers carefully choose which sounds to include on the soundtrack, knowing that emphasizing a particular ...
Also, even those music that are performed by the orchestra, it is more in atonal and really has very little harmonic and melodic effects. By creating music like this, it somehow creates the mystery feelings and that fits the whole concept since finding the Ark is a very mystery journey and everything is unpredictable and I think the music really captures
Many people hail “The Star Spangled Banner” as the greatest piece of American music. The audiences of America’s national anthem seem, instinctively, eager to express their respect by embracing the notion to remove their hats and stand up. However, not many people ponder over the question of what “The Star Spangled Banner” truly means. What does it mean? Why does it deserve so much reverence and honor? What exceptional difference allows it to prevail over the masterpieces of prominent composers like Mozart and Beethoven? The answer is fairly simple. “The Star Spangled Banner” symbolizes America’s perseverance, its set of moral laws and ethics, and its history that constitutes what America truly means.
This style in which he chose to base his music off of presented a positive tone to this very serious movie. The initial theme, “Coming Home,” also shows the American Nationalist style of modern music. In the film Rebel without a Cause, which came out in 1956, composer
The sounds as well had a lot of impact to do with it, the slow music showing the emotion that Red had after reading the letter from
Quite possibly one of the most iconic openings in cinematic history is “A Long time ago in a galaxy far far away.” Of course, I am referring to Star Wars. It is such a fascinating and great movie going experience. There have been a total of seven Star Wars films, but in this essay I am going to be focusing on Star Wars: Episode 3- Revenge of the Sith. This film was written and directed by George Lucas and of the science fiction genre. Revenge of the Sith was released in theaters on May 19, 2005.
George Lucas wrote and directed Star Wars, he had tons of creative and production control just like Hitchcock. Furthermore, the film demonstrates his aesthetic vision through recurring themes of good verse evil, heroes fighting for good and saving the day. Lastly, the film demonstrates thematic and stylistic consistencies to create the meaningful narrative. One thing that stands out from Star Wars that illustrates George Lucas’ control over the production is the credits. He did not want the credits at the beginning of the film so the audience can focus on the narrative. In the late 1950’s the auteur theory was introduced to filmmaking which created a new way of making films. Auteur theory went against the classical narrative by focusing on realism. Auteur films had ambiguous endings, which deeper into the character’s physiological state. Even though, Star Wars demonstrates certain auteur elements, it does not go against the classical narrative. To conclude, Star Wars mixed classical Hollywood techniques with the auteur theory that lead to a different and unique way of making a