FILM

Film music includes scores, songs, and sound design created for cinema and related screen forms. It may support action, define a character, evoke a period, or become famous outside the film itself. The tag brings together stories where music and moving image meet, from orchestral film score to popular songs that gained new life on screen.

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FILM

Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: Rodgers and Hart's timeless Broadway song

Bewitched (Bothered and Bewildered) stands as a celebrated song and show tune hailing from the musical Pal Joey which...
FILM

Dammit Janet: the playful proposal song

Dammit Janet is a memorable song from the original 1973 The Rocky Horror Show British musical stage production as well...
FILM

Sirtaki: folk dances arranged by Mikis Theodorakis

The Sirtaki dance—a lively and energetic expression of Greek culture—has become an iconic image associated with the...
FILM

Jumpin' Jive: a celebration of swing and scat singing

Jumpin' Jive is a notable jazz hit that was originally recorded by the Cab Calloway Orchestra in 1939. The song...
FILM

Ave Satani: diabolic essence of The Omen theme song

Ave Satani is a choral work written by the prolific American composer Jerry Goldsmith for the 1976 supernatural horror...
FILM

Concerning Hobbits: portraying home with the penny whistle

Concerning Hobbits is a two-minute tune originally composed by Canadian composer Howard Shore for Peter Jackson's 2001...
FILM

Hedwig’s Theme: magical mood cast by the celesta melody

Hedwig's Theme, also known as the main theme of all eight Harry Potter films, was the first piece written by John...
FILM

Gabriel's Oboe: soulful Morricone tune that soothes the Iguazu Falls

Gabriel's Oboe is a short instrumental piece written by Ennio Morricone for a key scene in Roland Joffé's period drama...
SONGWRITER

Ferry Cross the Mersey: Merseybeat classic arranged by the Fifth Beatle

Ferry Cross the Mersey is the best-known track of the Liverpool rock band Gerry and the Pacemakers released in the...
ORCHESTRA

Handel's Sarabande: obscure keyboard suite that found its iconic orchestration in Barry Lyndon movie

The sarabande is a fiery carnival dance that originated in the 16th century in Central America and then spread to Spain...
FILM

Dum Maro Dum: psychedelic Hindi lyrics in Western arrangement that influenced generations

Dum Maro Dum is a popular Hindi song written by Anand Bakshi and composed by Rahul Dev Burman for the 1971 Bollywood...
SONGWRITER

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy: the reveille that defined a generation

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy is an iconic World War II tune written by Don Raye and Hughie Prince for the military musical...
ORCHESTRA

Lully's Passacaglia of Armide revised by Bear McCreary in Outlander score

The passacaglia is a slow dance that originated in Spain at the very beginning of the Baroque era, initially performed a...
SONGWRITER

Minnie the Moocher: essential step in the history of scat singing by Cab Calloway

Minnie the Moocher is an iconic jazz composition showcasing essential examples of scat singing—a vocal technique for...
FILM

Symphonic scores by Erich Wolfgang Korngold established new standards in the film industry

Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austrian pianist and composer whose contribution to film music has actually set the...
FILM

The necessity of undramatic humanity in Coffee and Cigarettes by Jim Jarmusch

A set of 11 short stories collected in the film Coffee and Cigarettes depicts the nostalgic era every older smoker might...
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The fifth string of the Maihar school lead violin

For more than a century, the tiny town of Maihar—now the de facto cradle of the Indian Classical—has been breathing with... 1 comment
SONGWRITER

Sūrsāgar: ocean of poetry that expanded for five centuries

Sūrdās was a North Indian devotional poet, musician, and saint who lived in the 16th century. His lyrics, addressed...
SONGWRITER

The timeless tragedy of Molly Malone

Not many songs can boast international recognition of being so deeply and fondly Irish the way Molly Malone does. Also...
FILM

The unique music garden of Toru Takemitsu

Widely considered to be the greatest composer in the classical music tradition in modern Japan, Toru Takemitsu merged...
SAROD

Malkauns night music was composed to tame Shiva's dance

Malkauns is one of the oldest music pieces in North Indian tradition that equivalent to Hindolam raga of Carnatic...
FILM

Five tones of Spielberg's alien language

Close Encounters of the Third Kind—Steven Spielberg’s first and perhaps best attempt at sci-fi—was released in 1977 only...
FILM

The drama of The Chain kept alive on the big screen

The Chain, included on Fleetwood Mac’s classic 1977 Rumours album, has retained that particular brand of culturally...
FILM

Young Adam score captures the desolate landscape of the 50s Scotland

An adaptation of Scottish writer Alexander Trocchi's loosely autobiographical novel, Young Adam is a harsh portrait of a...
FILM

Instrumental simplicity of the quiet piano drama Breathe In

In the intimate story of a foreign exchange student who causes a deep and devastating rift in a close-knit upstate New...
FILM

Accordion for Amélie was discovered by a lucky accident

Amélie is a 2001 French romantic comedy classic directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet that depicts a contemporary yet...
FILM

Full-method approach to the score for Shakespeare's play

The classic Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice had seen many adaptations, one of them a 2004 venture for the big...
FILM

Easy Living owes Billie Holiday for giving it voice

A tender ballad Easy Living has forthright lyrics that declare just how wonderful life can be when living for someone...
FILM

Sicario's desert pulsates in Jóhannsson's score

Sicario tells the story of an idealistic FBI agent Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) who is enlisted by a government official to...
FILM

Vintage synthesizers alleviate the Blade Runner sequel

Blade Runner 2049 is the long-anticipated sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 iconic film which defined a whole generation of...

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