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Wed, Sep 11, 2013
This first episode looks at the classic orchestral film scores. In the 1930s, Viennese composers produced stirring, romantic scores for films such as King Kong and The Adventures of Robin Hood. Later, American composers brought a darker sounds to Citizen Kane, Psycho and Taxi Driver.
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Wed, Sep 18, 2013
In the 1960s, composers turned from classical music to jazz, and pop and rock, to introduce fresh energy to their film scores. In many cases, music was written specially, but then directors started selecting existing pop songs, dispensing altogether with a composer of original music.
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Wed, Sep 25, 2013
Film composers began using electronic instruments in their scores - for example, Vangelis's uplifting score for "Chariots of Fire", Miklós Rózsa's pioneering use of the theremin in Hitchcock's "Spellbound", Bernard Hermann's use of the trautonium to produce all the terrifying bird sounds in Hitchcock's "The Birds", and Walter/Wendy Carlos's score using Moog synthesizer for "A Clockwork Orange".