MUSIC 2F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Diegesis, Otto Preminger, David Raksin
5 Mar 2016
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Only source music-burn ham from the exterior- music would add drama- without he appears pathetic. Music enters as he leaves back to the internal. Music plays his despair as he returns to apartment. But despair is forgotten as he sees the bottle theremin takes over the score. Rosa is also an important composer of the 1950s- but he would be remembered for scoring a very different kind of picture than film noir. Early career as pianist and arranger for jazz bands in ny (benny goodman) Worked with chaplin on modern times entry into film music 1935. Chaplin: one of the great star of silent film, create great works. Director otto preminger wanted sophisticated lady by duke ellington (about a prostitute) Music not driving the suspense, more like the ghost or the ideal of laura. Focus on the portrait of laura- sophisticated/ urban- almost unearthly. Musical theme linked to laura- orchestral but hazz influenced.
