MUSIC246 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: The Last Picture Show, American Graffiti, Studio System
Document Summary
Since the "40s film music has been moving away from the conventions of steiner and korngold. Increasing importance of non-western music and sounds: not focused on cultural accuracy. Increasing importance of atonality - sees music as sonic texture: conglomeration (bringing together) continues (takes off) in the "70s. Included orchestral scores being out of favour: pop scores were often used - pop songs put on top of a film rather than a score, the graduate (1967), easy rider (1969), the last picture show (1971), american. Graffiti (1973: cheaper to do this - because a parent company owns the film studio, recording studio and publishing company involved in creating the film. Like moving money from one pocket to the other: not entirely unlike the studio system (for intellectual property, not people though) John williams (1932: born in 1932 to musical parents, trained as a concert pianist at julliard, worked as orchestrator for tiomkin, worked for television in the late "50s.
