CMST 2T03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Roger Sessions, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Cat-Women Of The Moon

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 2T03
• Professor: Simon Wood

Document Summary

Cimarron (1931) score by max steiner: david selznick, at rko recognized that more music might be good, (1932) symphony of 6 million and bird of paradise. The informer (1935: won academy award for best original score , not the brightest bulb, motivated by greed. Europe at the same time: alfred newman and herbert stothart are two of the few important american born composers of the period. Hollywood wanted to get the best coming to hollywood) solution and keeps improving. Wrote in a 19th century romantic style (like wagner and strauss) considered his scores to be like. Little operas : focused on extended melodies: he tended to write very long and involved themes for the films, but they were not simple, short music, they were very elaborate, he practiced the technique phrased the drama . Developed a series of approaches for battle scenes: (see textbook page 132) A lot of freedom with the way the music was performed.