Are there any books or essays about the music score in Hollywood movies?
Hi. I was wondering if there are somee books that could explain ther reason why , since 100 years, in every Hollywood movies there is 80 % of classical music played at any circumstances, I mean this corny, mellow music you hear in almost every scene , full of violins, piano, cellos…. mostly a full orchestra. I mean, even in SF-movies you hear that. Since it’s really impossible to fight aliens on some undercovered planet with Beethoven playing in the background, I was asking myself: why the directors never use an appropriate score for the scenes, like Europeans do ? If you shoot a wild-west-movie, then use wild-west music, the stuff people were playing in the saloon or in the year 1860 !! And if the lonely ranger is driving through the mountains , hunting a couple of rustlers, he’a surely not listening some Bach sonatas or Chopin ballads !! So my questions: Are there some book that could explain this mania of playing the same scores over and over ?
My guess is that film scores were written for full orchestras in the 1930s and 1940s when the films were black and white melodramas, and orchestral scores just carried over.
I’m not sure if Chopin is playing in western movies…how about Sergio Leone’s masterful Good, Bad, and the Ugly Theme?
And Star Wars would be greatly diminished without the contributions of John Williams.
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