director falls in love with temp tracks and cant envision anything else

sometimes music works non- diegetically in the classical film score sense (helo scene)

changes with audience

changes with time

recognizability

Also Sprach Zarathustra- R. Strauss

Blue Danube Waltz- J. Strauss

Lux Aeterna, Atmospheres- Ligeti

Gayaneh- Khachaturian

NON DIEGETIC

Bicycle built for two

Happy Birthday

idea that a piece of art can comment on anothe rpiece of art, but not precise to the authors intent

ex. Opening and Neitzche... Bicycle Built for Two

Lack of unity

Structure of film is more musical than narrative

Dialogue not provledged (silence has greater role)

music that has very little relationship to what is happening on screen

examples: Blue Danube, Gayaneh

backstage: plot centers around the creation of a show (ex. 42nd street)

these were early musicals

Integrated: musical numbers help comment on or advance the plot (ex. Swing Time)

late 19030-50's

sometimes use diegetic instruments to introduce music (i.e. tapping foot to the beat)

words make same sounds as music to sound musical

rythmn is musical

 spontaneity obscures the labor of performance to suggest that musical performance emerges out of a joyous and responsive attitude toward life, and is available to all.

integration, successful performances are intimately bound up with success in love, with the merger of high and low art, and with the integration of the individual into a community or group.

audience suggests that successful performance will be sensitive to the audience's needs

all musicals, to one degree or another, are about musicals themselves

five aspects of uptopia

EAITC

considered a film musical

respresents a performance in its own right

used music from other musicals to shwo the evolution from silents, to talkies, to musicals and how they affect the lives of people in hollywood

Each character vies to develop an appearance, an illusion created by themselves or the movie industry

The plot itself is centered on how to get one of the stars of the movie to appear to have more talent than she does.

Factory of Illusions

a group of people trying to put on a production

to showcase the drastic difference between what individuals and communities put forth (in life and in shows) and reality

Good Morning: "YES, AND WHAT A LOVEELLLLYY MORNIN"

Make em laugh: No, DEF NO, SURELY?! then finishes lines as music slowly introduced. music used to cheer him up. piano used as prop

Italian Norealism- film focused on poor migrant workers, non pro actors, journalistic

8 1/2 is neorealism director producing surrealism film.

Alfred Hitchcock

Terry Gillam- animation of buildings, use of metaphor, using characters that arent acting natural

Fellini wants to break from neorealism, auteuristic

Both collaborated together- Fellini dealt with music, Rota images

Fellini helped Rota in determining musical types

Narrative:

sense of fantasy, very autobiographical

many characters

Musical:

Mixed of composed and borrowed music

Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries

Rossini's Barber of Seville

Tchovsky's Dance of the Reed Flutes

Gorbmanns Principles

SIINCUV

Signifier of Emotion

Invisibility

Inaudibility

Narrative Cueing

Continuity

Unity

Violatios are okay if they help another

awkward non diegetic music

audibilty- esp classical work

signifier of emotional alienation

Narrative off cueing

SOMETIMES continuity

Disunity

 is a stage or film musical that uses previously released popular songs as its musical score

Vietnam War, Berkeley, 1960's

a culture that has ideas and ways of behaving that are consciously and deliberately very different from the cultural values of the larger society that it is part of

voice within the song may not be accurate to film meaning

authenticity (can we believe the song we are hearing)

advance time (montage sequences ex. sound of silence in bed)

Establish mood and setting

Transition from scene to scene

a.       Beethoven Ninth Symphony, Die Hard.. becomes the leitmotif of the villain. Clashing of meaning between the original meaning and its film music

                                                                           i.      J. Strauss- wrote the Waltz

                                                                         ii.      Richard Strauss wrote

                                                                        iii.      Sprach Zarathustra

                                                                       iv.      Ligeti- futuristic, inhuman music, do not need to distinguish among the various pieces of Legetic.

FANFARE FOR THE COMMON MAN

homefront culture

music is understated, light instruments, simple melodies