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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Jun 16, 2024 9:51:49 GMT
Music is often used in films, but it doesn't always bind with it, if you know what I mean. But some pieces you can't hear without thinking of the film. Obviously not including those where the music was written for it. There will be individual variation here.
Stuck in the Middle with You -- Reservoir Dogs
Also Sprach Zarathustra (which people tend not to recognise after the opening bit) -- 2001: A Space Odyssey
And there must be many more, but I've gone blank, and then I haven't seen that many films anyway. I can't associate Bohemian Rhapsody or Eye of the Tiger with the films they were used in, although I know in an academic way that they were.
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Post by kizolk on Jun 16, 2024 10:40:01 GMT
The only one I can think of right now and that you haven't mentioned is Lacrimosa, used in Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life", which I've mentioned before. Not the one from Mozart's requiem, but a song by Zbigniew Preisner. That said, I didn't know it before hearing it in the film, which may not be what you had in mind for this thread. Obviously not including those where the music was written for it. It was specifically written for the film, Wikipedia tells me. I haven't seen any of the Rocky movies, but the bits I've seen make it so that then when I hear the song, I do think of the movie. |
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Post by kizolk on Jun 16, 2024 10:55:29 GMT
And it doesn't fit your requirements, but since we're talking about movie music: I re-watched the first Harry Potter film yesterday, and was again reminded that its theme is probably my favorite piece of original movie music. I don't even like John Williams' music usually, even despise some of his works, but man, the Potter theme is so good.
Everyone probably knows it, but anyway:
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Jun 16, 2024 11:01:37 GMT
I didn't know it. I've only listened to a bit of it, and am now wondering if his music for Schindler's List is something you despise.
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Post by kizolk on Jun 16, 2024 11:16:20 GMT
I didn't know it (the film is on my own to-watch list), but I like it. Were you reminded of it because of it bears some resemblance to the Potter theme?
I was more thinking of the bland Indiana Jones theme for instance. I hate "epic" movie music, as a general rule.
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Post by kizolk on Jun 16, 2024 11:23:34 GMT
Another by him I quite despise is Star Wars:
But it's also my reference for the perfect fifth: the second note of the theme is a fifth higher than the first one. It's useful when training one's ear for interval recognition to have a few songs you can easily remember and sing that illustrate a specific interval. I think this one is fairly popular for the fifth.
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Post by kizolk on Jun 16, 2024 11:25:20 GMT
(being the single most important interval in Western music, you of course have lots of good candidate reference songs for the perfect fifth, but this one makes the triumphant nature of it very clear)
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Post by kizolk on Jun 16, 2024 11:30:57 GMT
To get back to the subject at hand: I think of the anime "Neon Genesis Evangelion" whenever I hear Pachelbel's Canon.
I was so moved when I first heard it, and only much later did I learn it wasn't original music.
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Jun 16, 2024 11:39:20 GMT
Whereas I can't hear it without thinking of
I mentioned Schindler's List because it is the only thing I knew offhand written by Williams, and I thought it quite differernt. I didn't know he wrote the music for Star Wars, which unlike the films I haven't managed to avoid.
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Jun 16, 2024 12:46:47 GMT
Thought of a couple of others. Walter (as he was at the time) Carlos' arrangement of Music on the Death of Queen Mary in Clockwork Orange (but not all the Beethoven, as you hear that everywhere). Also, Mahler's Fifth in Death in Venice.
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Post by kizolk on Jun 16, 2024 12:46:57 GMT
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Post by kizolk on Jun 16, 2024 12:47:58 GMT
Oh. Can't embed clips apparently. I thought I'd managed to do it the other time, but if so I can't remember how I did it.
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Post by kizolk on Jun 16, 2024 12:59:30 GMT
Walter (as he was at the time) Carlos' arrangement of Music on the Death of Queen Mary in Clockwork Orange (but not all the Beethoven, as you hear that everywhere). I thought Clockwork Orange might come up. I have very little recollection of it (it's one of those movies by big brothers watched when I was a kid and I hang around) but I seemed to remember music played an important role in some of the iconic scenes. |
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Post by kizolk on Jun 16, 2024 13:31:16 GMT
A common one would be The Ride of the Valkyries with Apocalyspe Now. I haven't seen the film (yet), though.
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Jun 16, 2024 13:50:35 GMT
I have seen it, but by then that music had other associations for me.
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