Imagine watching a scene where a man and a woman are having a conversation in an area, and it is hard to guess what happened, and the woman may be attracted to the man. She may need her number, or maybe the man is a secrete spy who needs to poison her drink, the only way to know what will happen next is through hypothesis provided by music (Eaton, 2008). Initially, music was not used in hypothesizing what happens next, but that has become the trend nowadays. The concept of using music has advanced over time, and today, it plays a significant role in the movie industry. The use of score has become so important in the industry that today, there are winners in the score category, the most recognized being Gudnadottir who won the best score in the year 2000. She became one of the seven women to be nominated in the same category.
The film composer Natasha Paulberg had her say on the post-minimalist say, and she said that the Michael Nyman’s score for the Piano was more than once used mainly being effective ii nth use of the post-minimalist sounds. According to Paulberg. Simplicity is the primary element of Minimalism; the new scores are complex and are therefore called pst-minimal (Marks, 1997). The best example for the score is the 1978’s Halloween that was written by John Carpenter. The rating was recorded in three days and used simple recurring themes that were effective in support of a horror film. The composer
Music made the first appearance in the theatres in the film producers, and they have used music to set the mood, make viewers comfortable when watching movies. The moving score would be used to rock the theatres through the use of interludes, intimate moments and intimate moments. The director’s of the film believed that since having a video will be unbearable without having a score, there was the need for something that would replace the uncomfortable moments of the movie, and some parts of silence as the movie scenes changed.
Musicians were therefore sought out and hired to play their roles and compositions that would be used during the movie. There are times when a full orchestras were invited to play a piece of live music on the sport. The problem with moo e scores is that they were interpreted variedly from city to city due to diffidence in the audience and different themes of music played at different times of movie, Famous scorers were used to playing during the movie acting even before watching what part they would play in the movie (Roedder, 2013). He argued that sometimes he did not have to watch the movie beforehand; he would get the music and write it down as he plays. The score would then be improved over time to try to synchronize the scenes of the movie with the score.
The film era evolved and continued to evolve and progress into the sound era, and I was just a matter of time; the scores became mandatory in the film era (Potter, 2002). The scores became important in portraying the personalities of the characters and also setting the moods of the music (Kassabian, `2002). For example, there are certain scores that are played when ascertain characters appear on the screen, and the score was also used in setting the future scenes of the movie, for example playing a given score when an individual enters a scene and playing a different score when a character is playing a given type of score when this happens it can be assumed that the character may have the upbeat personality.
Minimalist has become the core of music, minimalist is found in many types of film such as advertisements and the big-budget studios, there are types of movies that can apply minimalists, the minimalist score is different from the conventional scores and is deployed in various Hollywood movies (Marks, 1997). The example of minimalist fill scores can be found in moves like American Beauty, The Hours, The Piano, The idea of the minimalist began in the 1960s as a result of the composers of the complexity and the search of spirituality in the field of music. Minimalist employed the incorporated endless repetition of phrases that are non-instrumental sounds that include the snippets of the spoken dialogue. In the early minimalists, there were creative soundscapes the snipes were called loops; they can be used in creating the disorienting effects that have the multiple copies of the same audio that would play audio, these techniques include the parts of the spoken dialogue. Minimalism has been incorporated in the repeated phrases and other non-instrumental that include the small snippets of the spoken dialogue (Potter, 2002). Although the minimalist may be an offshoot, it has become an integral part of today’s media, and it has captured the film scores, video games, and TV commercials.
An example of a minimalist is Steve Reich’s 1965 music of “It’s Gonne Rain” that featured a loop of a San Francisco Preacher, this loop contained background noises like clatter conversations and clatter noises around the streets, these are the kind of loops that appear in the background of the film scores, and their main aim is to add depth to the sound of the non-musical material, in this form, the Minimalism enriched the available sound composing.
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Kassabian, A. (2002). Hearing film: Tracking identifications in contemporary Hollywood film music. Routledge.
Potter, K. (2002). Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass (Vol. 11). Cambridge University Press.
Potter, K. (2002). Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass (Vol. 11). Cambridge University Press.s
Roedder, A. C. (2013). ” Japanamerica” or” Amerijapan”? Globalization, Localization, and the Film Scoring Practices of Joe Hisaishi. University of California, Los Angeles.
Marks, M. M. (1997). Music and the silent film: Contexts and case studies, 1895-1924. Oxford University Press on Demand.