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UNIT 3: Classifying film music - original and non original scores

 As we said at the beginning of Unit 2, film music can also be classified according to its origin:

there are original scores, which have been composed on purpose for the film,

and there is non-original film music, when directors use music that already existed. 

Within non-original film music we will be studying the use of classical music in films. 

Do you remember that at the beginning of this project we saw clips of some of the most famous soundtracks? They were examples of original scores, and we learnt the names of their composers. 

Listen to some more famous original scores......

Have you seen Pirates of the Caribbean ? The main theme is very well-known. It was written by  Hans Zimmer and Klaus Badelt in 2003. It is an exciting, fast piece of music which is well suited to an exciting, fast film!

MishoMGM He´s a Pirate Licencia YouTube

Ennio Morricone is an Italian composer who has written many famous scores for films. Here is one of his most well-known, for the western The Good, The Bad and the Ugly  (1966), starring Clint Eastwood. It is very distinctive: the two-note melody imitates the howling of a coyote, a type of wild dog that lives in the United States.  

HD Film Tributes. The Good, the Bad and the UglyLicencia YouTube

This famous and very beautiful original score is by Nino Rota, another Italian composer, for the film The Godfather  (1972), starring Marlon Brando as a Mafia boss. To give the tune an Italian feel Rota includes the sound of a mandolin, a small stringed instrument in the lute family which originated in Italy. 

SeasonalMantis The Godfather theme  LIcencia YouTube