Composers
Goal: You will build previous knowledge of music composition (form, major vs minor, instrumentation) and reflecting on how those tools are employed to influence how we perceive a character or scene
Objetivo: Você desenvolverá conhecimento prévio sobre composição musical (forma, maior vs. menor, instrumentação) e refletirá sobre como essas ferramentas são empregadas para influenciar a forma como percebemos um personagem ou cena.
Objektif: Ou pral konstwi konesans anvan sou konpozisyon mizik (fòm, pi gwo vs minè, instrumentation) epi reflechi sou fason yo itilize zouti sa yo pou enfliyanse fason nou wè yon pèsonaj oswa yon sèn.
Michael Abels wrote the score for US
Read about it HERE
How does he represent the individual characters and their “tethered” counterparts?
Pinar Toprak wrote the music for Captain Marvel
Check out the theme below. It is based around a minor 7th interval (C to Bb)
She also scored Thursday Night Football!
Marco Beltrami wrote the music for A Quiet Place
Read on to find out more about the instruments he used and why!
Instrumentation
“All the stuff that you hear in the monster suite is derived from acoustical sources. Then I took a piano and detuned all the black notes by a quarter-step and used that for the theme, so, something’s slightly off about its sound. We just had to be careful and use it sparingly, because a little bit of that goes a long way[. . .] There’s a drum that we took and manipulated electronically that became the source of the rhythmic pulse. There’s a little bit of other percussion in some of the more active scenes later on in the movie especially, but I wouldn’t say this is a percussion-heavy score.”
Hear the de-tuned piano and percussion at 2:36
Compare the two themes. What is different?
It Hears You
A Quiet Life
The Last of US: Gustavo Santaolalla
The Music of Peaky Blinders: Roman GianArthur
The Music of The Dark Knight (The Joker Theme):
Find the interview with Hans Zimmer here