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Alfred Keyboard Chart 88-Key Foldout Chart List Price: $3.95 Sale Price: $2.96  |
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Two-sided fold-out chart that represents the entire keyboard of the piano with each piano key named and its corresponding note on the grand staff for five octaves. Side One may be placed on the piano above the keys and Side Two may be used away from the piano for additional review. |
"Bella's Lullaby", the death sentence for classical music in Hollywood?
I know we are all sick to death of the repetitive "Bella" questions, so I thought this time I would put the drivel to good use:
By putting modern keyboard garbage like "Bella" in movies geared towards the adolescent crowd, are we fostering a love of instrumental music or are we sentencing all good classical music to an early grave? It is my honest opinion that this "Bella" crap is no more enigmatic than any other instrumental "filler" stuck in the dead spaces of movies to fill the void. Richard Gere playing piano in "Pretty Woman" comes to mind, and you know where THAT wound up.
What are your thoughts on this current rage of "soft soundtracks", and can you come up with any more examples of same?
TOTAL SIDEBAR: When I put this question in, YA! led me directly to the classical forum. Those posters really might be the sheep we think they are!
The trend in Hollywood film music is to be about 20 years behind the times. Just look at Raymond Scott, or Korngold film scores, they completely ripped off Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Wagner, Mahler and Strauss. 20 years later the next crop of film composers were ripping off Pendereski, the neo-classical Stravinsky, and the beginnings of electronic music. and current film composers are doing the same thing today.
By the time Hollywood catches up to the tastes of the regulars on this forum, we'll either be dead, or moved on to the next thing.
While I've met many young composition students who started to compose because of John Williams or Danny Elfman, these same students tend to never have bothered to get past the Hollywood glitz. They have no idea that the film composer is borrowing musical ideas (sometimes quite literally) from earlier composers. At least Williams and Elfman can craft a piece, these young imitators rarely put in the time to study scores to learn the craft.
While there may be some exceptions I see the trend being that audiences tend to buy into the superficiality of these "filler" sound tracks. With any luck they'll have the same endurance as the fad for Theremins after they were used in every 50s sci-fi movie.
There are some film composers who actually do something interesting, like Angelo Badalamenti who scored a number of David Lynch films. But part of the problem is also with the directors and producers of films who often tell composers "I want the score to sound like this bit from Mahler 2." And then what can a film composer do? either quit the film and lose out on future work or cave in. Though lately directors haven't had any trouble finding composers to write the music they want.
Back in the 1930's Ravels Bolero was used in "One in a Million" and "Sunny" which led to the piece making the charts. Fortunately that piece had more substance and craft than some of the stuff we get today.
After "Chocolat" there was a brief fad for the Satie Gnossiennes.
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