VERY INTERESTING: FILM MUSIC

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Interesting Film Music Facts That Will Surprise You!

Film scores are music written for the first time to give an additional narrative to the movie. A variety of music styles are adopted depending on the movie genre to give unique effects to the movie.

Nowadays, it's hard for us to think of a movie without its background score, right? But a lot went into creating and synchronizing film music and film, and music composing wasn't a known profession as it is today. So how did music composing come to be a part of movies?

Film music is as important as the main songs. Imagine a horror movie without its eerie background score. Would you get as scared as you would with the occasional creepy sounds? No, right? That's how much of an impact film scores have on a film. Let's ponder over fun facts about film music, its musicians, sound effects, and much more.

An interesting fact is the usual songs of the movie are never a part of the original film soundtrack. Two bestselling soundtracks that have never gone out of fashion are from the movies 'The Bodyguard' (1992) by Whitney Houston and 'Saturday Night Fever' (1977) by Bee Gees. Millions of copies have been sold in the U.S. alone for these two albums.

Elvis Presley's soundtrack albums were a hit during the '50s and '60s. Most of them were critically acclaimed and commercial hits that made their way into approximately three dozen movies!

Back in the olden time's many influential composers like Max Steiner composed beautiful film scores. In fact, he is also regarded to be the father of film music. In one of his soundtrack for 'King Kong' (1922), he used leitmotif. A leitmotif is basically a frequent musical idea (a melody, chord sequence, rhythm, or a mixture of these) that is associated with a certain idea, character, or area.

Many known artists have turned towards soundtrack composing and became film composers.

Miles Davis (who made music for 'Gallows') is one of the earliest African-American film composers. He inspired other artists such as Terence Blanchard, Quincy Jones, and Herbie Hancock to come into the film music business.

The soundtracks held supreme domination over pop music in 1985.

Film music was started in 1927 by the first film to use music 'The Jazz Singer'. It commemorated the ascendancy of 'talkies' and the end of the silent-film era.

Although the inventor of film music is not much known, it is said that Bernard Herrnard was one of the very first influential music composers.

'Star Wars', a very popular movie, had one of the best film scores, and John Williams revived the golden age of Hollywood with his film score for 'Star Wars'. In fact, Spielberg had recommended John Williams to George Lucas for 'Star Wars' music. The film's soundtrack was the highest-selling record that did not have any pop tracks.

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