Film music

[pianino]

There does not seem to be a thread devoted to film music.

Here's a cheerful piece by Larry Adler from the film Genevieve, about a race of vintage cars between London and Brighton.
The film was named the best foreign film of the year in the US and the music was nominated for an oscar. However, Adler's name was not allowed to appear in the nomination as he had been blacklisted for communist sympathies, because of this he had moved to the UK in 1949, where he spent the rest of his life.

On http://www.donbrockway.com/Music%20By%2 ... 0Adler.htm you can find an excerpt from Adler's autobiography which contains three images of the piano arrangement below, which I have made into a pdf.
You can also find an mp3 where he plays the film theme (on the harmonica) with piano accompaniment.

I wonder how many people here are old enough to have seen the original film (1953)?

Adler Genevieve Waltz.pdf

[pianino]

Another famous film (1949) is The Legend of the Glass Mountain by Nina Rota.

On youtube you can see the theme conducted by the composer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkh0WX7_w7k) and also in a piano version with text (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNfU0gv7 ... re=related) if you can bear to see the spelling mistakes!

Did you notice my spelling mistake. I should have written Nino Rota.

Rota (1949) Legend of the Glass Mountain.pdf

[Alkan81]

The Sixth Sense (1999)
Music by James Newton Howard

[rob]

The Sixth Sense (1999)
Music by James Newton Howard

Be careful. Even IF this is your own private transcription the original is almost certainly copyright and you (as well as P-P) could be sued for being in breach of copyright!

[fredbucket]

I wonder how many people here are old enough to have seen the original film (1953)?

Of course. Who hasn't? Starring the magnificent Kay Kendall.

In fact I can go one better. I have sat (sitted?) in the car itself. Genevieve was for a number of years the major attraction in Gilltrap's Auto Museum on the Gold Coast in Queensland (that's in Australia for those who believe the world is shaped like one half of an orange). It was quite comfortable ...

Regards
Fred

[lito valle]

Album published in 1913
Piano music for silent movie composed by J.S. Zamecnik
(nms)
Regards
Lito

Zamecnik - Moving Picture Music (for silent movie).pdf

[fredbucket]

Piano music for silent movie composed by J.S. Zamecnik

This is really good stuff, Lito. Now which modern film would be improved by turning the sound off and playing this music instead?

Titanic, for a start...

Regards
Fred

[Alkan81]

The Sixth Sense (1999)
Music by James Newton Howard

Be careful. Even IF this is your own private transcription the original is almost certainly copyright and you (as well as P-P) could be sued for being in breach of copyright!

Where I can get this copyright??? This is my transcription

[fredbucket]

Where I can get this copyright??? This is my transcription

Making a transcription of a work does not in any way negate the copyright on that work, which remains with the original copyright owner, and you cannot publish that arrangement without the express permission of the original copyright owner.

If this were not the case, I could take a copyrighted piece, change one note, call it an arrangement, and publish it.

Regards
Fred

[WCosand]

Thanks, Lito. I love this album!