film music quiz 1970s

1970s main ideas

• bye old composers

• studios in financial peril

• auter filmmakers (directors have full creative freedom)

• franchise/blockbusters

• pay tv/ cable after theater release

• film music = popular culture

• musical diversity in film

movie attendence

• relatively flat

• more screens

  • increase in multi screen venues/drive-ins

disco

• saturday night fever

  • bees gees

    • opening

  • album of year

rocky

• bill conti

• academy award nom

  • philidelphia morning

  • gonna fly

war

• patton

  • aa nom

  • goldsmith

  • director: ford francis coppola

the godfather

• nino rota

• aa nom (disqualified)

• fortunella

john williams movies

jaws, superman, close encounters of 3rd kind, star wars, empire strikes back

jaws

won academy award

star wars

• won academy award

• return of symphonic scores (korngold, gustav)

john williams influence

• composers datebook

• destruction of deathstar vs. mars, bringer of war (gustav)

• disco star wars

• tanglewood

  • summer studio

progressive rock

• the exorcist

• tubular bells

  • mike oldfield

  • halloween theme

rhythm and blues

• across 110th st

  • “across 110th street”

    • bobby womack

rock

• live and let die

  • paul and melinda mccarthy

ragtime

• the entertainer

  • joplin and hamslich

pop

• the way we were

  • hamlisch and bergmans

listening questions

• star wars

• saturday night fever

• the way we were

• exorcist

• jaws

• rocky

• the godfather

• the sting

bill conti

rocky

jerry goldsmith

patton

nino rota

the godfather

mike oldfield

tubular bells

bobby womack

across 110th st

paul and linda mccarthy

live and let die

joplin and hamslich

ragtime

hamlisch and bergmans

the way we were