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What composer was educated at Julliard, and initially wrote ballets, with no interest in film music? |
Alex North |
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What composer was discovered (by director Elia Kazan) because he was making music for the theater? |
Alex North |
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What movie did Elia Kazan invite Alex North to score? |
A Streetcar Named Desire |
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What movie (scored by Alex North) is the first Hollywood score to incorporate jazz? |
"A Streetcar Named Desire" |
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What was Leonard Rosenman's first movie (featured James Dean, caused him to be welcomed to Hollywood community)? |
"East of Eden" |
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What composer is known for bringing a modern sensibility and techniques to film music? |
Leonard Rosenman
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What composer had the longest career, and is one of the most influential? |
Elmer Bernstein |
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What movie (scored by Elmer Bernstein) features "in your face music" and a big band (sax, rhythm section, no strings)? |
"Man With A Golden Arm" |
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What movie catapulted Elmer Bernstein to the A-list, and caused him to be in demand for the rest of his career? |
"The Ten Commandments" |
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What movie (scored by Elmer Bernstein) was considered to be one of the best he ever did, but caused him to be type cast into Western music? |
"The Magnificent Seven"
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What movie did Elmer Bernstein score in which he focused on the "imaginative world of the child"? |
"To Kill A Mockingbird" |
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What shift in film music caused Elmer Bernstein to think his career was "bottoming out"? |
Film music began to be more song driven rather than score driven |
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What movie, towards the end of his career, caused Elmer Bernstein to become the in demand comedy composer? |
"National Lampoon's Animal House" |
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What movie launched a successful collaboration between Elmer Bernstein and Martin Scorsese? |
"The Grifters" |
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What is a "temp track"? |
A tool that every filmmaker uses - temporary music put into a scene to move it along and help figure out what the right music should be |
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What composer did not believe in temp tracks and asked to "see it without the music"? |
Elmer Bernstein |
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What movie was composer Jerome Moross's claim to fame? |
"The Big Country" |
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What composer did NOT devote his life and career to film music? |
Jerome Moross |
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What composer shared the desire to find the "Americana sound" in music? |
Jerome Moross |
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What composer had a kind of "Americana" feel to all his movies (a little like folk - knew what the music of the West sounded like)? |
Jerome Moross |
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What score caused Jerome Moross to become the big "Western" composer (as opposed to Dmitri Tiomkin) |
"Big Country" |
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What is the difference between Dimitri Tiomkin and Jerome Moross? |
With Tiomkin, it was American music written by Russian ex-patriots, whereas Moross was pure American |
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What composer was considered to be one of the most brilliant minds Hollywood ever had? |
Jerry Goldsmith |
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What movie did Jerry Goldsmith watch as a kid that made him want to write movie music for a living? |
Spellbound |
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What composer was the first to come out of TV and be successful in film? |
Jerry Goldsmith |
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Who scored "Planet of the Apes"? |
Jerry Goldsmith
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What movie was considered to be "a musical masterpiece", and demonstrated to filmmakers that anything goes as long as its effective? |
Planet of the Apes |
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"Music scoring for films is..." |
"...dramatic problem solving with music." |
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Who scored "Star Trek (The Motion Picture)" in 1979? |
Jerry Goldsmith |
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Who scored "Poltergeist"? |
Jerry Goldsmith |
