Chapter 13Music
Kinds of Film Music
If you are in the habit of watching movies until the last credit has rolled (a very instructive practice for any budding filmmaker, by the way), you’ve no doubt become accustomed to the blizzard of text that appears on-screen as soon as the music credits begin. Typically, a song title is accompanied by a cluster of credits that identify the song’s lyricist, composer and performer. Various companies associated with the composition or recording are often mentioned as well. If you can take in all this information as it flies by, you may be surprised by some of the entries. You recognize a favorite tune, but you’d swear that you never heard a note of it in the film. Guess what? You may be right: sometimes credit ...
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