Festival Mdp International

Festival of the Indipendent Cinema

Cinema and Music

by admin on June 22, 2012

Cinema and music seems two completely different worlds. The truth is that they, most of the time, belong to the same world as music is always used in movies to emphasize certain scenes and to give real emotions to the public.

The origins of musical presence in cinema reflect the diversity of a popular phenomenon born in exhibitions and in the cabaret, at the beginning of the twentieth century. The highly heterogeneous nature of the music has always been a good fact for cinema and its diffusion. On the other hand, cinema and movies often promoted a certain song or author, leading then to the international prominence (the data on this study by the rock magazine Rockol.com show it clearly).

The birth of films, the first large-scale organization of production companies and technical improvements helped a lot the the presence of the music itself in movies.

To understand the importance of music in movies we can just think about the “Academy Awards for Best Original Score”, an award given each year to the best movie soundtrack.

Among winners in the past we have seen soundtracks of the best movies in history of the cinema, such as “The Full Monty” and “Titanic”, both in 1997, “Shakespeare in Love” in 1998, “The Lord of the rings” both in 2001 and 2003. In the history of this award, the most winning author has been Alfred Newman, american composer, who also received the highest number of nominations (he shared the first place with John Williams, american composer and pianist).

Music and cinema have always been together and they’ll always be.

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