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Post by Emz on Feb 22, 2019 17:45:46 GMT -5
List your favorite album/ songs to write by.
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Post by Admin Kbatz on Feb 22, 2019 19:45:15 GMT -5
I thought of everything but music! Shame Kbatz, shame!
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Post by Emz on Feb 24, 2019 18:36:32 GMT -5
THANKS Kbatz for making this category.
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Post by Emz on Feb 24, 2019 18:39:12 GMT -5
Spooky music soundtracks I love to write to are: Interview with a Vampire Dracula (the musical)
Spooky bands I love to write by: Nosferatu Bauhaus The Damned P. Vampire Mephisto Walz Xorcist Switchblade Symphony Tool
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Post by Admin Kbatz on Feb 24, 2019 18:53:58 GMT -5
I like how the early Universal pics used classical music, like Swan Lake and Night on Bald Mountain. Those are always simmering mood setters.
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Post by sirotter on Jan 25, 2020 19:01:36 GMT -5
I like how the early Universal pics used classical music, like Swan Lake and Night on Bald Mountain. Those are always simmering mood setters.
All my favorite mood pieces to write to are classical, mostly from the Romantic period of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. The moderato from the beginning of Act 2 of Swan Lake is the piece most closely associated with the 1931 film version of Dracula, and pops up throughout the first cycle of Universal horror films. Old time radio also used classical pieces to set the mood. The Shadow (who knows... what evil... LURKS... in the hearts of men?) used part of Omphale's Spinning Wheel by Camille Saint-Saens for its theme music, while the horror anthology series Quiet, Please opened to the first bit of the second movement of Cesar Franck's Symphony in D Minor. D Minor, by the way, is a very popular key for darkly evocative music. Carl Orff's O Fortuna from his cantata Carmina Burana, so beloved of horror film makers since it was used in the 1976 film, The Omen, begins in D Minor.
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Post by Admin Kbatz on Jan 27, 2020 21:23:39 GMT -5
Hi Sirotter! Glad you are enjoying the Fun part of the Conference before the actually conference. Don't forget to make an Introduction threat in the Welcome section to say hello, too! Back on topic. I like the way people do the live music with Nosferatu showings. Amazing how different scores can change the dynamics. You are very knowledgeable in Classical Music! We just had Fantasia on the other day, another superb use of Night on Bald Mountain
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Post by sirotter on Jan 28, 2020 13:08:00 GMT -5
Hi Sirotter! Glad you are enjoying the Fun part of the Conference before the actually conference. Don't forget to make an Introduction threat in the Welcome section to say hello, too! I will do that, although I will try to be non-threatening. Classical was the music of choice in my house growing up. Dad also likes jazz, and Mom was an opera buff, so that was my musical world until Beatlemania got ahold of me when I was five or six. I spent the 60s with my ear glued to Top 40 radio, but went back to classical and opera once disco came along and ruined rock & roll. To this day, Fantasia is my favorite Disney film. I love Night on Bald Mountain, but Bach's Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor (there's that ghastly key!) and Dukas' Sorceror's Apprentice are also pretty spooky. I've been accumulating material for several years towards a comprehensive history of horror and the supernatural, and a large section of that work, should it ever be completed, will be devoted to classical music and opera. I've considered starting a blog and posting bits there, at least initially, but haven't gotten around to figuring out just how I want to do that yet.
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Post by Admin Kbatz on Jan 29, 2020 21:23:00 GMT -5
I watched a lecture series on the Great Courses Channel about The History of Sacred Music and it was fascinating to see how up until really the 20th century how classical music dominated initially as church compositions and then sponsored music. I am mostly a Beethoven fan, odd numbered symphonies are best!!
Today in the store the oldies radio station was playing 80s music and I was trying to say to the clerk how it's amazing to realize that new 80s music is now as old as the 60s music I was listening to in the 80s! She looked a little baffled but it is true!
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