Primary Approaches of Music in Early Sound Films
First Approach:
- Have music present throughout the entire production - "wall-to-wall"
- Filmmakers were accustomed to music accompanying their silent films throughout
- The practice of late nineteenth-century opera composers-Richard Wagner
Second Approach:
- To use music only as source music-Only when the "source" of the music can be seen on screen
Frankenstein
Released in 1931
Starring Boris Karloff
One of Universal Studio's great masterpieces
The viewer would expect to hear a substantial amount of dramatic music to support the film
The only music heard is during the main title and end tile sequences and on three occasions as source music
@ 47 minutes
@ 51 minutes
@ 56 minutes
Starring Boris Karloff
One of Universal Studio's great masterpieces
The viewer would expect to hear a substantial amount of dramatic music to support the film
The only music heard is during the main title and end tile sequences and on three occasions as source music
@ 47 minutes
@ 51 minutes
@ 56 minutes
Main title music by Bernhard Kaun (1899-1980). Specialized in writing music for horror-themed films.
Meet The Monster (no music)
Famous scene from movie....
End credit music was selected from a work called "Grand Appassionato" written in the 1920s by Giuseppe Becce (1877-1973)