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Mar 29, 2013 - 6:21 AM
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ToneRow
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Hi, ajhfsm.
Let me try to be more descriptive with APPASSIONATA.
The musical content is basically this: Italian-style waltzes performed on electric organ, piano solos, comedic effects on the Moog, with some early disco.
Whether you will love all this or not depends on your personal tastes.
Piccioni's 1969 SCACCO ALLA REGINA, on the other hand, is primo lounge music at its most beguiling: bossa-nova beats, seductive serpentine melodies with wordless female vocalise, overall lush erotica, with some trippy scat, too. If you don't aleady have SCACCO ALLA REGINA, I recommend this way ahead of APPASSIONATA.
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Mar 29, 2013 - 12:04 PM
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Ken G
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music with groove
I'm curious about this statement, Ken G.
I am thinking that this criteria is an overall aesthetic of yours, and applies to all composers not only Piero Piccioni.
If so, then at what point during the time line do you consider groove to have started (and ended)?
Do you feel that 1964 was a watershed year (with The Beatles and Bond's GOLDFINGER) after which film scores veered away from the customary symphonic approach to aspire to be pop-music happenings?
Does this mean that your musical tastes don't lean towards historical epics from the 1950s or "old school" Westerns or even '50s monster movies?
Yet, you love Piero's LO STRANIERO & IL MONACA & his cloistered nuns from 1973, which are non-groove / dramatic Piccioni music ... unless you DO consider these to have groove in some way ...
Interesting comments and questions, ToneRow. Let me try to clarify/answer.
Firstly, you're absolutely right when you surmise that "groove" is important to me. I think I mentioned before on these boards that I came to film music only in the past few years. Soul (southern) and jazz (early 60s-early 70s) are my first loves, but I'm also a fan of funk, rock, pop, gospel, country, folk etc. and have a pretty extensive collection which includes these genres. I don't, however, own any classical music.
I'm really not qualified to say when the "groove timeline" started/ended in film music. There are far more knowledgeable posters here than me who can answer that! I really don't know - I haven't heard enough to comment (my film music collection is only about 250-300 titles - maybe about 5% of the music I own). I'd be very interested to hear what others think regarding the timeline!
I have been gradually listening to - and liking/loving - "historical epics" and "old school" westerns. For example, I have things like "The Big Country" and "Ben-Hur" in my small collection of film music, as well as the the non-groove Piero titles you mentioned. I'm also a big fan of things like "Lady in a Cage", "Wait Until Dark", "Rosemary's Baby", "THX1138" and "The Illustrated Man" to give just a few examples of non-groove based music I've gotten into in the past couple of years. So although "groove" is important to me, as I get older, my tastes are broadening and I'm more open to these different sounds. I guess this happens to most of us to some extent.
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