1.) The Jazz singer ( being the first score for a non silent movie ever 2.) The Graduate ( bringing pop music into filmscoring) 3.) The man with the golden arm ( bringing jazz music into film scoring) 4.) Forbidden Planet ( bringing electronic into filmscoring ) 5.) King Kong ( being the first score exclusivly composed for a motion picture ( not Silent movie )) 6.) Star Wars ( bringing back the symphonic ) 7.) Planet of the Apes ( for its avantgardistic influence) 8.) The Third Man ( for introducing a motiv as a character ) 9.) A fistful of dollars ( introducing the "spagehtti"sound) 10.) The Birds ( for the non existence of a score but for its basic sounddesign)
Where would we be without people posting lists? There'd probably only be 3 posts in the forum otherwise. Let me make a list of them. Almost forgot - Grrrr!!!!
However, Man with the Golden Arm sure had more impact, the first score to have jazz in it’s score was Streetcar Named Desire.
Notable also is Ben Hur, which littarly invented the music for Romans. During his research Rozsa concluded that Rome didn’t have a musical tradition of his own and used trumpets and fanfares instead. Nowadays we can’t see military masses without Rozsa’s design.
However, Man with the Golden Arm sure had more impact, the first score to have jazz in it’s score was Streetcar Named Desire.
Notable also is Ben Hur, which littarly invented the music for Romans. During his research Rozsa concluded that Rome didn’t have a musical tradition of his own and used trumpets and fanfares instead. Nowadays we can’t see military masses without Rozsa’s design.
While Ben Hur is the most notable of Rozsa's historical epic scores, it did not invent Roman music. That distinction goes to Rozsa's earlier score for Quo Vadis.
You included Star Wars, Moolik. I'm proud of you!!
But I don't understand the angry face, either...
Quotation marks can be a sign of sarcasm. Add in lil' angry avatar and one might think he's pissed that these titles have been selected for this list (presumably made by someone else, otherwise the quotations are meaningless). But on the internet, it's hard to know when someone is being ironic or subtle, and 2+2 often equals the square root of pie. As someone else hinted, maybe he's just preemptively angry at impending criticism.
Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov) Carmina Burana (Orff) The Rite of Spring (Stravinsky) The Planets (Holst) Also Sprach Zarathustra (Strauss) Rodeo (Copland)
They didn't know they were writing film scores at the time. But that's what these scores ended up as, one way or another. Any single one of these had far more positive influence on film music than all the stuff combined that Zimmer has produced in his entire career.
