ENNIO MORRICONE

ENNIO MORRICONE

Italian composer,orchestrator,conductor and former trumpet player.

Born in Rome, Italy in 1928 (age 87)

Over the past seven decades,Morricone has composed over 500 scores for cinema and television, as well as 100 classical works.

His filmography includes over 70 award-winning films.

Listen carefully to this selection of some of the best music fim composed by him.
This video includes some of the best soundtracks.

After having played in jazz bands in the 1950's he became an studio arranger and aghost writer for films and theather.
Ennio won his best original score  at the "Hateful Eight"
This director Quentin Tarantino accepts the award at the 2016 Golden Globes.

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Now, to finish with , I want to put you some questions.
*What new musical genre became popular as the film industry developed ?
*What is an award ?
*What does a soundtrack do ?
* Are soundtracks only music ?

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LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

"Life is Beautiful"

Film directed by Roberto Begnini in 1987.

Soundtrack composed by Nicola Piovani.

It won an Oscar for the Best Original score in 1988.

Listen to this street artist playing this theme with the harp in Rome,Italy.

Here you are the main theme music score to do some practise at home.

I wish you had plenty of entertainment !

SOUNDTRACKS

SOUNDTRACKS

In the 20th century as the film industry developed,
a new musical genre became popular.

It's commonly known as soundtrack.

"La la land"City of Stars (2016)

To compose this kind of music,musicians usually use the tonal classical music technique.

Many 20th century musicians composed soundtracks for many well-known movies.

"Sing"Animated Comedy Movie (2016)

Soundtracks have to accompany the action.

The special musical arragements are specially outstanding in horror films where the music is key to create  the sensation of fear or that something terrible is about to happen.

"Promise Reprise",from "Silent Hill"

Music helps create emotions,happiness, sadness and to bring images to life.

They are compose by professional musicians and interpreted by large symphonic orchestras.

Many soundtracks have been given awards,for instance :

Oscar for the best soundtrack.

CLASSICAL MUSIC IN THE 20TH CENTURY

CLASSICAL MUSIC IN THE 20TH CENTURY

Enjoy this funny video on Classical music!

Throughout the whole of the 20th century many changes took place in classical music.

These different musical styles can be divided into two groups:

* the musician that composed the traditional "tonal" music.

*the revolutionary composers that created "atonal" music.

THE TONAL TECHNIQUE

Despite the technological advances, mantained tonality and melody.

The Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo found inspiration in the compositions from the past and imitated the music from the Baroque and Classical eras.

He's classify as a "Neoclassic composer"

"Concierto de Aranjuez"

Other composers such as Gustav Mahler were heirs to the traditional romantic current.

They were named "Post Romantic composers"

Symphony no1 "Titan"composed by Gustav Mahler and conducted by Leonard Bernstein.

Other composers continued the romantic style of Nationalism characteristic of the 19th century.

Amongst these composers we can name the Hungarian Bela Bartók, the South American 

Alberto Ginastera and the Spanish Manuel de Falla.

Bela Bartók."Romanian Folk Dances"

 

Alberto Ginastera "Milonga"

Manuel de Falla "Nights in Spanish Gardens"

IDIOPHONES

IDIOPHONES

An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound/noise primarily by the instrument as a whole vibrating.

Most percussion instruments that are not drums. are idiophones.

Rhythm sticks or claves

Xylophone

Triangle

Maracas

Cymbals

Castanets

Little bells

Shekere

Glass bottle

Glass harp

Marimba

Cabasa

Flexatone / vibraslap

Glass harmonica

Güiro

Idiophones are made of materials that give off unique sounds/noises.

The majority of idiophones are made out of glass, metal, ceramics and wood.

Idiophones are considered part of the percussion section in the orquestra.

MEMBRANOPHONES

MEMBRANOPHONES

A membranophone is any musical instrument that produces noise primarily through a vibrating stretched membrane.

Some are played with drum strick or hands.

Other ones are stroken or shaken.

And, for instance, the zambomba is played in a particular way, is rubbed.

Let's take a careful look at some of them.

SNARE DRUM

CONGAS

DARBOUKA

DJEMBE

In this video they explain us the main differences between djembe and congas.

BASS DRUM

BONGOS

Enjoy the following bongos solo. It's amazing !

HAND DRUM

TAMBOURINE

Learn how to play accents on the tambourine.

ZAMBOMBA

KETTLE DRUM / TIMPANI

Listen to this introduction to timpani.

The general characteristics of percussion instruments.

- The larger instruments produce the deeper sound.- Their characteristic timbre depends on the material they are made of : metal,wood,plastic,etc.

- The timbre is also modified depending on what we hit them with : sticks,hard or soft mallets,beaters,etc.

- Instruments with a very tight, stretched membrane produce a higher sound.

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"THE MORNING MOOD"

"THE MORNING MOOD"

The Morning Mood is popularly known as just  "Morning".

It's a composition belonging to Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt op.23.

It was composed in 1875 as incidental music to Ibsen's play of the same name.

The melody/tune in the piece is alternating flute and oboe.

The piece depicts the rising of the sun.