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Farewell to John Barry and tribute to film music!

John Barry

What would the movie without music and that would music without the film? The prolific film music and the latter allowed him to touch and reach every man and woman around the world. At the same time, film helped popularize classical music that would not have as many public without the support of the image.

music somehow was the first method of "relief" in film history when he became music and talking, opening a depth in the range of feelings of every spectator modulating such a scene, highlighting another, exhilarating or chilling situation, making even the aura of some characters as would a "fragrance." Thus, music is inseparable from certain penetrating works because each frame of film at its very heart, it has merged with him.

Charlie Chaplin

Music so indispensable that Charlie Chaplin spent the rest of his life writing music on his silent films, to refine and finish his film work, as Leonardo Da Vinci in the field of painting retouched his paintings for decades!

A few days ago disappeared fabulous composer who influenced the history of cinema like no other: John Barry! Almost fifty years of flawless creation or loss of inspiration and renewed each time. Composers who also last a long time are very rare. He also wrote symphonic works to be discovered emergency. Among his most significant works, I quote:

The girl with the sun in Her Hair

Midnight Cowboy

Out of Africa

Dances with Wolves

Americans

The beyondness of Things

(see biography link)

Maurice Jarre

Another splendid figure in the world of film music is that of Maurice Jarre, with its unique ability to write melodies and sumptuous also very inspired throughout his long career. Maurice Jarre musical dazzling colors found in countless films, including:

Lawrence of Arabia

Doctor Zhivago

Jesus of Nazareth

The Dead Poets

Ryan's Daughter

(see biography link)

Nino Rota

Should we add one of the largest Nino Rota and Michel Legrand? Without the play of each instrument there is no symphonic work possible and without the addition of pictures, music, acting, scenario and dialogues there is no conceivable film, at least for me. However, there are very beautiful poetic achievements where only images and music stand. However, films without musical envelope does not personally affected me.

film Live Free, Elsa Lioness

When I was a child film music was particularly marked, that of film "Living Free" by James Hill, written by John Barry. The film tells the story of a couple who takes care of an animal reserve in Africa and rescues and adopt a lion cub named "Elsa." Thereafter they will try to make Elsa to the wild in him re-learning to live free and independent. Music structure shocking story full of humanity between a couple and a lioness and calls for universal values before the letter (the film was released in 1966) Ecology and ecosophy (see Felix Guattari). I admit that it made me cry long because this music is a huge emotion, a rare form of happiness, and gives the feeling approaching a great time at a high degree of sensitivity. What interplay between image and writing music!

Youtube "live free"

While classical music was confined more and more among the elites, music in film touched more and more people. It seems there had long been a contempt of the proponents of the first vis-à-vis this form of music popular and considered inferior.

Camille Saint Saens

This is in fact only recently recognized that these composers are full and that the classical music magazines such as radios and other specialized media finally give them their proper place, forgetting that it was Saint-Saëns himself, who wrote the first film in the history of cinema in 1908 with an orchestra to accompany the screening of the silent film "The Assassination of the Duke of Guise .

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John Barry

Maurice Jarre

Nino Rota

Michel Legrand

Charlie Chaplin

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