14 Facts About Film music

The composer is shown an unpolished "rough cut" of the film before the editing is completed and talks to the director or producer about what sort of music is required for the film in terms of style and tone.

In some circumstances, a composer will be asked to write music based on their impressions of the script or storyboards without seeing the film itself and has more freedom to create music without the need to adhere to specific cue lengths or mirror the emotional arc of a particular scene.

The style of the music being written varies massively from project to project and can be influenced by the time period in which the film is set, the geographic location of the film's action, and even the musical tastes of the characters.

Once the Film music has been written, it must then be arranged or orchestrated in order for the ensemble to be able to perform it.

The nature and level of orchestration varies from project to project and composer to composer, but in its basic form the orchestrator's job is to take the single-line Film music written by the composer and "flesh it out" into instrument-specific sheet Film music for each member of the orchestra to perform.

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Once the orchestration process has been completed, the sheet Film music is physically printed onto paper by one or more Film music copyists and is ready for performance.

One prominent example is John Williams' score for the Star Wars saga, and the numerous themes in Star Wars Film music associated with individual characters such as Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, and Princess Leia.

An example of "source Film music" is the use of the Frankie Valli song "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" in Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter.

Some consider film music to be a defining genre of classical music in the late 20th century, if only because it is the brand of classical music heard more often than any other.

In 1983, a non-profit organization, the Society for the Preservation of Film Music, was formed to preserve the "byproducts" of creating a film score, including the music manuscripts and other documents and studio recordings generated in the process of composing and recording scores which, in some instances, have been discarded by movie studios.

The written Film music must be kept to perform the Film music on concert programs and to make new recordings of it.

These were often used to form catalogues of photoplay Film music, which had different subsections broken down by 'mood' and genre: dark, sad, suspense, action, chase, etc.

Sometimes called library music, the music is owned by production music libraries and licensed to customers for use in film, television, radio and other media.

The first production music library was set up by De Wolfe Music in 1927 with the advent of sound in film, the company originally scored music for use in silent film.