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Disney and classic cartoons (Mickey Mousing)

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Genre

Disney and classic cartoons (Mickey Mousing) · With Steamboat Willie (1928) Walt Disney released a cartoon with synchronized sound. Image and sound were matched to each other in advance, so that every jump had a musical counterpart. This precise imitation of movement is called Mickey Mousing. Carl Stalling wrote the music for The Skeleton Dance (1929) and later worked for more than twenty years at Warner Bros., where he strung together quotations from classical and popular repertoire at high speed. His successor Milt Franklyn adapted music by Wagner for What's Opera, Doc? (1957). Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) made songs the heart of the feature-length animated film. In Fantasia (1940) Disney turned it around: Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra played concert music and the animators made images to go with it.

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Listening tip. Hear how every movement gets a sound of its own: a glissando for a fall, pizzicato for a creeping step, a cymbal crash for a collision.

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