Modernism, atonality and avant-garde

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

Modernism, atonality and avant-garde · From the mid-1950s the language of modern concert music came into film. Leonard Rosenman, who had studied with Arnold Schönberg, wrote East of Eden (1955) and The Cobweb (1955). The latter is often regarded as Hollywood's first twelve-tone score. In Planet of the Apes (1968), Jerry Goldsmith used twelve-tone rows, a great deal of percussion and wind instruments played with unusual techniques. For 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Stanley Kubrick chose existing works by György Ligeti, and for The Shining (1980) music by Ligeti and Krzysztof Penderecki. In this way clusters, glissandi and atonality became the sound of fear, the unknown and space.

Listening

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  The Hunt · Jerry Goldsmith, 1968
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  Atmosphères · György Ligeti, 1968
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  Main Title · Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind, 1980

In School of Rock

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• Film Music Map^NL Map

See also

• Hanns Eisler
• Jonny Greenwood
• Elisabeth Lutyens
• Alex North
• Wendy Carlos
• Tōru Takemitsu
• Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind
• Film noir
• Ambient, drone and new modernism