MUSIC IN FILM A brief history of soundtrack
MUSICAL LOANS
Apart from the original music, there are loans that come from classic and popular music. It takes advantage of the knowledge and acceptance by the spectators in order to create specific emotinal inluences. There have been films about the biographies of musicians such as “Amadeus”, “Farinelli”, “Copying Beethoven”.
AMADEUS
FARINELLI
POP AND ROCK IN SOUNDTRACKS
Fashionable songs are present in films thanks to films with Elvis Presley and The Beatles as the main characters. During the 60’s and 70’s the political and social convulsions of that moment, the Vietnam War, the students revolutions (May 68 events) that made youth searched evasion and refugee in the hippy movement and the protest song had a reflect in a cinema that felt the necessity of embracing such an important public. Nowadays, cinema not only use successful songs but also helps new performers to get fame and retake old songs by forgotten performers.