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Thread #167375 Message #4036284
Posted By: meself
26-Feb-20 - 12:24 PM
Thread Name: Anachronistic Music in Movies
Subject: RE: Anachronistic Music in Movies
I'm more forgiving of anachronistic steam engines or WWII bombers; it can't always be easy to get your hands on the right ones, even if you do care. I just find it odd that if a director says to a fiddler, 'We need you to play a lively tune for scene in a movie set in 1800', the fiddler wouldn't ask himself what tunes might have been around in that era. I doubt it's the director or the music director who's choosing the specific tunes, in most cases.