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Thread #127320   Message #3032085
Posted By: MGM·Lion
14-Nov-10 - 03:51 PM
Thread Name: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Music Scenes in Film
Just read back thru thread. Someone above uses adjective 'goofy' in some context: which reminds me to observe that the musical tracks to any Disney, WB, Fleischer [e.g. Betty Boop], MGM, &c, cartoons are always so perfectly geared to the content as to form a perfect gestalt.

I remember long years ago [must be 65 years] reading the observation in a book called "This Thing Called Ballet" by George Borodin [ballet was an early-teen thing of mine], something to the effect that choreographers and composers could learn from the perfect match of Disney's musical scores to his content: "When you see a fish open its mouth you simultaneously hear a bit of music so perfectly judged that, if you stop to think about it, you wonder if, seeing the fish you would have heard the music in your head, or hearing the music you would have visualised the fish." [From memory; but, as I say, to that effect.]

~Michael~