Great Music Composition in Scenes

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Pondering Pam

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Was there ever a scene in a movie or cartoon where it was the music that just totally took you away? If there was no music, you wouldn't feel as strongly about it?

This isn't including musicals.

In the episode "Clum Babies" of Drawn Together, at the end, Bob the Cucumber from the Veggie Fables gang goes on a killing rampage throughout the house. For me, it was the music that just totally made it dramatic and awesome to watch. It gave me this feeling of "This isn't an oridinary Drawn Together killing, Wooldoor better GTFO of the house."
 
Music has a great deal to do with the emotional aspect of what we see. Just as good music influences us in acceptance, bad music can make a scene or sequence seem poor. To reach back in time as an example, those who are discovering the lost Fleischer series of 1940 such as the ANIMATED ANTICS will notice that they resemble Warner Brothers imitations in their design and execution of animation. While beautifully animated, the stories are ruined by poor music and dreadful arrangements by Sammy Timberg, who had done better work on the POPEYE series. As a point of grammatical accuracy, I beleive you mean to say "Musical Composition," not "Music Composition."
 
I mentioned this at GAC too, but the scene in the Looney Tunes cartoon "Birds Anonymous" where Sylvester is wide awake at night, unable to sleep because of his withdrawal from Tweety, the music when he's changing sleeping positions (unsuccessful in all of them) is done well. I particularly love the climax of that scene when the camera zooms in on his shaking face- the music gets appropriately tense and finally explodes in a blare of brass as Sylvester snaps and frantically goes after Tweety, breaking his oath not to eat birds.

I also love how a moment later, when Sylvester hits rock bottom, the same melody from the aforementioned scene is used, only more forlorn. I think it's neat when composers use the same tune, only in a new orchestration to accentuate a different tone.

It's definitely one of Milt Franklyn's best moments as composer.
 
I like when characters have their own music background.Like Terra from Teen Titans had a sort of sweet,questful type of music to her (when she wasn't an evil character :sweat: ).Music composition in movies and shows also help the story along and provoke feelings.Even if we don't go to the movies for it,we do. ;)
 
The climax of The Secret Of NIMH, when Mrs. Brisby uses the power of the stone to rescue her family, features an absolutely spine-tingling cue by composer Jerry Goldsmith ("The House Raising" on the CD). Goldsmith's entire score to that movie is wonderful, but that choral cue always has stood out to me.
 
There definiely needs to be more animation soundtrack releases. There are too many great scores out there for them not to be released.
 
Just about all the musical scoring in the classic Looney Tunes shorts blows me away. Carl Stalling was a musical genius. The music in the classic Looney Tune "One Froggy Evening" is my very fave. (Yeah, I know that cartoon is a musical, kind of, but tough). Love every minute of it, especially the tune "Hello My Ragtime Gal". Rocks! I'd LOVE a CD of it.

The scoring from The Lion King is also wonderful. Especially when Simba ascends Pride Rock to take his place as king. And the sad music when Mufasa dies.
 
Music? In animation? Isn't it just 'sproing, yayaya doink"?

No. Often as I'm watching a show, especially animated, I'm struck at how well the background music is bringing the emotion along. One of the main components that I chose great animation by is how well the music blends. I generally have to go back more than on once because the best is almost seamless and it isn't noticed.
 
You sure love saying that, don't you...

Some of my favourite musical moments are in the Raccoons. In the pre-series Lost Star special, as well as the first episode, when the heroes escape Cyril's base by air, and the main Raccoons instrumental theme plays, it sends a shiver down my spine. I always love it when they play variations on that theme in the episodes, which they didn't do very often.
 
Well, four things come to mind:

The Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 and Night on Bold Mountain sequences in Fantasia. I'm not a Disney fan but I' am paticulary fond of the use of the music in those sequences.

But the way Neon Genesis Evangelion handled classical music in episodes 22 and 24 are my all time favorites. For Episode 22, I just love how "Hallujah!" is used in a more disturbing sequence. Good stuff! :evil:

For episode 24, the music fits the sequence with Shinji, Kaowru, and the Evas very well in my opinion since no other piece of music could've fit that scene.
 
It's one of the reasons the WB theatrical shorts were called "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie(-y) Melodies".

Music:Cartoons :: Jelly:Peanut Butter.

James Venable. Shiro Sagisu. Yoko Kanno.

And just try watching Death Note without noticing the music. Anime fans know more about 'Dies Irae' because of this show. (Thank you, Yoshitani Hirano....)

And...Disney. The rest is commentary.
 
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