Through trial and error, different styles and different ways of accompanying films changed. Film and music did not always perfectly align, and over decades the elements of music and film were slowly incorporated together. An example from King Kong would be the chords heard in the underscore reinforcing the footfalls of the native chief of Skull Island as he approaches the film crew. An early film that showed how music could benefit the action seen on screen is King Kong. Underscoring and intrinsic music are now both used meticulously and precisely. Sometimes this didn’t make sense in films, such as a scene of a lonely trumpeter accompanied by a full orchestra in the underscore but yet the site of the single instrumentalist makes the music the audience is hearing seem like a part of the scene. Filmmakers thought that in order for the music to make sense it has to have a source. Films that used music as a focal point of the film, with scenes of characters singing or dancing to music that is a part of the scene. Intrinsic music, early on, came in the form of musicals. Other films didn’t use music at all, or very little. An example of a film that uses underscoring throughout almost the entirety of the film is Metropolis. ![]() Once sound and film was combined, the use or music in films was usually always present or not at all. Cue sheets were introduced and then orchestras started using specific pieces for certain scenes and films.
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