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Dies Irae

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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The DS-Earning in Film Music

In the late 1800s, it became possible to make narrative stories out of so-called moving pictures or films. When you went to see a movie in the silent film era, there was usually a pianist improvising music for what was happening on screen. We don't have any recordings of film music from this era, but there's a good chance that these pianists brought in the DS-era when a scene called for it. As we move into the 40s and 50s, Hollywood moves towards film noir, sort of after World War II,. So you start to see more jazz influences in film scores.

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