Music in Movies
Some notes and curiosities regarding the way music is used in films.
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The “Colonel Bogey March”, or “theme from the Bridge on the River Kwai” as it’s occasionally mistakenly called, began life in 1914, when it was pseudonymously written by Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts, inspired by a golfer and military man who would apparently give a two-note whistle in place of shouting ‘fore!’. Those two notes provide the beginning of each line of the melody. (more…)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
You know more scores by veteran film composer Bernard Herrmann than you think you do. (more…)
