A few of my junior high students have NEVER seen Beauty and the Beast!!! :( We listened to movie scores and analyzed what composer was thinking. I had them guess what movie the various songs came from.
Though... another music nerd moment... I realized that Alan Menken inserted a short motif from Be Our Guest into his score for the "West Wing/ Wolf Chase" scene to create irony, since obviously Belle was not feeling very welcome when she is kicked out of the castle... :) I played it again for my students to hear it. I just LOVE the complexity that music brings to movies, we take so much of it for granted.
Okay now I am starting to sound like my sister Jenny ;) ( love you sis!) But it is really true!
Here it is, see if you can hear it :)
Awesome :) Beauty and the Beast has a great score! It's of course not a surprise given that it's Alan Menken. Are you talking about at the beginning? Scores really are a wonderful thing :) what other songs did you show them?
ReplyDeleteYes I am talking about the beginning (well probably the first minute has the motif)
ReplyDeleteI showed them "Time" from Inception, Concerning Hobbits, Buckbeak's Flight, and the Dance scene from Tangled (one of the comments was, "Is this Egyptian music?" :)
Good choices! And you did end up showing Harry Potter! Did you talk about the sound of flying at all? I think we should probably discuss this over the phone or skype. Haha. :)
DeleteKinda... the kids were a bit distracted, though the ones who like music, really enjoyed this activity, the rest of them talked, a lot.... The ones who liked it became super excited with Harry Potter music and one of my students knew that the LOTR song was called Concerning Hobbits!
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