Happy Hump Day! Yesterday was National Film Score Day.
On April 3, National Film Score Day recognizes the musical masterpieces called “Film Scores” and, more specifically, the very talented composers who create them.
It’s my kind of day, since I love movie music. To celebrate, I’m posting music from the most recent Oscar, Grammy, and Emmy winners for film and TV scores and title songs.
First, the Academy Award winner for Original Score, the theme from “The Shape of Water” as performed at the BAFTA Awards this year.
Cirque du Soleil’s OVO inspired by the film ‘Shape of Water’.
Next, from this year’s Grammy winner, “Another Day of Sun” from “La La Land.” This also happens to be last year’s Oscar winner.
During the opening credits, the movie we are viewing is said to have been filmed in CINEMASCOPE (like the old-time musicals) and then the screen expands from box format to wide. We find ourselves on the 105/110 interchange in Los Angeles. People listen to various forms of music in their cars. Then one woman gets out of her vehicle and starts singing ANOTHER DAY OF SUN to the camera (à la a musical), a song about how great it is being in sunny California. Someone else exits his car and joins her. Pretty soon, everyone has left their car and is singing the song while dancing in the street or on the cars that are parked via the traffic jam, everything synchronized for the full-length musical number. Another Day of Sun
Music by Justin Hurwitz
Lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Performed by Nicholai Baxter, Marius De Vries, Briana Lee, Angela Parrish, and Sam Stone
Now I want to watch the movie.
Follow over the jump for videos of Emmy winning TV music from last season.
The winner of Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music at last year’s Emmy Awards was “Stranger Things.” It also won Outstanding Main Title Design. Two for one! Here is the winning title sequence and theme song.
The Emmy for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score) went to Jeff Beal, the only Emmy for “House of Cards” this year. To celebrate, I’m sharing two selections from the fifth season of “House of Cards.” First, House Of Cards, Chapter 63 “Saved My Life” by Jeff Beal.
Next, the fifth season’s version of the series theme song.
Once again, I’m concluding the diary proper by quoting Don Durito.
For those of you wondering how I and Neon Vincent are circumventing Sucuri to embed videos, here is an example of the embed code we use, so that you can replicate as wanted:
Just remember that each unique 11-digit video code in YouTube needs to be pasted in two separate locations within the embed code in order for your video to show up properly. So easy that I can do it!
With those instructions, feel free to post your favorite music videos in the comments.
