[Fmpro] Carl Stalling scores

[Fernando Rivas]

He quoted from many classical sources and created so many 'mickey mousing'
fx such as the pizzicato for tip-toeing or sneaking around.  Such things
eventually became cliché but he was the originator.  It's interesting that
his cartoon music is completely atonal, or at least pantonal, and because it
moves constantly through tonal areas it doesn't generate the sense of
twentieth century angst that the modernist atonalists were so fond of. He
used the complexity for humor instead of neurotic depressiveness. It still
is incredibly complex and must have posed great challenges to the small
ensembles that had to record it.

FR 


On 8/18/06 1:35 PM, "Howard Lipp" <digitalwizzard at mindspring.com> wrote:

> He also was a brilliant composer whose music set the standard for greatness
> in animated score.
> I believe that his music was as important to the content as the picture.
> I also believe that watching all of those warner brothers cartoons that
> Stalling scored
> is in a large part responsible for my deep love of music, especially
> classical.
> 
> Howard
> 
> Namaste
> 
> 
>> [Original Message]
>> From: Fernando Rivas <rivas2750 at comcast.net>
>> To: <fmpro at nxport.com>
>> Date: 8/18/2006 9:45:44 AM
>> Subject: [Fmpro] Carl Stalling scores
>> 
>> 
>> Does anyone on the list know where Stalling's scores for Warner Bros.
>> cartoons may be obtained?  I've just been doing a bit of fascinating
>> research into that whole world. I didn't know that Stalling invented the
>> click track or that he was influenced by Raymond Scott's music (to the
> point
>> of using it in 120 features!).  For those who may not know - Raymond Scott
>> is, before Bob Moog, one of the originators of the sequencer-synthesizer.
>> 
>> Fernando Rivas
>> 
>> 
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