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Subject: Re: Does anyone know what classical music is used for the under score in the twister scene in the Wizard Of Oz ?
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TheSnipe <Feedmenospam@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:hdvbeateou9756apsmg9ng9ujrq2eqjs3a@4ax.com:
> The music playing in the background of the scene as Dorthy is in the
> twister and a pair of rowing guys in a boat go by and a cow flies
> thru...
>
> Also is the "Wicked Old Witch" motif a separate thing or part of the
> same piece ?
>
> I heard the "twister music" used at the tail end of a PBS program and
> the program had nothing to do with the "Wizard of Oz" and it seemed
> like it was a classical piece.
>
> I got the impression the piece was part of a classical collective of
> musical musing...
>
There's nothing taken from a classical piece there. It's Herbert
Stothart's background score, a lot of which was based on themes from the
songs by Harold Arlen. When the cow and the rowers go by, it's a
variation on the song "The Merry Old Land of Oz," heard much later in
the movie.
This also answers the question about the "Wicked Witch" motif. It's not
part of "the same piece," because there is no "piece." That's her
"theme," probably original with Stothart, who was MGM's top scorer of
movies in that era. (He won the Oscar for Best Original Score for "The
Wizard of Oz," beating no less than Aaron Copland for "Of Mice and
Men," Max Steiner for "Gone with the Wind," and several other top names
of the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood.)
The score is classical all on its own, incorporating the sound and
concepts of classical music, including, of course, Wagnerian motifs for
the characters.
There's no reason why a PBS program, or any program, having nothing to
do with "The Wizard of Oz" can't use the music from it. There used to
be a news program that used a theme from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
I hope this helps, because I never know if I'm making myself clear. But
I keep trying.
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