On the contrary, the one pre-existing tune that is heard a prior to
the appearance of Miss Gulch is Schumann's "The Merry Farmer", i.e.
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 23:37:08 -0600, Spelvin <onceuponam@tress.com>
wrote:
>TheSnipe <Feedmenospam@yahoo.com> wrote in
>news:hdvbeateou9756apsmg9ng9ujrq2eqjs3a@4ax.com:
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>> 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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