Thank you for the clarification, I may have had my scene's mixed up -
I did recall it having something to do with the witch and there is a
"witch theme" that I think is in both segments of the film (a sort of
"marching" roll to it).
heard.
I think the PBS credits on the program listed what I took to be the
end credit montage as having "fragments" or some other term indicating
mixed pieces - unfortunately it has been a long time since I saw the
PBS show and have mostly lost the details of the little I did dig up
at the time.
I posted a query about it back at the time, but never heard anything
and recently had the unanswered question surface and tried again. Just
a point of complete random curiosity ;>
Thanks again for the info and likely suspect to solve the musical
mystery.
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 21:53:02 -0500, PowerPost 2K <no.one@noname.com>
wrote:
>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:
>>
>>> 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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