I tracked down the:
"The Happy Farmer, Op. 68, No. 10 -- Urtext by Schumann :
This brisk and merry Happy Farmer is the tenth of 43 short piano
pieces in the Album for the Young, Op. 68 by Robert Schumann.
And it is indeed the musical piece I was looking for ! Thanks again
for pointing things in the right direction ! Minor mystery completely
resolved ;>
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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