Brief History of Important Film Scores

Music 80M Brief History of Important Film Scores (not necessarily great films, but films that made history for film music)

1895 (December 28)

Lumiere Brothers (first music with film)

1928

Lights of New York (first soundie)

1936

Carl Stalling goes to Warner Bros.

1938

Prokofiev scores Alexander Nevsky

Erich Korngold scores The Adventures of Robin Hood

1942

Bambi by Frank Churchill

1944

Laura by David Raskin

1951

The Day the Earth Stood Still by Bernard Herrmann

1952

High Noon by Dimitri Tiomkin

1958-60

Hitchcock trilogy by Bernard Herrmann

1963

The Birds by Remi Gassmann

1964

Hard Day's Night by the Beatles

1969

2001 (music by temp track)

1977

Stars Wars by John Williams

1978

Close Encounters of the Third Kind by John Williams

1979

Apocalypse Now by Mickey Hart

1982

Blade Runner by Vangelis

1983

Koyaanisqatsi by Philip Glass

1984

Amadeus music by Mozart

1985

The Color Purple by Quincy Jones + 18 others