Archive for tag: Angelo Badalamenti

Keeping Score – Musique Noir: Investigating the Sound of Film Noir

2 April, 2009 (19:48) | by Robert C. Cumbow, Film music, Film Noir | By: Robert C. Cumbow

The sound of noir—plaintive sax solos, blue cocktail piano, the wail of a distant trumpet through dark, wet alleyways, hot Latin beats oozing like a neon glow from the half-shuttered windows of forbidden nightspots. You walk the sidewalks of big, lonely towns, with no destination in mind, following only the sounds, guided by them, wondering [...]

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Keeping Score – Scary Music: the Sequel

13 February, 2009 (00:04) | by Robert C. Cumbow, Film music, Horror | By: Robert C. Cumbow

For last Halloween, I offered a list of 13 movie scores that I believe stand out as landmarks in the in the history of scary movie music. I got some comments from a few readers who were disappointed that some of their own favorite fright film scores and composers weren’t represented. Well, there’s a lot [...]

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