The Music of Fantasy Cinema - Janet K. Halfyard
Fantasy Meets Electronica: Legend and the Music of Tangerine Dream
The Music of Fantasy Cinema - Janet K. Halfyard
Lee Barron [+]
Northumbria University
Lee Barron is a senior lecturer in Media and Communication at Northumbria University. His main research and teaching interests are in the areas of cultural theory,
media and popular culture. His writings have appeared in journals such as Fashion Theory, The Journal of Popular Culture and International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music.
Description
This chapter looks at a specific moment of conflict between orchestral and electronic scores in the music for Ridley Scott’s Legend (1985), where production company concerns about the audience reception of the film resulted in the UK release using the original orchestral score by Jerry Goldsmith and the US release having a different cut of the film with a score by the German electronica group Tangerine Dream.