Beauty and the Beast
I just watched Beauty and the Beast on VHS with my Disney Fakebook next to me, checking out the music on paper as it played through my ear-phones. What an amazing movie; what amazing music. In case you didn't know, the composer of this film's music (and Little Mirmaid, Aladdin, Hercules, Mulan, Pocahontas) is Alan Menkin, and he is one of my all time favorite composers. He's just utterly amazing.
And another amazing thing about Beauty and the Beast is how the music is synched so masterfully with the animation. It really blows my mind to imagine the work involved in going from ideas, sketches and plot diagrams, to adding voice and timing and music. How is music so perfectly composed to fit the film? I wonder how much the film revolves around the music. Certainly some spots are not so music-focused, letting it simply fill the background; and then other times they are full-fledged musicals. But there's also all this gray area where the plot progresses and the music reflects the animation with good time and I wonder how it is done so precisely and how the music still flows without having abrupt and awkward moments.
Anyway, this is what I do for fun, obviously. I have to admit I am a total "classic" Disney fan, especially of the music, but also the movies, meaning I watched Beauty in the Beast with a gleam in my eye and love in my heart. I want an enchanted first-hand love story experience. I want my life to be full of this and the correspesonding music.
And another amazing thing about Beauty and the Beast is how the music is synched so masterfully with the animation. It really blows my mind to imagine the work involved in going from ideas, sketches and plot diagrams, to adding voice and timing and music. How is music so perfectly composed to fit the film? I wonder how much the film revolves around the music. Certainly some spots are not so music-focused, letting it simply fill the background; and then other times they are full-fledged musicals. But there's also all this gray area where the plot progresses and the music reflects the animation with good time and I wonder how it is done so precisely and how the music still flows without having abrupt and awkward moments.
Anyway, this is what I do for fun, obviously. I have to admit I am a total "classic" Disney fan, especially of the music, but also the movies, meaning I watched Beauty in the Beast with a gleam in my eye and love in my heart. I want an enchanted first-hand love story experience. I want my life to be full of this and the correspesonding music.