North and Kubrick between Ligeti and Vaughan Williams for the 2001 Soundtrack

The story of the missed collaboration between Alex North and Stanley Kubrick for the soundtrack of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is faced, in the light of the recently recorded North score for the film. The score highlights not only the too close analogies of North’s various music cues with...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pinamonti, Paolo
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Italian
Published: Dipartimento di Scienze per la Qualità della vita (QuVi) - Università di Bologna 2021
Subjects:
Online Access:https://cinergie.unibo.it/article/view/12915
https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/12915
id ftunivbolognaojs:oai:journals.unibo.it:article/12915
record_format openpolar
spelling ftunivbolognaojs:oai:journals.unibo.it:article/12915 2023-05-15T14:15:31+02:00 North and Kubrick between Ligeti and Vaughan Williams for the 2001 Soundtrack North e Kubrick tra Ligeti e Vaughan Williams per la colonna sonora di 2001 Pinamonti, Paolo 2021-08-04 text/html application/pdf https://cinergie.unibo.it/article/view/12915 https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/12915 ita ita Dipartimento di Scienze per la Qualità della vita (QuVi) - Università di Bologna https://cinergie.unibo.it/article/view/12915/13005 https://cinergie.unibo.it/article/view/12915/13006 https://cinergie.unibo.it/article/view/12915 doi:10.6092/issn.2280-9481/12915 Copyright (c) 2021 Paolo Pinamonti https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti; N. 19 (2021); 217-230 Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti; No. 19 (2021); 217-230 2280-9481 10.6092/issn.2280-9481/v10-n19-2021 Film Music Alex North Stanley Kubrick Ralph Vaughan Williams info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article Articolo referato 2021 ftunivbolognaojs https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/12915 https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/v10-n19-2021 2021-08-10T22:11:31Z The story of the missed collaboration between Alex North and Stanley Kubrick for the soundtrack of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is faced, in the light of the recently recorded North score for the film. The score highlights not only the too close analogies of North’s various music cues with the temporary tracks chosen by Kubrick but also their original position in the film; film that has suffered until the last many changes. In this research, an aspect that has not been investigated so far has emerged- that of the relationship between North’s music and that of Vaughan Williams, author of the soundtrack for Charles Frend’s film Scott of Antartic (1948). This film curiously has some similarities with Kubrick’s masterpiece, montage of photographic images with special effects, prevalence in the mixing of ‘natural’ noises over music. Furthermore, the analysis of the soundtrack, made from the composer’s point of view, does not want to question the integrity of the filmic text, but, in the light of more recent studies (Platte, 2018), open a plural perspective. Si affronta la vicenda della mancata collaborazione tra North e Kubrick per la colonna sonora del film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), alla luce della partitura di North recentemente incisa. Si evidenziano così non solo le troppo strette analogie dei vari music cues di North con le temporary tracks scelte da Kubrick ma anche la loro posizione originaria nel film; film che ha subito sino all’ultimo molti cambiamenti. In tale ricerca è emerso un aspetto poco indagato sinora, quello del rapporto tra la musica di North e quella di Vaughan Williams, autore della colonna sonora per il film di Charles Frend Scott of Antartic (1948). Questo film ha curiosamente alcune analogie con il capolavoro di Kubrick, montaggio di immagini fotografiche con effetti speciali, prevalenza nel mixaggio dei rumori ‘naturali’ sulla musica. Inoltre l’analisi della colonna sonora, fatta dal punto di vista del compositore, non vuole mettere in discussione l’integrità del testo filmico, ma, alla luce di più recenti studi (Platte, 2018), aprire una prospettiva plurale. Article in Journal/Newspaper antartic* AlmaDL Journals (University of Bologna)
institution Open Polar
collection AlmaDL Journals (University of Bologna)
op_collection_id ftunivbolognaojs
language Italian
topic Film Music
Alex North
Stanley Kubrick
Ralph Vaughan Williams
spellingShingle Film Music
Alex North
Stanley Kubrick
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Pinamonti, Paolo
North and Kubrick between Ligeti and Vaughan Williams for the 2001 Soundtrack
topic_facet Film Music
Alex North
Stanley Kubrick
Ralph Vaughan Williams
description The story of the missed collaboration between Alex North and Stanley Kubrick for the soundtrack of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is faced, in the light of the recently recorded North score for the film. The score highlights not only the too close analogies of North’s various music cues with the temporary tracks chosen by Kubrick but also their original position in the film; film that has suffered until the last many changes. In this research, an aspect that has not been investigated so far has emerged- that of the relationship between North’s music and that of Vaughan Williams, author of the soundtrack for Charles Frend’s film Scott of Antartic (1948). This film curiously has some similarities with Kubrick’s masterpiece, montage of photographic images with special effects, prevalence in the mixing of ‘natural’ noises over music. Furthermore, the analysis of the soundtrack, made from the composer’s point of view, does not want to question the integrity of the filmic text, but, in the light of more recent studies (Platte, 2018), open a plural perspective. Si affronta la vicenda della mancata collaborazione tra North e Kubrick per la colonna sonora del film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), alla luce della partitura di North recentemente incisa. Si evidenziano così non solo le troppo strette analogie dei vari music cues di North con le temporary tracks scelte da Kubrick ma anche la loro posizione originaria nel film; film che ha subito sino all’ultimo molti cambiamenti. In tale ricerca è emerso un aspetto poco indagato sinora, quello del rapporto tra la musica di North e quella di Vaughan Williams, autore della colonna sonora per il film di Charles Frend Scott of Antartic (1948). Questo film ha curiosamente alcune analogie con il capolavoro di Kubrick, montaggio di immagini fotografiche con effetti speciali, prevalenza nel mixaggio dei rumori ‘naturali’ sulla musica. Inoltre l’analisi della colonna sonora, fatta dal punto di vista del compositore, non vuole mettere in discussione l’integrità del testo filmico, ma, alla luce di più recenti studi (Platte, 2018), aprire una prospettiva plurale.
format Article in Journal/Newspaper
author Pinamonti, Paolo
author_facet Pinamonti, Paolo
author_sort Pinamonti, Paolo
title North and Kubrick between Ligeti and Vaughan Williams for the 2001 Soundtrack
title_short North and Kubrick between Ligeti and Vaughan Williams for the 2001 Soundtrack
title_full North and Kubrick between Ligeti and Vaughan Williams for the 2001 Soundtrack
title_fullStr North and Kubrick between Ligeti and Vaughan Williams for the 2001 Soundtrack
title_full_unstemmed North and Kubrick between Ligeti and Vaughan Williams for the 2001 Soundtrack
title_sort north and kubrick between ligeti and vaughan williams for the 2001 soundtrack
publisher Dipartimento di Scienze per la Qualità della vita (QuVi) - Università di Bologna
publishDate 2021
url https://cinergie.unibo.it/article/view/12915
https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/12915
genre antartic*
genre_facet antartic*
op_source Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti; N. 19 (2021); 217-230
Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti; No. 19 (2021); 217-230
2280-9481
10.6092/issn.2280-9481/v10-n19-2021
op_relation https://cinergie.unibo.it/article/view/12915/13005
https://cinergie.unibo.it/article/view/12915/13006
https://cinergie.unibo.it/article/view/12915
doi:10.6092/issn.2280-9481/12915
op_rights Copyright (c) 2021 Paolo Pinamonti
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
op_rightsnorm CC-BY
op_doi https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/12915
https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/v10-n19-2021
_version_ 1766287876579917824