... primitive type of musical accompaniment that laid the foundation for what was to later develop. As time passed the type of music found in films developed into a fine art, containing specific guidelines and techniques that most composers tend to follow. The average movie patron does not usually pay ... Symphonic, highly orchestrated film scores began to "take a seat closer to the front of the bus." Well-respected, highly talented composers began to score films, leaving behind the simple, under-developed music which had once been considered adequate to accompany a film. Writing film scores...

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... of non-developmental material ! being placed in developmental moulds. The Symphonies of Wind Instruments, an apotheosis of the wartime "Russian- style, was thus followed by the short number-opera Mavra, the Octet for wind, and three works he wrote to help him earn his living as a pianist: the ... suitable collaborator in Balanchine, with whom he had worked since Apollon, and for whom in America he composed Orpheus and Agon. Meanwhile music intended for films went into orchest! ral pieces, including the Symphony in Three Movements (1945). The later 1940s were devoted to The Rake's Progres...

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