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unusual facts about incidental music



Charles Houdret

He made his first conducting appearance in Canada at the MF leading a performance of René Fauchois's play Beethoven which contained incidental music.

Dennis Berry

Although he died in 1994, his work continues to be used worldwide, frequently as incidental music in television, most recently in BBC's Little Britain and Dick and Dom in da Bungalow, MTV's The Osbournes and the Nickelodeon cartoons Rocko's Modern Life and SpongeBob SquarePants.

Jacob Niclas Ahlström

Ahlström composed two operas based on libretti by Frans Hedberg, incidental music (for plays such as Agne, Positivhalaren, Ringaren i Notre Dame, and Hinko och Urdur), a vocal symphony, chamber music, and lieder.

L'arlesiana

The opera is based on the play L'Arlésienne (1872) by Alphonse Daudet, which was itself inspired by a short story from his collection Letters From My Windmill (Lettres de mon moulin) and is best known for the incidental music composed by Georges Bizet.

Le retour de l'enfant prodigue

The story has also been adapted for the stage and performed in Paris, where incidental music for it was written by Henri Sauguet in 1933.

Maurice Jaubert

Maurice Jaubert (born Nice 3 January 1900 - wounded in combat at Azerailles near Baccarat, where he died 19 June 1940) was a French composer of incidental music for stage and film music, famous for his collaborations with the masters of poetic realism Jean Vigo, René Clair, Julien Duvivier and Marcel Carné.

Music for a While

Music for a While is a musical composition by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell, the second of four movements from his incidental music composed in 1692 (Z 583) to John Dryden's and Nathaniel Lee's play Oedipus.

Porky's Hare Hunt

The incidental music heard throughout the piece are scored arrangements of "Bei Mir Bistu Shein," a popular swing tune of the time which has since become a standard, and "Hooray for Hollywood," from the contemporary motion picture Hollywood Hotel and now a quintessential Hollywood theme, among others.

Rhythm Plate

They have written incidental music that has been featured on several UK and US television shows, most notably CSI: Miami.

Twisted Issues

Twisted Issues is a 1988 splatter film billed as a 'psycho-punk splatter-comedy,' It featured Gainesville, Florida punk bands such as Psychic Violents, Young Pioneers, Mutley Chix, Doldrums, Just Demi-gods, Cindy Brady's Lisp, Officer Friendly, and the Smegmas, as well as local speed metal band Hellwitch avante gard incidental music by The Bill Perry Orchestra.


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Alan Tew

He also composed all the music for the series, The Hanged Man, some of which has been used as incidental music for The Two Ronnies, The Sweeney, the 2009 blacksploitaion spoof Black Dynamite, and would eventually become the intro music for the American TV series, The People's Court.

Anna Bofill

Bofill has also designed sets for theater and composed music for theater works by Ricard Salvat and Mark Medoff, and other incidental music.

Cambridge Greek Play

Among famous names involved in those early days were Rupert Brooke as the Herald in Aeschylus' Eumenides (1906), Sir Hubert Parry as the composer of incidental music to Aristophanes' The Birds (1883) – the Bridal March is still used in weddings – and Ralph Vaughan Williams as composer of incidental music to The Wasps, also by Aristophanes (1909).

Critical reputation of Arthur Sullivan

His incidental music to The Tempest received an acclaimed premiere at the Crystal Palace on 5 April 1862.

Cry Little Sister

Celldweller released a "Klash-Up" in October 2012, featuring incidental music titled Hello Zepp from the first Saw movie.

Dario Martinelli

As a composer, Martinelli writes experimental music (with works commissioned by Sibelius Academy, and various festivals in Finland and Estonia, alone or together with Finnish composer Petri Kuljuntausta), incidental music (he wrote for documentaries, radio programs and theatre shows), and popular music (he is songwriter for the Italian singer Anna Maria Castelli).

Gabriel Cusson

His other unpublished works include several motets, the cantata À la gloire de Jeanne Mance (1942), and incidental music for Antigone and the biblical dramas Jonathas and Tobie.

Gary Windo

In addition to this he did incidental music for Saturday Night Live" and gave music lessons famous for running over time due to his helpful nature and unbounded enthusiasm.

Harry South

He later branched out into session work, writing themes and incidental music for television and music libraries, including the theme tune for the 1970s ITV police drama, The Sweeney.

Her First Roman

The rest of the crew had set design and costume by Michael Annals, lighting design Martin Aronstein, musical director and dance and incidental music Peter Howard, music orchestrated and vocal arrangements Don Walker, production manager Tom Porter, stage managers George Rondo and Ellen Wittman, and press by Max Eisen and Carl Samrock.

Jules Barbier

Gounod wrote incidental music to Barbier's play Jeanne d'Arc, and the libretto to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's opera The Maid of Orleans was partially based on it.

Ken Rattenbury

He then worked for EMI to produce full-length albums of incidental music to stories by Hans Christian Andersen and The Brothers Grimm.

La cheminée du roi René

The screenplay by Jean Anouilh and Jean Aurenche is set in the court of René I in the fifteenth century and includes three love stories with incidental music by the composers Milhaud, Honegger and Désormière.

LIVE 34

The entire play is presented in the style of a factual radio broadcast, and to that end the play is devoid of the Doctor Who theme music (although snatches of the McCoy era version of the tune can be heard in parts of the "tuning" sequences at the start of the episodes) as well as incidental music, or trailers for future Big Finish releases.

Lovers' Legends: The Gay Greek Myths

Lovers' Legends Unbound is a theatrical production directed by Agnes Lev, performed by Timothy Carter, with incidental music composed and performed by Steve Gorn.

Lucio Gregoretti

He is also the author of a vast production of incidental music for theatre plays, musical comedies, and film scores since 1983, including works for Henryk Baranowski, Marco Mattolini, Margarethe von Trotta, and Lina Wertmüller.

Meglos

In 2002, Paddy Kingsland and Peter Howell's incidental music was released on the compilation album Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 4: Meglos & Full Circle.

Orbecche

It was produced in Ferrara in 1541, with incidental music composed by Alfonso della Vivuola and sets by the painter Girolamo da Carpi.

Pan's Anniversary

More notably, an April 1905 production at Stratford-upon-Avon, part of a Shakespeare Birthday Celebration, featured incidental music composed by Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Para Sa Tao

Incidental music for "The Complete Para Sa Tao Video" ("Ethnic-HF1")
performed by Susie Ibarra, drums & kulintang ♦ Roberto Rodriguez, cajon ♦
Cynthia Alexander, agung ♦ Johnny Alegre, tambourine ♦ Malek Lopez, electronics

Pelléas and Mélisande

Jean Sibelius also wrote incidental music for it in 1905; the section, "At the castle gate," has found fame as the signature music of the BBC The Sky at Night programme.

Quiet City

Quiet City (music), a 1941 composition by Aaron Copland extracted from his incidental music written for the Shaw play

Ricky Hyslop

Hyslop also worked as a composer for the CBC, writing incidental music for such CBC TV drama series as The Serial, Opening of the West, Gold - the Fabulous Years, A Place for Everything, and A Gift to Last and contributing music to several TV specials.

Robert Waldman

Over the years he has composed, arranged, and orchestrated incidental music for the Broadway stagings of numerous dramatic plays, including The Rivals, Dinner at Eight, Ivanov, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, The School for Scandal, The Heiress, and Abe Lincoln in Illinois.

Sinfonía de Antígona

The Sinfonía de Antígona originated from the incidental music which Chávez composed for a production of Jean Cocteau's adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy Antigone, given by the group Teatro Orientación at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City in 1932.

Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber

The Weber themes are taken from incidental music Weber wrote for a play by Carlo Gozzi based on the same Turandot legend that later inspired Giacomo Puccini and others.

Terry Rusling

He also composed incidental music for the TV show Telescope's episode on Marshall McLuhan (1967).

The Doctor Who 25th Anniversary Album

Mainly consisting of selections of Keff McCulloch's incidental music, it also included versions of the Doctor Who theme by Delia Derbyshire, Peter Howell, Dominic Glynn and McCulloch.

The Stranger Left No Card

Incidental music was provided by Doreen Carwithen, though the soundtrack is most remembered for the incessant repetition of Hugo Alfvén's Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 (1903).

The Sword in the Stone

The BBC broadcast a six-part radio dramatisation in 1939, with incidental music by Benjamin Britten.

Thierry De Mey

After studying film at the IAD, he continued to studying music composition and contemporary dance after meeting Fernand Schirren, for whose works he has written original incidental music.

Tony Sokol

Sokol wrote incidental music for the films Woman, Man, Gun and Hide Me, both directed by Jenice Malecki; The Gauntlet and Quest, directed by David Burgos; Zaritsas: Russian Women in New York, directed by Elena Beloff.

Torchwood: Original Television Soundtrack

Torchwood: Original Television Soundtrack is a soundtrack album which was released on 22 September 2008, containing incidental music composed by Ben Foster and Murray Gold and used in the first and second series of the British science fiction television programme Torchwood.

Torchwood: Original Television Soundtrack - Children of Earth

Torchwood: Children of Earth: Original Television Soundtrack is a soundtrack album which was released on 7 July 2009, containing incidental music composed by Ben Foster used in the third series ("Children of Earth") of the British science fiction television programme Torchwood, which aired July 2009.

Trelawny of the 'Wells'

Fred Williams directed, E.G. Unitt designed the sets, Percy Anderson designed the costumes, and Frank Howson composed the incidental music.

Vic Elmes

Elmes wrote the guitar parts for the first-season theme of the classic science fiction series Space:1999 (along with bass player John McCoy and Liam Genocky from the rock band ZZebra) produced and directed by Gerry Anderson, in collaboration with composer Barry Gray who wrote the incidental music for the first season of the series.

Victorin de Joncières

He composed some incidental music for Hamlet (performed both in Paris and Nantes) but found little success with two operas produced at the Théâtre Lyrique: Sardanapale (based on Byron, with Christine Nilsson, 1867) and Les derniers jours de Pompéi (from a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1869).

We Will Never Die

He also wrote propaganda songs (some for broadcast in Germany); incidental music for Your Navy, a radio program written by Maxwell Anderson and jointly commissioned by CBS Radio and NBC Radio; music for Salute to France, a U.S. propaganda film directed by Jean Renoir; and four patriotic melodramas for Helen Hayes, recorded by RCA Victor under the title Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory.

Wilfred Josephs

In particular, Josephs is remembered for composing the music for the television series Enemy at the Door (drama) (1978), The Great War (1964), Talking to a Stranger (1966), I, Claudius (1976) and incidental music for The Prisoner (1967).