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Originally posted by Mr Sleep
How much effect has other media had on Classical Music, for instance the music used in 2001 a space oddesy was largely ignored previous to the movies release, now it is on every compilation album and played quite regularly on Classic FM and is always high on their top 100. |
Hmmmm...if I understand you correctly, the actual influence works the other way around: classical music has begun over the last couple of decades to have a considerable use (once more) in films, and as background in commercials. There's an enormous gold mine out there of the stuff to anybody who truly needs music to suit a specific emotional purpose; few people are simply aware of the resource. I keep thinking back to a film about Pol Pot's horrifying brutal and dehumanizing Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, called the Killing Fields, that was very popular: it used Strauss' Four Last Songs to provide a philosophical message. Then, there was the use of the Ride of the Valkyries in Apocalypse Now, while Woody Allen re-used a film score composed by Prokofiev forty years before in his Love and Death.
I hope that answers your question. If I'm misunderstanding it, please try again, and I'll do my best to get it right this time.
