Música y CInametografía, Clase Junio 14

Minutes	Technique	Scene description	Music
00:00		Opening credits	Mozart, Gloria, adaptation of classical music
		Africans brought to America	“Primitive, barbarian” theme
		Senator Austin Stoneman	Stoneman’s leitmotif
		Elsie	Elsie’s leitmotif
14:00		Slaves dancing	‘Zip Coon” minstrel tune, pre-existent popular melody
34:00	Crosscutting	Rescue scene: Black Union soldiers attack Piedmont while Confederate soldiers approach to the rescue	Barbarian theme, Weber’s Der Freischütz (Opera), “Maryland My Maryland”
46:15	Panoramic battle scene	Climatic scene of the civil war, battler of Petersburg	Original battle music with fragments of “Dixie” and “The Bonnie Blue Flag”
1:18	Historical accuracy and realism	Assassination of Abraham Lincoln	Bellini’s, Overture to Norma (pre-existent popular melody)
2:12	Crosscutting	Black renegade Gus tries to take advantage of Flora, her brother Phil is coming to the rescue