FW: [mb-style] What defines a Soundtrack?

[Beth]

I appreciate your thoughts, and I know I opened that sort of by stating what
the "general rules" are and how they are generally categorized. I will keep
this for the next phase be assured. Right now though, I am just seeking a
common ground on what different types of soundtracks there are, and how
generally people would think they would be categorized. ;) Sorry, I don't
want this to get too advanced due to what happened last time. Perhaps it is
time to go to the next phase, but I figured I would be doing a definitions
of soundtrack wiki first. Just so it's all well ordered and everyone can
look at it and say yeah, change or change it themselves so the community is
happy.

Does anyone else have any more "types" of soundtracks? I know they can be
added later. Just figured I'd get as many outlooks as I could before drawing
up the wiki for it.

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Frederic Da Vitoria
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Subject: Re: FW: [mb-style] What defines a Soundtrack?

Though I am a classical lover and I like it that MB uses the composer
for artist in classical, I am not so sure we should make a difference
between clasical soundtracks and other soundtracks. I'd prefer a
general rule. I am not sure "classical" users will check the
soundtracks to see if some of them fall into the category classical...

2006/7/25, Beth <imbethers at aim.com>:
> This got sent just to me on accident, Lauri asked if I would forward it to
> the list. Therefore doing so. :D
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lauri Watts [mailto:krazykiwi at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 9:15 AM
> To: Beth
> Subject: Re: [mb-style] What defines a Soundtrack?
>
> Two comments:
>
> I'm not clear on the distinction between Film scores and classical
> scores.  Are not film scores are traditionally attributed to the
> composer anyway?
>
> The other is an addition, which I am having trouble coming up with a
> useful name for:
>
> The albums that are usually called in Japanese "Image Albums" and in
> Hollywood "Music inspired by...".  This is pretty common, they can be
> both instrumental (when inspired from the score) and/or pop/rock in
> nature, and often contain entirely new material that was not featured
> in the movie/game/tv show at all.
>
> I think they should be treated as if they were real soundtracks,
> because they are almost inextricably bound to the movie (or game, or
> whatever) that inspired them.
>
> I can think of several examples for reference, they're all quite twisted:
> * I am Sam has an "music inspired by and from" album that only has a
> few tracks that were heard in the soundtrack (and even then, mostly
> very tiny snippets of).
> * Il Postino has a very famous soundtrack album that is in fact not
> the oscar winning score to the movie, although it does contain most of
> that too, and contains a whole bunch hollywood illuminati reciting
> poetry in between the bits it does contain.
> * My Neighbour Totoro, to head over to Japan, like many movies there
> has an Image album that contains nothing of the movie soundtrack, but
> would be very familiar to anyone who's ever heard it, since it's
> musically very closely related.  And finally
> * Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which doubles as a tribute
> album to Johnny Mercer (I recall it says so on the cover in fact),
> being a bunch of his tracks rearranged and covered by current artists,
> and only a few were used in the movie.
>
> I would treat them as Pop/Rock, Score, Score and Pop/Rock
> respectively, I think they should be covered as either another rule or
> noted as typical of the kind of thing that might be considered only
> borderline covered by a soundtrack guideline, unless it's spelled out
> in detail.
>
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