Superman The Magnetic Telescope - new score by Kristen Puttagio

Original new score to Superman - The Magnetic Telescope - by Kristen Puttagio.

This project is an orchestral film score composed to the short animation film, Superman: The Magnetic Telescope (1942). The original audio, including the dialogue and Foley sounds, are stripped so that the composition solely supports and pushes the story forward. The film's structure provided an ideal opportunity to compose music for contrasting scenes, transitional phrases and character development.

The different characters each have their own theme and are developed using Wagner's principle of the leitmotif. Initially, there is a heroic theme for Superman, with a more subtle version reserved for Clark Kent. Then there is the "villain" character, in this case a professor. Music is scored to support his actions, as well as those of the cops and the comets themselves (which come crashing to Earth). And finally there is Lois Lane, the romantic interest of Clark Kent/Superman, who has her own theme. This theme is used as well when the two of them are united. As the story develops and different characters interact, the themes intertwine musically.

The influences to the musical style are drawn from modern day film composer, John Williams, as well as from prominent composers of the Golden Age of Hollywood such as Max Steiner and Erich Wolfgang Korngold. COPYRIGHT 2011

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Music

Tags:

• Superman
• Superman music
• The Magnetic Telescope
• cartoon music
• original score
• John Williams
• theme
• soundtrack