![]() ![]() This music was used to intensify gun battles and horse chases and to help paint the image of the scenery in 360 degrees around the audience. It had to be big to fill all the empty space the movies were showing, so the composers wrote for full orchestras. The music was broad, long, drawn-out like the scenery. They used the same ideas as the Classical Scoring Technique and similar orchestral instruments but added the "Western" sound with a twangy guitar and/or a Spanish trumpet. The days of spaghetti Westerns (popular in the '50s and '60s) brought back symphonic scoring, to an extent. We see much less (if any) racial coding in our movies today, obviously, as racism becomes less rampant. ![]() Unfortunately and awkwardly enough, jazz was considered "African American music" and had to be "sanitized" before it was put into white movies (see A Jazzy Aside to the right). ![]()
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