Analyzing Music in Film

    Analyzing the music from the first and second ("Sunshine Through the Rain" and "The Peach Orchard") of eight mythic vignettes in Akira Kurosawa's Dreams. This will be shown in class on Wednesday, October 30th. If you cannot be in class you must find it on your own. "Akira Kurosawa was inspired by the beloved directors own nighttime visions, along with stories from Japanese folklore. In a visually sumptuous journey through the masters imagination, tales of childlike wonder give way to apocalyptic apparitions = Dreams." How does he use: Sound-Image Counterpoint, Silence, Nature Sounds, Musical Score? Pacing and Timbre?