Re: Italian Dinner Gig (Ideas, Music, or Tabs?)
Originally Posted by
brunello97
What actually is a 'love theme'? I often see this noted on movie soundtracks, eg "Love Theme from A Nightmare on Elm Street" or whatever.
What about "Volare"? There is a crowd pleaser.....
It's kind of a show biz term, perhaps most commonly used in Hollywood, to designate the music being played in the movie while there is some kind of, um, wooing going on. For one reason or another, the producers think the audience remembers the visual aspects of the scene more than the audio or musical aspects, so for marketing or simply nomenclature, that's what they use. Sometimes this is the actual title and the commonly-used title appears on sheet music in parentheses, sometimess it's the other way around. But if there are no lyrics, as is the case with "The Godfather," that is the title. Capisce?
Your question made me think of "The Love Theme From Psycho," usually known as "Ree! Ree! Ree!"
BTW, "Volare" was a monster hit, worldwide, and according to Billboard the only time a foreign language song was the #1 song for the year in America. I do it in A for some reason, and my arrangement involves doing it four times, each time increasing the amount of third notes in the C section until it is all third notes. No idea whether people noticed this, but it was something I would do for my own fun.
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