{"id":4849,"date":"2023-09-27T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/?p=4849"},"modified":"2023-09-27T09:06:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T13:06:27","slug":"arachnophonia-casablanca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/2023\/09\/arachnophonia-casablanca\/","title":{"rendered":"Arachnophonia: Casablanca"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> Arachnophonia<\/a> (\u201cArachno\u201d = spider \/ \u201c-phonia\u201d = sound) is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library<\/a>\u2018s collection.<\/p>\n

All links included in these posts will take you to either the library catalog record for the item in question<\/a> or to additional relevant<\/a> information from<\/a> around the web<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s installment of Arachnophonia<\/a> is by student manager Eliana (class of 2024) and features insert title info here<\/a>. Thanks, Eliana!<\/em><\/p>\n

Casablanca<\/em>: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Casablanca<\/a><\/p>\n

Among the shelves of CD\u2019s in Parson\u2019s music library sits the soundtrack of Casablanca<\/em><\/a>, one of the most famous movies of all time with a score that certainly holds its own. The score, composed by revolutionary Austrian composer Max Steiner, will transport you to the 1940s and fill you with the triumphant energy of World War II cinema. Steiner not only utilizes leitmotifs<\/a> in his scoring, but his songs provide formal and rhythmic continuity for the film as a whole, making his composition a true masterpiece. <\/p>\n

The beating heart of the film is the song \u201cAs Time Goes By<\/a>,\u201d originally written by Herman Hupfeld<\/a> in 1931. It is rumored that Steiner disliked this song and wanted to scrap it altogether, but he was forced to use it because the female lead (Ingrid Bergman<\/a>) cut her hair for a different production and wouldn\u2019t be able to reshoot any scenes with a new theme song. Notwithstanding Steiner\u2019s disdain, the song is a true masterpiece with the context of the film. “As Time Goes By<\/a>” represents not only the love that Rick<\/a> and Ilsa<\/a> have for each other, but also the past that they shared. When the song is not present in scenes between the two of them, the strain on their relationship becomes all the more apparent. Conversely, the song\u2019s presence denotes a sense of calm between the two. Steiner weaves the song\u2019s melody throughout the film to somehow bridge gaps between scenes, allude to strife, and foster love all at once. It is his compositional ingenuity that sets this film apart from many others. <\/p>\n

Other notable songs present in the film are “La Marseillaise<\/a>,” “It Had to Be You<\/a>,” and “Die Wacht am Rhein<\/a>.” You can listen to these, as well as the rest of the score, from the Casablanca<\/em> CD<\/a> located in the Parsons Music Library<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note: Arachnophonia (\u201cArachno\u201d = spider \/ \u201c-phonia\u201d = sound) is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library\u2018s collection. All links included in these … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15223],"tags":[61217,230860,230875,230871,191391,14341,76061,206967,230874,230877,230876,230872,61230,76062,120677,53121,230873],"class_list":["post-4849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collection","tag-arachnophonia","tag-arachnophonia-23-24","tag-as-time-goes-by","tag-casablanca","tag-eliana","tag-film","tag-film-scores","tag-film-soundtracks","tag-herman-hupfeld","tag-humphrey-bogart","tag-ingrid-bergman","tag-max-steiner","tag-motion-picture-music","tag-movie-soundtrack","tag-movies","tag-soundtrack","tag-warner-brothers-studio-orchestra"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgMV3E-1gd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4854,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions\/4854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}