The scent of a woman (1992)

The film “The scent of a woman” has a piece of good interlude piece in the middle of the movie, the hero ask a beautiful lady to dance tango with him. While the band playing the tango music “Por una cabeza”, the audience really get deep impression by the dancing period, either the tango music and also the humorous personality and versatility of hero. After finishing the film, when people hear the familiar song will always think over the dancing fragment.  

Since the music comes out, not only many musicians make a series of music video and do live concert,but also a large number of user upload their video performance to YouTube,  which are becoming more and more popular. 

This is Nicola Benedetti's official music video for tango.


This is also Nicola Benedetti's live concert in The Greene Place for Por Una Cabeza.



This is the piano solo for Por Una Cabeza which composed by Carlos Gardel in 1935, and Matthias Dobler played this song in 2012.




This piece of video is a combination of Carlos Gardel and Itzhak Perlman's version which is blended with Mark Shian's own improvisations. Mark Shian said,  the first part of the song is something he wrote as an intro and he call it 'March of the Angels', and the second half of the song then moves into his rendition of Por Una Cabeza as a piano solo.




Lastly, it's the Tango dance from Jessica Biel and Colin Firth which shows in the movie "Easy Virtue" . However, it matches the tango song very well.

Stage performance from the music of film （Introduction ）

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This blog is going to talk about the film music mainly. I will not only talk about the film music in the movie, but also talking about the influence of the film music to stage performance. In the post, we will see different area has different film style and film music style, there will also include some example of Asia movie, like Hong Kong movie, Tai Wan movie and Korean movie.  Moreover, not only the celebrity like pianist and violinist play that music in their concert, also the people who love to practice those music for fun, they can do performance in stage or just in front of other friends and influence them a lot. We also provide the music score together with the film music and stage performance as well.

A song or a piece of music is a significant part of movie. It is the key to help explain the emotion of film. For a video production, the combination of vision and audio can be better to deliver the meaning.

When a film music become famous, the movie it came from can become famous as well, they are inseparable. Even after many years, when people talk about a film, the enduring melody is accompanied by that memory. Sometimes, a good theme song is even better than the movie itself.

We can imagine the influence of film music inside and out, and wonder when people watching a movie what kind of psychological or visual impact it will bring to the audience after a movie soundtrack is released. On viewing the movie, people might have deep impressions of the soundtrack, always echoing in their mind, such as the symphony in “Pirates of the Caribbean” or “Titanic”. Such people will inevitably hum the melody, or imitate or create through a variety of instruments and musical performances. Violinist and pianist are corporate together to recreate the new song based on the original soundtrack, their recomposed production are really popular that lots of audience are followed. Such a phenomenon brings a new wave of interest after the movie, with everyone eager to learn and play a movie’s music, which can endure for many, many years.

Film music brings immense benefits to both composers and musicians. Film music spreads more widely and becomes more famous with writers, and singers and performers sometimes becoming household names. Singers have greater visibility and win more fans with composers having the chance to do more music soundtracks for other movies. Thus, movies, composers and singers will be an important part of film and music history.

P.S.

The inspiration that makes me to create this film music blog is from one of my Korean friend who can play those film music by piano. After listening to her playing those famous recomposed piano songs, i feel heart shaking and deeply touched. I really wish to play those piano songs as well, so i create this blog based on my favorite and share with the people who love these film and music.