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Correct me where wrong, but I recollect in the long thread for La La Land Record's "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" that some tracks were recorded digitally before the idea was dropped to do the whole score digitially, so ST:TMP would earn the title of first digitally recorded score. "The Black Hole" only wins for the whole score being recorded that way.
Unless somebody can name another score before ST:TMP where parts thereof were recorded digitally.
How about another category: first entirely original score composed for an episode of a television series. That would probably throw even Jon Burlingame for a loop.
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Interesting topic! Wish I read this a week ago. Gave a lecture on filmmusic last sunday and made my own timeline. It has many of the same moments, but I did mis a few interesting ones.
Here are some sugestions for questions/moments that could be added:
First Oscar for best score? 1934 , One Night Of Love
First Oscar for best song? 1934, The Gay Divorce - song: The Continental
First Oscar for electronic score? 1978, Midnight Express, Giorgio Moroder (not sure)
First use of computer/digital samples? I think early '90's?
First midi mock-up?
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Any updates??
Hi!
anybody interested in making a complete timeline for important historic moments in filmmusic?
I don't mean like: John Williams first score for... etc.
I mean: first score with jazz influences, or first complete electronic score, first popmusic used in, start Silver Age...etc.
Please update/complete/change THIS LIST (!) if it is wrong... (copy paste it en make your changes!)
I will copy and paste it here again. So the top list will be the latest version!
Let's try to make the best possible:
1908 - L'assassinat du duc de guise (The Assassination of the Duke of Guise) - Saint-Saëns - fist complete original score for a movie
1909 - Max Winkler's publicated "Suggestions for Music" with a filmmusic-cue-sheet for silent films (but disproved by Rick Altman in his book, "Silent Film Sound" (2007))
1911 - Edison was publishing cue sheets in "The Edison Kinetogram," and Kalem was publishing full, all-original scores composed by Walter C. Simon for their films.
1911 - Arrah-Na-Pough - Walter Cleveland Simon - first original score for an American film
1915 - The Birth of a Nation - Joseph Carl Breil - first mentioning name of composer on filmtitels/crew
1921 - Dream Street - experiment with sound and film
1926 - Don Juan - first recorded score and sound effects to play synchronized with a film
1927 - The Jazz Singer - first real sound film including vocals and a few lines of spoken dialog
1931 - Odna ("Alone") - Dmitri Shostakovich -first use of a theremin in a film score
1933 - King Kong - Max Steiner - start Golden Age
1934 - One Night of Love - Receives first Academy Award for Best Score
1934 - The Gay Divorce - song: The Continental - Receives first Academy Award for Best Song
1935 - Les Souliers - Germaine Tailleferre - the first female film composer ????
1936 -Things to come - Arthur Bliss - first release of a British film score
1937 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarves - 78rpm first original songs compilation released separately from the film
1950 - For Whom The Bell Tolls / Golden Earrings - first release of orchestral score on 12"
1951- A Streetcar Named Desire - Alexander North -first Jazz score
1952- Limelight - Charles Chaplin - first film scored by its star and director
1955- Cobweb - Leonard Rosenman - first atonale (avant-garde) music
1955- Blackboard Jungle -first film to use rock songs as a film score
1956- Street Of Shame - Toshiro Mayuzumi -all-electronic score (Which is first?)
1956- Forbidden Planet - Louis and Bebe Barron - first complete electronic score (Which is first?)
1959 - Sleeping Beauty - first stereo soundtrack album
1960- Beat Girl - John Barry - first UK release of a film score
1965- Doctor Zhivago - Maurice Jarre - the first use of a Moog synthesizer (Herb Deutsch's prototype?) (it was only used to reinforce other instruments and not used on its own)
1967- The Trip - Electric Flag - Paul Beaver programmed and played the Moog in that score - the first score in which the Moog can actually be heard
1967- Wait Until Dark - Henry Mancini - first use of quarter tones in score
1969- Easy Rider - The first film to utilize a socalled "compilation score" of previously existing rock songs.
1970- Didn't You Hear - Mort Garson - first entirely scored via Moog Synthesize filmscore
1975- Operation Daybreak - David Hentschel - first used of the ARP 2500 alongside an ARP 2600 and orchestra.
1977- Star Wars - John Williams - revival of the Hollywood Style
1978- Midnight Express - Giorgio Moroder -Receives first Academy Award for Best Score completely electronically ????
1979- Star Trek: The Motion Picture - first digitally recorded parts of the score
1979- The Black Hole - John Barry - First digitally whole recorded score
1992- Memoirs Of An Invisible Man - Shirley Walker is the first female who did a complete filmscore and earned a solo score credit on a major Hollywood motion picture
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