{"id":3130,"date":"2009-03-21T10:15:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T02:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/03\/21\/music-in-movies\/"},"modified":"2018-03-14T13:16:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T05:16:24","slug":"music-in-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/03\/21\/music-in-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Music in Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One way I get introduced to classics I haven\u2019t heard before is, surprisingly, through <em>science<\/em>-fiction movies. Specifically, there has been over the years a bit of use of the classics in the Star Trek movies and TV series. And whenever I hear a piece of music from a Star Trek episode or movie, I\u2019d look it up and go for it.<\/p>\n<p>Star Trek Voyager was especially memorable as there were several pieces I was introduced to. For example, Mahler\u2019s Symphonies through one episode in Star Trek Voyager, where one powerful alien race liked playing Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 1 as background music while they subjected the space vessel to a search for contraband. The ever-singing hologram Doctor had several scenes throughout the seven year series where he\u2019d break out in opera. That\u2019s how I got acquainted to Verdi\u2019s <em>Rigoletto<\/em> and especially the tenor aria \u201cQuesta O Quella\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also chamber music. In the movies with Picard\u2019s Enterprise, several scenes involved string quartets. I\u2019ve never quite had an interest in string quartet music before, but after watching a scene in Star Trek: Insurrection where the ship\u2019s musicians play a segment of Haydn\u2019s String Quartet in D, Op. 64 No. 5, I\u2019m in love! Shopped for it right away on eMusic, and made the purchase.<\/p>\n<p>More information on String Quartet music in the Star Trek movies and productions <a href=\"http:\/\/memory-alpha.org\/en\/wiki\/String_quartet\">here<\/a>. I\u2019ll do a post on soundtrack and film music soon too.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One way I get introduced to classics I haven\u2019t heard before is, surprisingly, through science-fiction movies. Specifically, there has been over the years a bit of use of the classics in the Star Trek movies and TV series. And whenever<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/03\/21\/music-in-movies\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Music in Movies<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-music","tag-star-trek","wpcat-10-id","wpcat-11-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}