/lit/ - Literature

>>20168623
Kubrick. The fact that none of you said him yet means you are all plebs

>>16868882

I just used my personal color-preferences to connote similar things across both graphics. In both cases, Penderecki and Ligeti are the real musical stars of both pictures, and their music in-context suggest themes of foreboding, danger, horror, hence my choice of orange. The grey bits denote minor and incidental music which is nevertheless manifest in both films. Cooler colors denote more placid music, but carrying their own themes within the picture. And for major themes like the aerial context of the Shining's main title theme and the Blue Danube, a light blue is self-explanatory.

At some point in the future I will produce a companion image for Clockwork Orange though I haven't got round to it yet. I may even example non-pleb Kubrick movies along similar lines someday. I don't have a copy but the recent book "Listening to Stanley Kubrick" is the go-to for this autism.

>>16240186

No, I've only done these two thus far. My initial motivation was to track down the exact versions of various classical/avant-garde pieces used, which are sometimes quite obscure. Kubrick had a big hard-on for the conductor Herbert von Karajan, and this carries through his decade bracketed by these two popular films. In Clockwork Orange (my next obvious place to go), you can see an image of a microcassette with the Deutsche Grammophon logo, a classical imprint along the same lines. There, Kubrick explicitly inserted the type of music he liked to employ.

If you're interested in this, there's a recent book called "Listening to Stanley Kubrick" which does the same thing. I don't have it but per google books it appears to have some very interesting charts on Penderecki in the Shining. It autistically rattles of the music cues, but it also details thematic significance, layers of information I've tried to show well in these few graphs.

In lieu of another music chart, here's a general thematic break-down of the black "scene" cards which pop up throughout the Shining, a rhythmic device all its own. There is also an excellent website about the Shining which (correctly) takes these scene-breaks as its basic structural unit: shiningtheshining.com The running commentary is psychoanalytic and frankly makes me queasy in parts (anti-conservative), but it's a straightforward read on the film's themes with the given evidence.