And they call it “movie sound track”
What would a movie sound like these days, if there’s no sound track in it? What if there’s no music at all? Just imagine the Harry Potter series, or The Lord of The Ring, or perhaps Star Wars movies without music. Kind of boring, that’s for sure – similar as saying “life without music”.
And yes, the use of music in a motion picture has probably been almost as long as the movie’s history itself, whether it’s only as a score (in form of any music sound), or as some specific written music/songs (sound tracks).
But as some notes from Wikipedia say so, although there were some first recorded music specifically made for a motion picture in 1908, the first known soundtrack album released along with a movie was in 1946. And it has become such a vital element of almost any movie since then, proven by the fact that there are already a couple of music-related categories in the Academy Awards for years now.
Another fact: a soundtrack album now can even get as popular as the movie itself, and producing big money as well. That’s why these days on the internet, we can find heaps of websites that sell or make lists of movie soundtracks, such as Soundtrack Collector, Movie Music, or Film Tracks.
It’s also an easy thing to find some appropriate sources about this subject – so there’s nothing more to tell here actually. Some of these online resources – with data, articles, technical matters, history and so on – are provided by a few particular organisations such as the Film Music Society or Film Sound.
