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Message: [QUOTE="Sean Regan, post: 181389, member: 5841"] Max Steiner was a prolific writer of scores for dozens of classic films, including many of Humphrey Bogart's. Back in the day, apart from rousing themes in big movies there was also "incidental music," because it was used sparingly and either ceased or became muted when some essential dialogue needed to be hear by the audience, so they knew what was going on. He was a master of creating the right ambiance. Here's the "love theme" from one of my favourite film noir classics. This theme was heard whenever Bogart and Bacall were having a scene together once the "attraction" had been introduced. [MEDIA=youtube]8tykVpx-820[/MEDIA] These days we don't get "incidental music" in films and TV dramas, we hadly even get "background music." What we get a lot of is, "foreground music" that can completely mask the dialogue. It's often used to try to get some "drama," into a bit of lacklustre scripting and acting. [/QUOTE]