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The temp track included Holst and Korngold.
Here the director curates a meta-score from many sources — a temp track at an exalted level.
Composers are often asked to imitate the temp track, in the hope of maintaining the musical DNA.
(Temp tracks, as I observed in my 2010 profile of Michael Giacchino, have been the curse of Hollywood music for decades, reducing composers to pasticheurs).
Every other scene is just as bad, as are the cheapo music cues that sound like temp tracks from a freeware program that somebody forgot to replace.
The "shark threat" music in Jaws, for instance, was inspired by Spielberg's use of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in his temp track.
Episodes of "Lost" do have temp tracks attached when they arrive in Giacchino's studio, but the music comes from earlier episodes; in any case, he mutes the track when viewing the footage.
The scourge of their existence is the "temp track" — the temporary soundtrack of preëxisting musical selections that is used to assemble a rough cut, and that the composer is then encouraged to mimic.
Bource, in an interview with Film Score Monthly, tells a sad, all-too-familiar story: he wrote his own cue for the dénouement, but the director, who had been using the "Scène d'amour" on his "temp track" (temporary soundtrack), decided to retain the Herrmann in his final cut.
Temp tracks help to explain why Hollywood scores are too often a lazy Susan of fixed formulas: in fantasy movies, metallic percussion clanging over horns and male choruses in the minor mode; in romantic comedies, a one-handed piano noodling behind a scrim of strings; in period pictures, neo-Baroque arpeggiation in the manner of Philip Glass.
He said, 'Can't they play any louder?' And I said, 'Well, they're already playing fortissimo.' And he said, 'Tell them to play fivetissimo.' " Several composers at Sundance mentioned the frustrating phenomenon of the "temp track," a temporary soundtrack that directors and editors create while they are preparing a rough cut of their film.
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