General Aspects of Film Music in the Creation of Tiberiu Olah
General Aspects of Film Music in the Creation of Tiberiu Olah

Summary/Abstract: Tiberiu Olah is one of the best Romanian film music composers of the second half of the 20th century. His feature filmography includes 34 productions from 1958 to 1987. In all of these, he exploits the sounds of the small or large symphony orchestra depending on the specifics of the script and the story. The fiction films for which he composed the soundtrack include a wide range of genres such as drama, history, love, adventure, current affairs, war. Until the 70th, the style he approached in his films is a clean, good one, not abusing too much the technique of leitmotif and sound description. One technique he used from the beginning was emphasizeing suspense, tension through various signals, chords, short melodic or harmonic motifs in the bass or treble register. There are films with a variety of music scenes and others in which there are only a few short interventions, but all of them placed in essential moments of the action.

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