Incidental music is music in a play, television program, radio program, video game, film or some other form not primarily musical. The term is less frequently applied to film music, with such music being referred to instead as the "film score" or "soundtrack".

Incidental music is often "background" music, and adds atmosphere to the action. It may take the form of something as simple as a low, ominous tone suggesting an impending startling event or to enhance the depiction of a story-advancing sequence. It may also include pieces such as overtures, music played during scene changes, or at the end of an act, immediately preceding an interlude, as was customary with several nineteenth-century plays. It may also be required in plays that have musicians performing on-stage.

The use of incidental music dates back at least as far as Greek drama. A number of classical composers have written incidental music for various plays, with the more famous examples including Ludwig van Beethoven's Egmont music, Franz Schubert's Rosamunde music, Felix Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream music, Georges Bizet's L'Arlésienne music, and Edvard Grieg's music for Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt. Parts of all of these are often performed in concerts outside the context of the play. Vocal incidental music, which is included in the classical scores mentioned above, should never be confused with the score of a Broadway or film musical, in which the songs often reveal character and further the storyline. Since the score of a Broadway or film musical is what actually makes the work a musical, it is far more essential to the work than mere incidental music, which nearly always amounts to little more than a background score; indeed, many plays have no incidental music whatsoever.

Some early examples of what were later called incidental music are also described as semi-operas, quasi-operas, masques, vaudevilles and melodramas.

The genre of incidental music does not extend to pieces designed for concert performance, such as overtures named after a play, for example, Beethoven's Coriolan Overture (written for Heinrich Joseph von Collin's tragedy), or Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet fantasy-overture.

Modern composers of incidental music include John White and Lorenzo Ferrero.

Types[link]

Overture[link]

An overture is incidental music that is played usually at the beginning of a film, play, opera, etc., before the action begins. It may be a complete work of music in itself or just a simple tune. In some cases it incorporates musical themes that are later repeated in other incidental music used during the performance.

Theme song[link]

A theme song is a work that represents the performance and is often played at the beginning or end of the performance. Elements of the theme may be incorporated into other incidental music used during the performance. In films, theme songs are often played during credit rolls. A love theme is a special theme song (often in various modified forms) that accompanies romantic scenes involving the protagonists of a performance.

Theme songs are among the most works of incidental music that are most commonly released independently of the performance for which they were written, and occasionally become major successes in their own right.

Underscore[link]

An underscore is soft, unobtrusive background music that accompanies the action in a performance. It is usually designed so that spectators are only indirectly aware of its presence. It may help to set or indicate the mood of a scene.

Stinger[link]

A stinger is a very brief instant of music that accompanies a scene transition in a performance. Often the stinger marks the passage of time or a change in location. Stingers were used frequently in the American television series "Friends" (as one example) to mark scene transitions involving the passage of time or a change of location. Similar techniques are commonly used in many American sitcoms.

Loop[link]

Short sequences of recorded music called loops are sometimes designed so that they can be repeated indefinitely and seamlessly as required to accompany visuals. These are often used as background music in documentary and trade films.

See also[link]

• Plays with incidental music

External links[link]

• The Foresters Web Opera – Score by Sir Arthur Sullivan for a play by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, with additional music arranged by persons unknown. Available online in an extremely complete state, down to the shortest trumpet fanfare, and thus an extremely useful example of Victorian incidental music.

Edvard Grieg (1876)

Edvard Grieg (1891)
portrait by Eilif Peterssen

Edvard Grieg and Nina Hagerup. (1899)

Edvard Hagerup Grieg /ˈɛdʋɑɖ ˈhɑːgəɾʉːp gɾiːg/ (15 June 1843 – 4 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt (which includes Morning Mood and In the Hall of the Mountain King), and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.^[1]

Biography[link]

Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in Bergen, Norway on 15 June 1843. His parents were Alexander Grieg (1806–1875), a merchant and vice consul in Bergen, and Gesine Judithe Hagerup (1814–1875), a music teacher and daughter of Edvard Hagerup.^[2][3] The family name, originally spelled Greig, has Scottish origins. After the Battle of Culloden in 1746, Grieg's great-grandfather traveled widely, settling in Norway about 1770, and establishing business interests in Bergen.

Edvard Grieg was raised in a musical area. His mother was his first piano teacher and taught him to play at the age of 6. Grieg studied in several schools,^{[clarification needed]} including Tank's School.^[4] He often brought in samples of his music to class.^{[citation needed]}

In the summer of 1858, Grieg met the eminent Norwegian violinist Ole Bull,^[5] who was a family friend; Bull's brother was married to Grieg's aunt.^[6] Bull recognized the 15-year-old boy's talent and persuaded his parents to send him to the Leipzig Conservatory,^[5] then directed by Ignaz Moscheles.^{[citation needed]}

Grieg enrolled in the conservatory, concentrating on the piano, and enjoyed the many concerts and recitals given in Leipzig. He disliked the discipline of the conservatory course of study, but he achieved very good grades in most areas. An exception was the organ, which was mandatory for piano students. In the spring of 1860, he survived a life-threatening lung disease. The following year he made his debut as a concert pianist, in Karlshamn, Sweden. In 1862, he finished his studies in Leipzig and held his first concert in his home town, where his programme included Beethoven's Pathétique sonata. (Grieg's own recording of his Piano Sonata, made late in his life, confirms that he was an excellent pianist).

In 1863, Grieg went to Copenhagen, Denmark, and stayed there for three years. He met the Danish composers J. P. E. Hartmann and Niels Gade. He also met his fellow Norwegian composer Rikard Nordraak (composer of the Norwegian national anthem), who became a good friend and source of great inspiration. Nordraak died in 1866, and Grieg composed a funeral march in his honor.

On 11 June 1867, Grieg married his first cousin, Nina Hagerup. The next year, their only child, Alexandra, was born. She died in 1869 from meningitis. In the summer of 1868, Grieg wrote his Piano Concerto in A minor while on holiday in Denmark. Edmund Neupert gave the concerto its premiere performance on 3 April 1869 in the Casino Theater in Copenhagen. Grieg himself was unable to be there due to conducting commitments in Christiania (as Oslo was then named). ^[7]

In 1868, Franz Liszt, who had not yet met Grieg, wrote a testimonial for him to the Norwegian Ministry of Education, which led to Grieg's obtaining a travel grant. The two men met in Rome in 1870. On Grieg's first visit, they went over Grieg's Violin Sonata No. 1, which pleased Liszt greatly. On his second visit, in April, Grieg brought with him the manuscript of his Piano Concerto, which Liszt proceeded to sightread (including the orchestral arrangement). Liszt's rendition greatly impressed his audience, although Grieg gently pointed out to him that he played the first movement too quickly. Liszt also gave Grieg some advice on orchestration, (for example, to give the melody of the second theme in the first movement to a solo trumpet).

In 1874–76, Grieg composed incidental music for the premiere of Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt, at the request of the author. Many of the pieces from this work became very popular in the orchestral suites or piano and piano-duet arrangements.

Grieg had close ties with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (Harmonien), and later became Music Director of the orchestra from 1880–1882. In 1888, Grieg met Tchaikovsky in Leipzig. Grieg was struck by the sadness in Tchaikovsky.^[8] Tchaikovsky thought very highly of Grieg's music, praising its beauty, originality and warmth.^[9]

Later years[link]

Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen

Grieg's later life brought him fame. The Norwegian government awarded him a pension. In the spring 1903, Grieg made nine 78-rpm gramophone recordings of his piano music in Paris; all of these historic discs have been reissued on both LPs and CDs and, despite limited fidelity, show his artistry as a pianist. Grieg also made live-recording player piano music rolls for the Welte-Mignon reproducing system, all of which survive today and can be heard.

In 1906, he met the composer and pianist Percy Grainger in London. Grainger was a great admirer of Grieg's music and a strong empathy was quickly established. In a 1907 interview, Grieg stated: “I have written Norwegian Peasant Dances that no one in my country can play, and here comes this Australian who plays them as they ought to be played! He is a genius that we Scandinavians cannot do other than love.”^[10]

Edvard Grieg died in the autumn of 1907, aged 64, after a long period of illness. His final words were "Well, if it must be so." The funeral drew between 30,000 and 40,000 people out on the streets of his home town to honor him. Following his wish, his own Funeral March in Memory of Rikard Nordraak was played in an orchestration by his friend Johan Halvorsen, who had married Grieg's niece. In addition, the Funeral March movement from Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 was played. His and his wife's ashes are entombed in a mountain crypt near his house, Troldhaugen.

Music[link]

Grieg is renowned as a nationalist composer, drawing inspiration from Norwegian folk music. Early works include a symphony (which he later suppressed) and a piano sonata. He also wrote three sonatas for violin and piano and a cello sonata.^[2] His many short pieces for piano – often based on Norwegian folk tunes and dances – led some to call him the "Chopin of the North".^{[who?][citation needed]}

Concerto in A minor: 1. Allegro molto moderato Performed by the University of Washington Symphony, conducted by Peter Erős (Neal O'Doan, piano) Concerto in A minor: 1. Allegro molto moderato Performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra (courtesy of Musopen) Concerto in A minor: 2. Adagio Performed by the University of Washington Symphony, conducted by Peter Erős (Neal O'Doan, piano) Concerto in A minor: 2. Adagio Performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra (courtesy of Musopen) Concerto in A minor: 3. Allegro moderato molto e marcato Performed by the University of Washington Symphony, conducted by Peter Erős (Neal O'Doan, piano) Concerto in A minor: 3. Allegro moderato molto e marcato Performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra (courtesy of Musopen) Notturno, Op. 54, No. 4 Performed live by Mark Gasser Grieg plays his butterfly. Recorded 1906 Grieg plays his Wedding day. Recorded 1903

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The Piano Concerto is his most popular work. Its champions have included the pianist and composer Percy Grainger, a personal friend of Grieg who played the concerto frequently during his long career. An arrangement of part of the work made an iconic television comedy appearance in the Christmas 1971 Morecambe and Wise Show, conducted by André Previn.

Some of the Lyric Pieces (for piano) are also well-known, as is the incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt, a play that Grieg found to be an arduous work to score properly. In a 1874 letter to his friend Frants Beyer, Grieg expressed his unhappiness with what is now considered one of his most popular compositions from Peer Gynt, In the Hall of the Mountain King: "I have also written something for the scene in the hall of the mountain King – something that I literally can't bear listening to because it absolutely reeks of cow-pies, exaggerated Norwegian nationalism, and trollish self-satisfaction! But I have a hunch that the irony will be discernible."^[11]

Grieg's popular Holberg Suite was originally written for the piano, and later arranged by the composer for string orchestra. Grieg wrote songs, in which he set lyrics by poets Heinrich Heine, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Henrik Ibsen, Hans Christian Andersen, Rudyard Kipling and others. Russian composer Nikolai Myaskovsky used a theme by Grieg for the variations with which he closed his Third String Quartet. Norwegian pianist Eva Knardahl recorded the composer's complete piano music during 1978 and 1980. The recordings were reissued in 2006 on 12 compact discs by BIS Records.

List of selected works[link]

• Piano Sonata in E minor, Op. 7
• Violin Sonata No. 1 in F major, Op. 8
• Concert Overture In Autumn, Op. 11
• Violin Sonata No. 2 in G major, Op. 13
• Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16
• Incidental music to Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's play Sigurd Jorsalfar, Op. 22
• Incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt, Op. 23
• Ballade in the Form of Variations on a Norwegian Folk Song in G minor, Op. 24
• String Quartet in G minor, Op. 27
• Album for Male Chorus, Op. 30
• Two Elegiac Melodies for Strings, Op. 34
• Four Norwegian Dances for piano four hands, Op. 35 (later orchestrated)
• Cello Sonata in A minor, Op. 36
• Holberg Suite for piano, later arr. for string orchestra, Op. 40
• Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45
• Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46
• Lyric Suite for orchestra, Op. 54 (orchestration of four Lyric Pieces)
• Peer Gynt Suite No. 2, Op. 55
• Suite from Sigurd Jorsalfar, Op. 56
• Four Symphonic Dances for piano, later arr. for orchestra, Op. 64
• Haugtussa Song Cycle after Arne Garborg, Op. 67
• Slåtter (Peasant Dances) for piano, Op. 72
• Sixty-six Lyric Pieces for piano in ten books, Opp. 12, 38, 43, 47, 54, 57, 62, 65, 68 and 71, including: Arietta, To the Spring, Little Bird, Butterfly, Notturno, Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, At Your Feet, Longing For Home, March of the Dwarfs, Poème érotique and Gone.

See also[link]

Biography portal

• Grieg's music in popular culture
• Song of Norway the operetta.

References[link]

Notes

Bibliography

• Benestad, Finn; Schjelderup-Ebbe, Dag (1990) [1980] (in Norwegian). Edvard Grieg – mennesket og kunstneren (2 ed.). Oslo: Aschehoug. ISBN 82-03-16373-4. 

Further reading[link]

English[link]

• Grieg The Writer ed. by Bjarne Kortsen. Vol I: Essays and Articles, vol II: Letters to Frants Beyer (editio norvegica, Bergen/Norway 1972)
• Edvard Grieg in England by Lionel Carley (The Boydell Press 2006) ISBN 1-84383-207-0
• Grieg: Music, Landscape and Norwegian Cultural Identity by Daniel Grimley (The Boydell Press 2006) ISBN 1-84383-210-0
• Songs of Edvard Grieg by Beryl Foster (The Boydell Press new edition 2007) ISBN 1-84383-343-3
• Edvard Grieg by Henry Theophilius Finck (Bastian Books new edition 2008) ISBN 978-0-554-96326-6
• Grieg by John Horton (London 1950)

Norwegian[link]

• Benestad, Finn/Schjelderup-Ebbe, Dag (2007): Edvard Grieg – mennesket og kunstneren. H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), Oslo. ISBN 978-82-03-23459-0
• Bredal, Dag/Strøm-Olsen, Terje (1992): Edvard Grieg – Musikken er en kampplass. Aventura Forlag A/S, Oslo. ISBN 82-588-0890-7
• Johansen, David Monrad (1956): Edvard Grieg. Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Oslo.
• Bøe, Finn (1949): Trekk av Edvard Griegs personlighet. Oslo.

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Edvard Grieg

• Grieg 2007. Official Site for 100th year commemoration of Edvard Grieg
• The Grieg archives at Bergen Public Library
• Troldhaugen Museum, Grieg's home
• Biography of Grieg by prof. Harald Herresthal
• Works by Edvard Grieg on Open Library at the Internet Archive
• Edvard Grieg statue by Sigvald Asbjornsen Prospect Park (Brooklyn)
• Films about Grieg's life: What Price Immortality? (1999), Song of Norway (1970)
• Edvard Grieg picture collection at flickr commons

Recordings by Edvard Grieg[link]

• Papillon – Lyric Piece, Op. 43, no. 1 as recorded by Grieg on piano roll, 17 April 1906, Leipzig (Info)
• Legendary Piano Recordings: The Complete Grieg, Saint-Saëns, Pugno, and Diémer (Marston Records)
• Edvard Grieg: The Piano Music In Historic Interpretations (SIMAX Classics – PSC1809)
• Grieg and his Circle (Pearl, GEMM 9933 CD)
• Grieg spiller Grieg (Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen)
• Piano Rolls (The Reproducing Piano Roll Foundation)

Music scores[link]

• Free scores by Edvard Grieg at the International Music Score Library Project
• Free scores by Edvard Grieg in the Werner Icking Music Archive (WIMA)
• Free scores by Edvard Grieg in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
• Free scores at the Mutopia Project

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Anne Dudley (born Anne Jennifer Beckingham, 7 May 1956, Chatham, Kent^[1]) is an English composer and pop musician, and was the first BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Association in 2001.^[2] She has worked in both the classical and pop genres. She is perhaps best known, however, as one of the core members of the synthpop band Art of Noise and also as a film composer. In 1998, she won an Academy Award for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score for The Full Monty.

Career[link]

Trained as a classical performer, Dudley then moved to the competitive commercial field as a session musician, where her professional relationship with Trevor Horn began. In 1982 Dudley made significant contributions to the Horn produced The Lexicon of Love album by ABC. She went from fleshing-out keyboard parts to scoring the album's orchestrations (her first ever string arrangements according to Horn^[3]) and also co-writing some of the songs. Her association with Horn, led on to working with groups such as Pet Shop Boys, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Seal, Marc Almond, Rod Stewart, Robbie Williams and more recently with Siphiwo. She has co-written songs with Malcolm McLaren "Buffalo Gals", Cathy Dennis "Too Many Walls", and a 1930's inspired song with Sting called "This Was Never Meant To Be".

As a producer, Dudley produced Tom Jones hit "You Can Leave Your Hat On" (1988) and a Debbie Harry single "Strike Me Pink" (1993) although controversy surrounded the track's promotional video which featured a man drowning in a water tank, resulting in its being banned. Dudley produced 2 tracks on the 2002 Opera Babes album "Beyond Imagination" (ranking No.1 on the UK classical charts for 11 weeks, and No.4 on the U.S. billboard charts). In 2004 she produced the album Voice for Alison Moyet. The album, an eclectic collection of covers, reached No.7 in the UK charts.

Dudley was a founding member of the successful band Art of Noise, who helped pioneer the use of sampling within the pop genre. Stand-out hits include Beat Box (1984), Moments in Love (1985) and Kiss with Tom Jones (1988).

Dudley's work for orchestra includes "Northern Lights", a 14 minute reflection of Norway's Aurora Borealis for full orchestra, performed in 2005 and 2006 at the Royal Festival Hall and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 Late Junction in May 2005. Her first commission as Composer in Association with the BBC Concert Orchestra was "Music and Silence", music inspired by the novel of the same name by Rose Tremain, first performed at The Royal Festival Hall in 2002. Dudley arranged Bach's Chaconne from Partita in D minor for Piano trio and a recording by the Eroica Trio appears on their "Baroque" album. Her album "Ancient and Modern" was released in 1999 and is a modern take on some traditional hymns and Bach chorales. Dudley was the musical director for "Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra" first performed in Brighton and at The Royal Albert Hall in 2008 which was recorded and available as a DVD. (released December 2009) The show was toured in 2009 with 8 different regional orchestras joining the banter - the gags are surreal - the orchestra play the Nokia theme tune and a French Horn concerto turns into the theme from Coronation Street.

Dudley collaborated with Sam Taylor-Wood in producing the sound and video installation "Sigh" at the White Cube in 2008. The work features the BBC Concert Orchestra on 8 large projected screens miming to Dudley's score.

Dudley's career in film music has spanned 20 years and her film scores include: American History X (1998) an American drama directed by Tony Kaye and starring Edward Norton; A Man Apart (2003) starring Vin Diesel; Black Book (2006) a World War II film directed by Paul Verhoeven; Bright Young Things (2003) British drama written and directed by Stephen Fry based on the novel Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh; Buster (1988) a British comedy drama starring musician Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb and Sheila Hancock; The Crying Game (1992) an Irish/British drama film written and directed by Neil Jordan; The Full Monty (1997) a Peter Cattaneo directed comedy about six unemployed steel workers who decide to form a male striptease act. Dudley won the "Best Original Musical or Comedy Score" Oscar for her music; The Gathering (2002) a Anthony Horowitz thriller directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Christina Ricci; The Grotesque (1997) released in the US as Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets a British film starring Alan Bates, Theresa Russell and Sting; Hollow Reed (1996) a drama directed by Angela Pope and set in Bath; Knight Moves (1992) American thriller directed by Carl Schenkel and starring Christopher Lambert; Lucky Break' (2001) a British feelgood comedy starring James Nesbitt and based around a prison escape; The Miracle Maker (2000) an animated feature film made for TV by BBC Wales with Russian model makers; Monkeybone (2001) an American film combining live-action and stop-motion animation starring Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda; Perfect Creature (2007) a New Zealand made horror/thriller film starring Leo Gregory; Pushing Tin (1999) a comedy-drama film directed by Mike Newell based around air traffic controllers in New York; The Pope Must Die (1991) a comedy film starring Robbie Coltrane the score was co-written with Jeff Beck; Silence Like Glass (Zwei Frauen) (1989) German made but set in a cancer ward at a hospital in America; Tristan & Isolde (2006) a Ridley Scott romantic drama based on the medieval romantic legend of Tristan and Iseult and starring James Franco and Sophia Myles; The Walker (2007) a drama written and directed by Paul Schrader set in Washington, D. C.; Her TV music includes scores for all episodes of Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie; Lynda La Plante's Above Suspicion; Kavanagh QC with John Thaw and The Tenth Kingdom an American epic fantasy TV miniseries written by Simon Moore.

Dudley has worked as a session musician for many artists and her string and orchestral arrangements crop up on a diverse array of albums. These include: Oleta Adams "Circle of One" album (reaching No.1 in the UK charts 1991); Marc Almond "Tenement Symphony" album which included the epic tracks "Jacky" and "The Days of Pearly Spencer"; The Associates "Wild and Lonely" album; Rick Astley "Free" album; B*Witched "Awake and Breathe" album; Chris Botti "Slowing Down the World" album; Boyzone "A Different Beat" album; Cher "It's a Man's World" album; Petula Clark "La Vie en Rose" track; Lloyd Cole and the Commotions "Rattlesnakes" album; Andrea Corr "Ten Feet High" album; Cathy Dennis "Move to This" and "Into the Skyline" albums; Electronic "Getting Away with It" single (reaching No.12 in the UK charts 1990); Frankie Goes to Hollywood "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" album which included their 2nd and 3rd No.1s "Two Tribes" and "The Power of Love"; Elton John "The Big Picture" album; Martyn Joseph "Being There" album; Kingmaker "Sleepwalking" album; Annie Lennox "Medusa" album (No.1 in the UK charts 1995); Let Loose "Best In Me" single; Virginia MacNaughton "The Music" album; Paul McCartney "Press to Play" album; Malcolm McLaren "Duck Rock" album; The Men They Couldn't Hang "A Map Of Morocco" single; George Michael "Careless Whisper" single (reaching No.1 in 25 countries); Liza Minnelli "Results" album (reaching No.6 in the UK charts 1989); The Moody Blues "Greatest Hits" album; Moist "Gasoline" single; Jimmy Nail "Crocodile Shoes" album (reaching No.2 in the UK charts 1994); The Painted Word "Lovelife" album; Pet Shop Boys "Very" album; Pulp "Different Class" and "This Is Hardcore" albums (both reaching No.1); Rialto "Monday Morning 5:19" single; Frances Ruffelle "Stranger To The Rain" single; S Club " 7 album" (No.1 in the UK charts 2000); Scarlet "Naked" album; Seal first 3 albums "Seal" "Seal II" "Human Being"; Siphiwo "Hope" album (featuring Nelson Mandela on the title track); Wendy Stark "Stark" album; Rod Stewart "A Spanner in the Works" album and "If We Fall in Love Tonight" album and the single "Downtown Train"; Suggs "The Lone Ranger" album; Travis "More Than Us" EP featuring Anne on the title track; Tina Turner "Wildest Dreams" album; Wet Wet Wet "Holding Back the River" album (reaching No.2 in the UK charts 1989); Wham! "Everything She Wants" single and "Young Guns (Go for It)" their first hit single; Robbie Williams "Reality Killed the Video Star" album; Will Young "Friday's Child" album (reaching No.1 in the UK charts 2004) and Leave Right Now single (reaching No.1 in the UK charts 2003).

In addition to Dudley's Academy Award for "The Full Monty", additionally she won a "Brit Award" for Best Soundtrack (1998). Previously she was awarded a "Brit" for "Buster" Best British Soundtrack 1989. She won a "Grammy Award" for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1986 for "Peter Gunn". She has three "Ivor Novello" nominations: "Crime Traveller" Best Original Music for Broadcast 1997; "The Key" Best Original Music for Television 2003 and "Trial and Retribution" Best Television Soundtrack 2008. She was made a Fellow of The Royal College of Music in 2004. In July 2011 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Kent.

Personal life[link]

Dudley lives in Hertfordshire, England, with her recording engineer husband Roger Dudley and daughter Angela.

Discography (not including work from Art of Noise)[link]

• Buster (1988)
• Songs From the Victorious City (1990) (collaboration with Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman)
• Jeeves and Wooster Album titled "The World of Jeeves & Wooster" (1991)
• The Pope Must Die (1991)
• The Crying Game (1992)
• Felidae (1994)
• Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets (1995)
• American History X (1998)
• Ancient and Modern (1999)
• Pushing Tin (1999)
• The 10th Kingdom (2000)
• A Different Light (2001)
• Monkeybone (2001)
• Seriously Chilled (2003)
• Tristan and Isolde (2006)
• Black Book (2006)

See also[link]

• Art of Noise

References[link]

External links[link]

• Anne Dudley's official webpage
• Anne Dudley discography at The Art Of Noise Online authorised website
• Anne Dudley at the Internet Movie Database
• Anne Dudley at Allmusic
• Anne Dudley discography at Discogs

Bruce Rowland (b. May 9, 1942 in Melbourne) is a well-known Australian composer. He composed the soundtrack for the 1982 movie "The Man from Snowy River", as well as the soundtrack for its 1988 sequel "The Man from Snowy River II" (which has the United States title of "Return to Snowy River", and the United Kingdom title of "The Untamed"). Both films were based on Banjo Paterson's poem The Man from Snowy River.^[1]

He composed a special Olympics version of the main theme of The Man from Snowy River Suite, as well as conducting the orchestra, for the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics which were held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ^[1]

He also composed special arrangements of some of his music for the 2002 musical theatre production "The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular" (which toured Australian capital cities — twice). The Original Cast Album of the show won the ARIA Award for Best Cast / Show Album). ^[2] In 2003, Bruce Rowland won the ARIA Award for his score for the musical^[3]

Rowland composed the music to the Oscar nominated animation "The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello".

NBC Sports also uses some of the music from The Man from Snowy River soundtrack for their coverage of The Players Championship.

Some of his early work was in television, where he was musical director for ATV0's The Go!! Show, Fredd Bear's Breakfast-A-Go-Go and the Magic Circle Club, then Adventure Island for the ABC.

Rowland received his education at Caulfield Grammar School in his hometown. He learned piano and was a keyboard player for Australian music groups, and singers.

Bruce has just completed new music for the forthcoming The Australian Outback Arena Show on Queensland's Gold Coast, commencing Oct 4, 2009.

Awards[link]

Awards won by Bruce Rowland^[3]

1982

• Won the AFI Award for Best Score for The Man from Snowy River

1983

• Won the AFI Award for Best Score for Phar Lap
• Won the Penguin Award for Best Score for All the Rivers Run

1984

• Won the Australasian Performing Rights Association Award for Best Score for The Man from Snowy River

1985

• Won the AFI Award for Best Score for Rebel
• Won the Australasian Performing Rights Association Award for Best Score for The Man from Snowy River
• Won the Australasian Performing Rights Association Award for Best Score for Phar Lap

1989

• Won the Australasian Performing Rights Association Award for Best Score for The Man from Snowy River (Return to Snowy River)

2003

• Won the ARIA Award for his score for The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular

2005

• Won the Australasian Performing Rights Association Award for Best Score for The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello

• Awarded the APRA/AGSC 'International Achievement Award'

References[link]

1. ^ ^{a b} Bruce Rowland official website
2. ^ "And the winners are..." — The Sydney Morning Herald (published 2002-10-16) (accessdate 2007-09-14)
3. ^ ^{a b} Bruce Rowland Awards — Bruce Rowland's official website

External links[link]

• Bruce Rowland Official Website
• Bruce Rowland IMDB