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When composer Bernard Herrmann scored the film, The Day The Earth Stood Still, his groundbreaking techniques and use of the theremin were copied by many others— for example, in movies such as Spellbound and Ghostbusters. But the first all-electronic score to a mass-released film got attributed to the movie Forbidden Planet.

How Electronic Music Became Mainstream
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Nina Keh

Simon Dillon
Apr 3, 2022

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Bernard Herrmann is one of my favourite composers, and his score for The Day the Earth Stood Still is phenomenally innovative.

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Simon Dillon
Simon Dillon

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Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com

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