Bill Wrobel's DVD - Film Score Rundowns

http://www.amazon.com/Naked-City-York-
L/dp/B0000CG8HE/ref=sr_1_8?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1293681258&sr=1-8
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-Best of Abbott & Costello: Volume 3 *** [music **** Skinner]
http://www.amazon.com/Costello-Foreign-Frankenstein-Invisible-
Mountain/dp/B00023P4O2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1293681477&sr=1-1
“Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein” is included in this dvd set of eight
movies. I just love most of the Abbott & Costello movies, and especially the first season
of their tv show. Sheer fun! I always got big laughs out of their skits. Lou Costello is a
master comedian with his facial expressions and bodily gestures. And Frank Skinner is a
master composer, quite talented. I discussed his music in The Fighting O’Flynn.
I managed to acquire several of the cues from this movie but unfortunately they
are only the Conductor cues.
“Emblem” Cue # 20407. Three bars in 4/4 time. The Emblem refers to the
opening Universal-International logo. The Conductor page has four staves but no
instrumental identifications except for a reference to a harp gliss. In Bar 1, the bottom
staff shows instruments playing ff Great octave and small octave C# dotted quarter note
rinforzando-marked to D rinforzando 8ths down to Contra-octave and Great octave B
dotted quarter note rinforzando-marked to C# 8ths to (Bar 2) Contra-octave and Great
octave G# dotted quarter notes to A 8ths to Gb half notes tied to (end Bar 3) 8ths
(followed by rests). After a quarter rest in Bar 1, the third staff shows Line 1
D/F#/A/Line 2 D (D maj) rinforzando quarter notes (followed by a quarter rest) to
E/G/Line 2 C/E (C maj) to (Bar 2), after a quarter rest, F#/B/Line 2 D#/F# (B maj)
quarter notes to G/Line 2 C/E/G (C maj) half notes tied to 8ths next bar. The harp is gliss
from that half note up to the start of Bar 3. The second staff is not used. The top staff,
after a quarter rest, shows instruments playing ff Line 1 D/F#/A/Line 2 D/F#/A/Line 3 D
rinforzando quarter notes (followed by a quarter rest) to E/G/Line 2 C/E/G/Line 3 C/E
quarter notes, and so forth (see the third staff in terms of the same tonalities).
“Main Title” Cue # 20408, I believe 70 bars. Dvd location 00:00:10. I really
had fun with the cartoon opening and the introduction of the monsters via cartoon
animation. Very clever for this comedy, and quite fitting. The music itself is cartoon
music in effect, very much like the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes music. I bet Skinner had
a lot of fun composing this core!
In Bar 1, the top staff shows a fingered trem (and probably legato trem of the high
woodwinds) mp