Classical music in film

The effects of classical music’s use in film, from background score to primary focus.

This is a playlist of clips that illustrate various manners and effects of classical music’s use in film. The playlist begins with nondiegetic uses (background scores, for example) of classical music, before moving to examples of characters interacting with diegetic classical music, and finally to clips from films in which classical music is the primary focus.

Curator

Dr Jonathan Godsall, Royal Holloway, University of London

Subject

• Music, film

Keywords

classical music, nondiegetic music, diegetic music