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Fantasia Night on Bald Mountain Ave Maria educational online |
| music by Modest Mussorgsky "Night on Bald Mountain" and Franz Schubert "Ave Maria"; section from Fantasia (1940) movie. |
DescriptionThe Night on Bald Mountain segment is a showcase for animator Bill Tytla, who gave the demon Chernabog a power and intensity rarely seen in Disney films. The nocturnal Chernabog summons from their graves empowered restless souls, until driven away by the sound of a church bell. Noted actor Bėla Lugosi served as a live action model for Chernabog, and spent several days at the Disney studio, where he was filmed doing evil, demon-like poses for Tytla and his unit to use as a reference. Tytla later deemed this reference material unsuitable and had studio colleague Wilfred Jackson perform in front of the cameras for the reference footage. |
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Directed by Wilfred Jackson. Story development: Campbell Grant, Arthur Heinemann, and Phil Dike. Art direction: Kay Nielsen, Terrell Stapp, Charles Payzant and Thor Putnam. Background painting: Merle Cox, Ray Lockrem, Robert Storms, and W. Richard Anthony. Special English lyrics for Ave Maria by Rachel Field. Choral director: Charles Henderson . Operatic solo: Julietta Novis. Animation supervision: Vladimir Tytla. Animation: John McManus, William N. Shull, Robert W. Carlson, Jr., Lester Novros, and Don Patterson. Special animation effects: Joshua Meador, Miles E. Pike, John F. Reed, and Daniel MacManus. Special camera effects: Gail Papineau and Leonard Pickley. The educational section for every young person who learns online good quality music is included in Fantasia movie music NotesIn 1886, five years after Mussorgsky's death, Rimsky-Korsakov published an arrangement of the work, described as a "fantasy for orchestra." Some musical scholars consider this version to be an original composition of Rimsky-Korsakov, albeit one based on Mussorgsky's last version of the music. It is through Rimsky-Korsakov's version that Night on Bald Mountain achieved lasting fame. Premiering in Saint Petersburg in 1886, the work became a concert favourite. Half a century later, the work obtained perhaps its greatest exposure through the Walt Disney animated film Fantasia (1940), featuring an arrangement by Leopold Stokowski, based on Rimsky-Korsakov's version. Mussorgsky's tone poem was not published in its original form until 1968. Although still rarely performed, it has started to gain exposure and become familiar to modern audiences. Ave Maria is one of Schubert's most popular works. Beyond the song as originally composed by Schubert, it is often performed and recorded by many singers under the title "Ave Maria" (the Latin name of the prayer Hail Mary, and also the opening words and refrain of Ellen's song, a song which is itself a prayer to the Virgin Mary), in musically simplified arrangements and with various lyrics that commonly differ from the original context of the poem. Watch musics from original movie soundtrack |
