Korngold's composition in The Adventures of Robin HoodOne of the things that stands out most about Erich Wolfgang Korngold's music is that, as noted in the module, his music is very symphonic. Many earlier film works such as Gone with the Wind (1939), composed by Max Steiner, and The Birth of a Nation (1915), composed by Joseph Breil, seem somewhat blocky in their composition because the music seems to jump from leitmotif to leitmotif. This doesn't mean the music isn't good, just that it's more blocking. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on “Why violent video games should not be banned”?Get the original essayIn The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), the music seems more organic to me because, although it contains leitmotifs, Korngold combine many more melodies and mix them together. For example, many leitmotifs in The Birth of a Nation and Gone With The Wind were either monophonic or had only a single melody and a counter-melody. In Korngold's work in The Adventures of Robin Hood, the music is more complex with many counter-melodies playing at the same time. I find that individual songs or leitmotifs seem more balanced in terms of instrumentation. For example, Scarlett O'hara's (Vivian Leigh) leitmotif in Gone With the Wind featured woodwinds, with strings in the counter-melodies, but the melody was mostly carried by the flutes and piccolos. On the other hand, during the lumberjacks' festival, the music begins with brass and woodwinds, then the strings become louder, then the piccolos take up the melody. Then all the other instruments drop out, leaving only the strings. This makes the music more interesting and less complex because each instrument is more equally represented in a single song. Another big difference I noticed between Korngold's music and Steiner's is that Korngold seems to use less miky-mouse. In the scene we watched from Gone With the Wind, the opening song descended chromatically as Scarlett walked down the stairs. Later, the music was very in sync with the visuals, such as the music stopping when she threw the vase against the wall and building up when she slapped Ashley (Leslie Howard). The same thing happens in another Steiner work, King Kong, although more subtly, where the resounding bassoon imitates Kong's footsteps. Conversely, the music in The Adventures of Robin Hood doesn't align as synchronously with the visuals. In a sword training fight between Robin Hood and Friar Tuck (Eugene Pallette), the music is intense but the tempo doesn't match their choreography..