High Noon
Dimitri Tiomkin’s Oscar-Winning Ballad and its Russian Sources
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/jfm.v2i2-4.225Keywords:
Dimitri Tiomkin, film scores, film musicAbstract
Legendary Hollywood composer Dimitri Tiomkin (1894-1979) represents a golden era of film, arguably an apex of the role music has played in cinematic art. His presence in films was as strong as that of the film director: for example, the font size of Tiomkin’s name in the screen credits for Red River (1948) is the same as that of director Howard Hawks. This paper explores the Russian sources of Tiomkin's High Noon.
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Beregovskii, Moisei. 1938. Yevreiskie Narodnyie Pesni [Jewish Folk Songs]. Kiev.
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Bogoslovsky, Nikita Vladimirovich. 2003. Svet lyubvi. Pesni dlya golosa i fortepiano. Izdatel’stvo Kompozitor: Sankt Peterburg. [Light of Love. Songs for Voice and Piano. Composer: Saint Petersburg.]
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Kushnarev, Christofor. 1967. Articles, memoirs, and materials. Musika: Leningrad.
Nekhamkin, Ernst. “Vozrashcheniye “Oskaronostsa.” [The Return of the Oscar-holder.] 22.06.2004. http://www.sem40.ru/ourpeople/famous/11886/ (accessed 30 June 2009).
Rossiiskiy Gosudarstvennïy Arkhiv Literaturu i Iskusstva. Fond 998 Meierkhol’d. [RGALI, Fund 998 MEYERHOLD.]
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Rossiiskiy Gosudarstvennuy Arkhiv Literaturu i Iskusstva. Fond 2758 Straukh, delo 2163. [RGALI, Fund 2758 STRAUKH, case 2163. War Cinema Collection No.11. On the reissuing of the Two Soldiers on 21 June, 1961]
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Slonimsky, Nicolas. 1988. Perfect pitch: A life story. New York: Oxford University Press.
Tarnovsky, Konstantin. 1984. Kompozitor Nikita Bogoslovsky. Etapï Tvorcheskoy Zhizni’. Moskva, Kompozitor. [Composer Nikita Bogoslovsky: Stages of his Creative Life. Soviet Composer: Moscow.]
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Teplish, Alexander. 2000-2005. Odessa, Zhemchuzhina u moray [Odessa, a Perl at the Sea]. Anthology of Odessan Folk Songs. In six volumes. Odessa: Southern Initiative.
Thomas, Tony. 1973. Music for the movies. New York: A.S. Barnes & Co.
Tiomkin, Dmitri. Please don’t hate me. Manuscript. Tiomkin Collection, USC.
———. 1972. Interview. Voice of America. In Russian. (April). http://www.voanews.com/russian/archive/2002-09/a-2002-09-22-5-1.cfm (accessed 30 June 2009).
Tsentral’nuy Gosudarstvennïy Arkhiv Literaturu i Iskusstva. Fond 3070 Yutkevich. Opis’ 1 yedinitsa 560. Moskva. [ZGALI, Fund 3070 JUTKEVITCH, unit 560. Shorthand record.]
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Yefimova, Marina. “Golivudskii kompozitor Dmitrii Tyomkin.” [Hollywood Composer Dmitri Tiomkin]. http://archive.svoboda.org/programs/OTB/2003/OBT.021203.asp (accessed 30 June 2009).
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Zuckerman, Victor. 1957. Kamarinskaya Glinki I yeye traditsii v Russkoi muzike [Glinka’s Kamarinskaya and Its Traditions in Russian Music].Moscow: State Music Editions.
Published
2010-03-15
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Section
Westerns
How to Cite
Khannanov, I. (2010). High Noon: Dimitri Tiomkin’s Oscar-Winning Ballad and its Russian Sources. Journal of Film Music, 2(2-4), 225-248. https://doi.org/10.1558/jfm.v2i2-4.225
