Music and Image

Hi
today I want to comment on the relation between music and image, and how only by changing the music, the meaning of the image can change completely.
We can see this in Film music. The best film scores are the ones that not only accompany what is happening, but the ones that add something else to the action, whether if it is something sad, melancholic, tension, etc.
Also, with music alone we can be transported to a character's thinking, dreaming, imagining or even what he is feeling.
For example, if we take the famous scene from Star Wars, when Darth Vader is arriving from a spaceship, and the doors slowly open so we can see him getting out from his feet to his head; the scene itself it's great because visually we have the character and the tension is built with the camera starting slowly showing him from his feet to his head, but the music adds Darth Vader's presence to the scene. If we would play this scene with a waltz, the result wouldn't be the same.

Here I leave some other examples of this.

First a scene from The Amazing Spiderman; where he is fighting against the Lizard at school. The first half of the scene we can hear action music (and a lot of fighting action as well), but at the end the director makes a joke, and we can see a librarian hearing classical music facing at the camera, whilest in the back we can see Spidermann and the Lizard destroying the room. There we can only hear what the librarian is listening, and the tone of the scene changes inmidiately, only by changing what we can hear.

Here is a scene from the film Amadeus, where Salieri is reading Mozart's works. As he turns the pages, we can hear the music that is written on the paper, which gives the scene much more richness and transport us to the character's mind and feelings much better as if we only saw him look at the music and changing the pages. We are on Salieri's head, just as Mozart's music is.