Comments on: Citizen Kane Leitmotifs and Rachmaninoff’s Isle of the Dead https://filmmusicnotes.com/citizen-kane-leitmotifs-and-rachmaninoffs-isle-of-the-dead/ Understanding the Art of Film Music Tue, 08 Feb 2022 19:32:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Bruce Merrill https://filmmusicnotes.com/citizen-kane-leitmotifs-and-rachmaninoffs-isle-of-the-dead/#comment-48397 Mon, 29 Aug 2016 04:46:40 +0000 https://filmmusicnotes.com/2013/02/26/citizen-kane-leitmotifs-and-rachmaninoffs-isle-of-the-dead/#comment-48397 Very useful, thanks! I especially appreciated grasping how the two motifs are worked together during the opening death scene. Also, I was able to get that the R motif on the flute here, is repeated, on the flute, when Kane meets Susan and then after she leaves.
There is a brilliant essay on the score for CK written by the French Welles scholar, Francois Thomas. Unfortunately, I can’t locate it since I’m away from my CK library. But a netsearch should turn it up.

]]> By: Oswald Iten https://filmmusicnotes.com/citizen-kane-leitmotifs-and-rachmaninoffs-isle-of-the-dead/#comment-37798 Sat, 04 Apr 2015 13:46:51 +0000 https://filmmusicnotes.com/2013/02/26/citizen-kane-leitmotifs-and-rachmaninoffs-isle-of-the-dead/#comment-37798 Just came across your focused analysis. You might already know this, but Herrmann himself stated that the “destiny” (power) motif to him was “a sort of variant on the ancient hymn ‘Dies Irae'”.

However, regarding the use of the Rosebud motif I have always believed that it appears in the Susan scenes not because Susan was a positive influence (meeting her starts the downward spiral after all) but because of her snow globe that reminds him of his hermetically sealed childhood.

]]> By: Film Score Junkie https://filmmusicnotes.com/citizen-kane-leitmotifs-and-rachmaninoffs-isle-of-the-dead/#comment-36214 Thu, 26 Feb 2015 16:13:05 +0000 https://filmmusicnotes.com/2013/02/26/citizen-kane-leitmotifs-and-rachmaninoffs-isle-of-the-dead/#comment-36214 In reply to Haxo Angmark.

Thanks, Haxo. Your comment’s much appreciated!

]]> By: Haxo Angmark https://filmmusicnotes.com/citizen-kane-leitmotifs-and-rachmaninoffs-isle-of-the-dead/#comment-36207 Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:43:55 +0000 https://filmmusicnotes.com/2013/02/26/citizen-kane-leitmotifs-and-rachmaninoffs-isle-of-the-dead/#comment-36207 yes, you nailed it. I remember that scene in the library, where Joseph Cotton is researching Kane. The Isle of the Dead theme is blasted out, loudly, on horns

]]> By: Jeremy Mage https://filmmusicnotes.com/citizen-kane-leitmotifs-and-rachmaninoffs-isle-of-the-dead/#comment-11665 Mon, 31 Mar 2014 20:35:12 +0000 https://filmmusicnotes.com/2013/02/26/citizen-kane-leitmotifs-and-rachmaninoffs-isle-of-the-dead/#comment-11665 This is incredibly helpful. Does anyone know an online resource where I could find an electronic version of the prelude from CK? if so please write music @ jeremymage dot com . . . thanks!!!!!

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