I think the thing with being a composer today and starting with a rock background, is that a rock background is just waaay more accessible. I'm pretty happy, that is changing more and more through free Samples like SSO or VSCO2, but getting into composing orchestral music was just really expensive I think all these years ago. So if you wanna be creative and you can do classical compositions, that will probably never be performed or just have a band, i would (and did) go with having a band. (While that is oversimplifing a lot. I think getting into rock music is also way easier, then listening to classical stuff. It is so way more demending and at least for me it took years after really getting into music to really appreciate it.)
I think scores today are not borrowing so much from romanticism but more from minimal music. Some examples of what I mean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQTGEAqqRzs and also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNlE-RF5hoc
I feel like a very big distinction to me is that movie score today are way more modal, while romantic compositions focus a lot around building harmonies with dominants. While you hear that also in movie scores (like Pirates of the Caribian), but it is always more of a colour to produce the aura of something "old", noble and like bourgeoisie.
All seems to be more about textures in generell then about melodies.
I think orchestration has changed in so far that mixing is now a bigger deal. I think they both are actually very related though. They both seem to be having enough and the right space for everything in the end.
EDIT: I'm not sure what I think of that though. I think there is this tendency to just judge this things as lesser music. I can see why, but I could also argue that Mozart is pretty boring from the textures he used. I think in the end music that is melodicly interresting as well as sonical is probably the best, but thats just my opinion. And a very non-confrontetial one probably. A lot of people would probably argee with my wishes in music but still have very different ideas of what it sounds like.
I think scores today are not borrowing so much from romanticism but more from minimal music. Some examples of what I mean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQTGEAqqRzs and also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNlE-RF5hoc
I feel like a very big distinction to me is that movie score today are way more modal, while romantic compositions focus a lot around building harmonies with dominants. While you hear that also in movie scores (like Pirates of the Caribian), but it is always more of a colour to produce the aura of something "old", noble and like bourgeoisie.
All seems to be more about textures in generell then about melodies.
I think orchestration has changed in so far that mixing is now a bigger deal. I think they both are actually very related though. They both seem to be having enough and the right space for everything in the end.
EDIT: I'm not sure what I think of that though. I think there is this tendency to just judge this things as lesser music. I can see why, but I could also argue that Mozart is pretty boring from the textures he used. I think in the end music that is melodicly interresting as well as sonical is probably the best, but thats just my opinion. And a very non-confrontetial one probably. A lot of people would probably argee with my wishes in music but still have very different ideas of what it sounds like.
