Packet 4: Tossup 7

This composer played his music for the video game Enemy Zero over footage from his film archives for a 2010 shot-by-shot remake of Man with a Movie Camera. For a sci-fi film, this composer digitally added extra chords to Schubert’s Impromptu in G-flat major, thus making it impossible to play without having 12 fingers. The soundtracks of The Trip and the Philippe Petit documentary Man on Wire draw from this (15[1])composer’s film music, such as the soprano saxophone melody “Chasing Sheep Is Best Left to Shepherds.” This composer scored (15[1])Gattaca after the success of a film in which his Dickinson-inspired (15[1])piece “The Heart Asks (*) Pleasure First” (10[1]-5[2])was performed by (10[1])actress Holly Hunter. Henry Purcell inspired this composer’s scores for films by a painter-turned-director, like The (-5[1])Draughtsman’s Contract and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. For 10 points, the scores for The Piano and several films by Peter Greenaway (10[2])are by what minimalist (10[1])composer? ■END■ (10[2]0[5])

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