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an early electronic instrument.
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Mere days before production
started on January 2nd,
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Whale and Waxman met
at a Christmas party.
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Whale explained that nothing in the story
would be resolved, everyone would die,
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and offered Waxman the job if he would
give him an unresolved musical score.
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The orchestra for the Bride sessions was
conducted by Constantin Bakaleinikoff.
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Session photographs show 32 players
on the recording stage,
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14 of whom are violinists.
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Orchestration sheets reveal that at its
largest the orchestra had 40 players.
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Waxman music appeared memorably
in Universal's Flash Gordon serials.
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Cues from his score have been recorded
by Charles Gerhardt and Erich Kunzel.
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In 1993, Kenneth Alwyn conducted
the first substantial recording
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of the nearly complete score.
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Waxman's use of timpani here echoes
the heartbeat of the monster bride.
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Boris's monster in the first film
looked like triage at an auto wreck,
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his face and torso swathed in bandages,
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naked legs truncating
in size 16, triple-E foot splints.
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The script called for the mate
to give the effect of an Egyptian mummy,
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and this was realised exactly,
including leg bindings.