Talk:Music Out of the Moon

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An Adventure...

The music in this album is in reality an exploration...using exotic harmonies, timbre and composition to play upon the more remote realms of human emotions.

It is music of a type that has been outstandingly successful as a mood-creating background for motion pictures dealing with the macabre, the fantastic.

It is music that can affect the sensitive mind in a way that is sometimes frightening...always fascinating.

Harry Revel created the basic "idea" and themes, while Leslie Baxter, arranger and conductor, has given them appropriately unique tone color, using the mass harmonies of human voices as well as unusual instrumental effects with woodwinds, strings and brass; some without rhythm, others with a dominant, demanding beat.

In many of the numbers you will hear the Theremin – a little known member of the musical family that is played by the motions of the hands in the air over an electronic field. The right hand gives pitch, the left volume, yet neither comes in direct contact with the instrument. A throbbing, almost human tone is created that has an eerie, vibrant beauty.

The artist who plays the Theremin is Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman, whose brilliant technique was heard in the music of "Spellbound," "Lost Weekend," "Spiral Staircase" and "The Red House."

A word about your first hearing of "Music Out of the Moon": You cannot get its full significance from a casual playing in a record booth, where the appeal may well be lost. But take it home – set the stage, in the evening when you are perhaps a little weary of the work-a-day world; its hypnotic beauty assures a unique musical adventure.

Cover posed by Virginia Clark of Earl Carroll's Theatre, Hollywood. Photography by Paul Garrison.

Sources: Music Out Of The Moon at Flickr.com with corrections and additions from video of cover at Youtube. — O'Dea (talk) 04:03, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Must be a list of the personnel from the original recordings & adaptations somewhere, particularly the pianist from "Lunar Rhapsody".Lmstearn (talk) 02:30, 10 February 2017 (UTC)