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apmnut

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Pantoscope
« on: December 10, 2023, 06:20:40 PM »
(I initially posted a partial discography for this label in the TRF thread, but I figured, since it's different from the rest of the TRF output (mostly Italian albums with their name slapped on them), I figured it'd be a good idea to spin this off into its own thread.)



US label under Alpha Music, BMI, distributed by TRF Music, and seemingly a label comprised entirely of music written specifically for their library. While these albums were released commercially on the Montilla label (and the "Musicana USA" series of LPs were released with the aim to give the consumer access to quality mood music for non-theatrical purposes on disc), it would appear these were seemingly also distributed as library for commercial productions as well. A few of these tracks, as mentioned in the TRF thread, were later released on Folkways' "Background Music for Home Movies" LP twofer along with several Bosworth tracks (also distributed by the TRF label for some time).

Sketches of Mood Music series (1959):
PS 10001: Industrial Panorama: Sketches of Mood Music Volume 1, music performed by the Telrafilm Symphony Orchestra and composed by Vaclav Nelhybel
PS 10002: Metropolis: Sketches of Mood Music Volume 2, music performed by the Telfrafilm Dance Orchestra and composed by Alexander Barta

Musicana, U.S.A. series (all music performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra of Madrid, conducted by Alexander Semmler, also released in '59):
PS 10501: Volume 1: Western Horizons (composed by Semmler) and Romantic Suite (composed by Charlies Lichtler)
PS 10502: Volume 2: Greenwich Village (composed by Michael R. Colicchio) and Dark Landscapes (composed by Semmler), additional music by John Gart and Nelhybel
PS 10503: Volume 3: Vistas (composed by Nelhybel) and Voices in the Night (composed by Semmler), additional music by Willis Schaefer, Sam S. Fiedel, Amber Roobenian and Guido Vandt
PS 10504: Volume 4: Shadows (composed by Nelhybel) and Live a Little! (composed by Semmler), additional music by George Cole, Fiedel and Vandt
PS 10504: Volume 5: Music to a Tragedy and Journal D'Amour (composed by Semmler), additional music by Gart and W. Clark Harrington

1959 date for the Musicana albums taken from a flyer that came with these albums, sighted on an eBay listing not too long ago:
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