Steven Schwartz wrote:

>Film Noir music of the Forties also used highly dissonant music.

This is exactly right.  And I was reminded of it just the other night
watching Nicholas Ray's impressionistic "They Live by Night" (1948) on
A&E.  Seeing the movie again now, 51 years later, it's hard to believe
Leigh Harline's score didn't turn audiences off, but it must have seemed
perfectly natural to me at the time, and perhaps to others as well, as I
do not recall disassociating the music from what was happening on screen.

John Dalmas
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