“The sound of an upside-down world: Jerry Goldsmith’s landmark score for Planet of the Apes (1968)” by Fitzgerald, Jon, and Philip Hayward

You will find the article, “The sound of an upside-down world: Jerry Goldsmith’s landmark score for Planet of the Apes (1968)” by Fitzgerald, Jon, and Philip Hayward, from Music and the Moving Image 6, no. 2 (2013): 32-44. You have experienced a small bit of this film; more extensive selections are available on YouTube. Read the article carefully and write a summary of the authors’ argument/account of the use of music in the film. In the last third of your essay, please respond to the authors’ claims. Is their analysis convincing? Why or why not? How might you see using their approach in the analysis of other films?