Thomas Morse
Thomas Morse( born June 30, 1968) is an American composer of film and concert music.
Amedeo Escobar
Amedeo Escobar( 1888–1973) was an Italian composer of film scores.
Yankee Dood It
Yankee Dood
It is a Warner Brothers" Merrie Melodies" theatrical cartoon short released in 1956 and directed by Friz Freleng and written by Warren Foster.
The title is a pun on Red Skelton's famous" I Dood It" line from the Mean Widdle Kid routine.
" Yankee Dood It" was the last of three cartoons to be underwritten by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which also underwrote" By Word of Mouse" and" Heir- Conditioned"; like the other two, they are all available on the second disc of.
This cartoon is also one of the few cartoons where the character Sylvester has no speaking lines( except for" Ah- ha!" and" Sufferin' Succotash").
Bert Grund
Bert Grund( 1920–1992) was a German composer of film scores.
Alonso Mudarra
Alonso Mudarra( c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar- shaped string instrument.
He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar.
Henri Verdun
Henri Verdun( 1895–1977) was a French composer of film scores.
Scott Bradley (composer)
Walter Scott Bradley (November 26, 1891 – April 27, 1977) was an American composer, pianist, arranger, and conductor.
Bradley is best remembered for scoring the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) theatrical cartoons, including those starring Tom and Jerry
(MGM Cartoon Studio, 113 of 114 shorts), Droopy (all 24 shorts), Barney Bear (all 26 shorts), Screwy Squirrel (all 5 shorts), George and Junior (all 4 shorts) and many one-off cartoons.
In an autobiographical sketch, Bradley noted that he began his career performing with and later conducting theatre orchestras in Houston, Texas.
He studied organ and harmony with Horton Corbett, the choir director of Houston's Christ Church Cathedral, but was "otherwise entirely self-taught in composition and orchestration."
(Years later, when he was already established in Hollywood, he sought to improve his technique by studying privately with MGM colleague Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco).
In 1926, Bradley moved to Los Angeles to conduct programs over KHJ Radio, an activity that led to his growing involvement in animation at the start of the talkie era.
He was a staff musician for Walt Disney (1929) and the Ub Iwerks studio (1930–1934), then became music director for Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising, who were hired to produce cartoon shorts for MGM.
After MGM established its own cartoon studio in 1937, Bradley was hired permanently and remained with the company for twenty years.
During the 1930s, Bradley also composed music for the concert hall, including the tone poems "The Valley of the White Poppies" (1931) and
"The Headless Horseman" (1932) and the oratorio "Thanatopsis" (1934), based on the poem by William Cullen Bryant.
His most notable success was "Cartoonia" (1938), a four-movement orchestral suite of his MGM work, premiered by Pierre Monteux with the San Francisco Symphony.
It was an early expression of Bradley's belief that cartoon music was an art form of great potential.
As was common practice in scores for animation, Bradley's early style incorporated fragments of popular and traditional melodies.
By the mid-1940s, however, his compositions and orchestrations had become more original and complex, occasionally utilizing the twelve-tone technique devised by Arnold Schoenberg; the first being the 1944 Tom and Jerry cartoon
"Puttin' on the Dog".
Other influences were Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky and Paul Hindemith. "
Sight & Sound" magazine quoted concertmaster Lou Raderman's mock complaint: "Scott writes the most "blank-blank-blank" difficult fiddle music in Hollywood … He is going to break my fingers!"
Bradley expressed considerable pride in his "funny music" and believed scoring for animation offered far more possibilities to the composer than live-action films.
About his score for MGM’s "Puttin’ on the Dog", he later wrote: "I hope Dr. Schoenberg will forgive me for using his system to produce funny music, but even the boys in the orchestra laughed when we were recording it."
The conductor Simon Rattle has specifically highlighted the influence of the Klaus-Narr passages in Schoenberg's "Gurrelieder" on Bradley's compositions.
In 1954, MGM terminated his weekly contract but retained his services as a freelance, paying him $1,000 per film.
This arrangement lasted until MGM closed its cartoon department in 1957, after which Bradley retired.
He died on April 27, 1977 in Chatsworth, California and is buried at Chatsworth's Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery.
By the late 1980s, Bradley's reputation had been overshadowed by that of
his Warner Bros. counterpart Carl W. Stalling, but experienced a resurgence at the start of the 21st century.
The first Bradley soundtrack album, "Tom and Jerry and Tex Avery Too!", received a limited-edition release in 2006 and the "Cartoonia" suite was revived in a performance by the Cleveland Youth Orchestra in 2012.
The following year, "Tom and Jerry at MGM", a six-minute orchestral suite of Bradley cues reconstructed by Peter Morris and John Wilson, received its world premiere at a BBC Proms concert in London.
Walter Ulfig
Walter Ulfig was a German composer of film scores.
The Early Bird Dood It!
The Early Bird Dood It!
is a 1942 MGM cartoon directed by Tex Avery and produced by Fred Quimby.
The composer of this cartoon was Scott Bradley.
Abe Meyer
Abe Meyer( 1901 – 1969) was an American composer of film scores.

Question: What nationality is the composer of film The Early Bird Dood It!?
Answer: American