...music made to move

I am one of those few people who not only love to listen to all different kinds of music from diverse genres,  but also to music whose purpose it is to emphasize, direct or change people’s mood and feelings. It is not the kind of „every-day“music you might hear on the radio, which is why I am actually so very fond of it. What I am referring here to, as you might have already guessed, is film music.
To my mind, this music is the most incredible kind that has ever been invented. Like I already mentioned above, it is composed to affect your mood and to make you feel want the composers or the movie's producers want you to feel. Fear, Excitement, sadness: Only music adds the finishing touches to the scene which will eventually have your eyes tear or your heartbeat speed up. So could you even imagine a movie without music? I have tried to watch a movie with the volume on mute and I realized very soon, that whatever kinds of tension or feelings are present in the movie scene do not reach the viewer. When you add the music though, our senses are compelled by the movie and only then it becomes a real movie.
The composers most gifted in this area to my mind are  Howard Shore and Hans Zimmer. It is not important if their names are not familiar to you, because their work is most probably something you came across nonetheless. Howard Shore composed the music of the "The Lord of Rings" trilogy and of course “The Hobbit”. Hans Zimmer on the other hand contributed his artwork to movies like Pirates of the Caribbean, Inception and The Dark Knight. Their music has really impressed me very much and its effects still puzzle me whenever I listen to it. If you don’t believe me, just listen to Hans Zimmer’s “Time” or Howard Shore’s “A knife in the dark” and you will soon understand where my compassion for film music comes from.