Abstract
The place and role of music in Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece 2001 : A Space Odyssey (1968) offers to discuss preexisting versus composed music in science fiction movies. The study of musical themes such as Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra, Johann Strauss’s Blue Danube, experimental works by Gyôrgy Ligeti and compositions by Aram Khachaturian will show how Kubrick uses preexisting music in the visual narrative of this film. Kubrick’s musical choices for 2001 are to be opposed to science fiction movies from the 50's and the 60 ’s as welle as to more recent ones such as George Lucas’ Star Wars. 2001 suggests that music might be capable of expressing and arousing feelings and sensations contained in the images. This approach to the role of music in the visual narrative is also relevant in two other films in Kubrick’s musical trilogy, A Clockwork Orange (1971) and Barry Lindon (1975).
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