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When You Wish Upon A Star
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Browse piano sheets by Leigh Harline on Zen Virtual Piano. Leigh Harline was a composer whose path to film music passed through university study and the many demands of radio. He studied at the University of Utah, then worked in Los Angeles as a composer, conductor, performer, vocalist and announcer. Those different roles formed his professional life before he joined Disney in 1932, moving from radio work into music for animated films. By the time he was assigned the score and songs for Pinocchio, Harline had already worked on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and scored about fifty short films. These included The Band Concert, Music Land and The Old Mill. Harline composed the music for When You Wish Upon A Star, with lyrics by Ned Washington. Its melody follows a thirty-two-bar A-A-B-A form familiar from Tin Pan Alley songs. The Academy recognized the song at the 1941 ceremony, while the film’s original-score award named Harline alongside Paul J. Smith and Washington.
Browse piano sheets by Leigh Harline on Zen Virtual Piano.
Leigh Harline was a composer whose path to film music passed through university study and the many demands of radio. He studied at the University of Utah, then worked in Los Angeles as a composer, conductor, performer, vocalist and announcer. Those different roles formed his professional life before he joined Disney in 1932, moving from radio work into music for animated films.
By the time he was assigned the score and songs for Pinocchio, Harline had already worked on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and scored about fifty short films. These included The Band Concert, Music Land and The Old Mill.
Harline composed the music for When You Wish Upon A Star, with lyrics by Ned Washington. Its melody follows a thirty-two-bar A-A-B-A form familiar from Tin Pan Alley songs. The Academy recognized the song at the 1941 ceremony, while the film’s original-score award named Harline alongside Paul J. Smith and Washington.
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He worked in Los Angeles radio as a composer, conductor, performer, vocalist and announcer. He joined Disney in 1932 after that varied radio career.
His roughly fifty short-film scores included The Band Concert, Music Land and The Old Mill. He had also worked on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Harline studied at the University of Utah. The Library of Congress essay describes him as a formally trained composer.