Music and Melody

Music and Melody is an 2023 American animated anthology film.

Film segments
This particular film has ten such segments.

Get a Horse!
This segment presents Mickey, his favorite gal pal Minnie Mouse and their friends Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow as they delight in a musical hayride in a horse-drawn wagon – until Peg-Leg Pete shows up in a car and tries to run them off the road. Mickey and Horace are forced through the movie screen into the modern-day theater, emerging as color, CGI version of themselves. Mickey proceeds to do battle with Pete on both sides of the screen, enlisting the aid of Horace (who had briefly left the theater to get modern concessions and 'borrow' a smartphone). They outwit Pete by flipping the screen on different axes to alternately change the flow of gravity and of time, causing Pete to repeatedly injure himself on the same objects. Finally, the movie screen falls apart, revealing a modern CGI landscape, and the now modernized Disney characters return to the film, fading out in time for Pete to get stuck in the iris. The Pied Pipers sang the title song.

Butterfly Of Color
This segment featured animation originally intended for Fantasia 2000 using the Claude Debussy musical composition Symphony No. 5 in C minor-I. Allegro con brio by Ludwig van Beethoven. Abstract patterns and shapes resemble butterflies in reds, oranges, yellows, greens, blues, purples, and pinks in shades, tints, and hues. Bats explore a world of light and darkness which is ultimately conquered by light. However, by the time Muisc and Melody was released Symphony No. 5 in C minor-I. Allegro con brio was replaced by the new song Butterfly Of Color, performed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Singers. However, the original version of the segment still survives.

MusicVille
This segment presents The Simpsons are transformed into musical instruments in MusicVille. The music is courtesy of Hans Zimmer And His Orchestra

Tonight
This segment presents Sky Moon Water Wind Flower Animal Waterfall Blow Rain Sun Bird Fish Butterfly Rock Dreams Magical from A Goofy Movie. sung by Phil Collins

Pooh Dreams
This segment presents The song is about phantasmagoric elephants (heffalumps) and weasels (woozles) becoming a threat to Pooh and his food source (honey). The song serves as a soundtrack to the iconic, psychedelic "Pooh Nightmare" sequence where Pooh subconsciously deals with the theft of his all-too-precious honey. The sequence is generally considered by audiences to be quite eerie for a children's film. Elements from this song are played when Pooh can hear growling and banging noises from outside his house, which turn out to be Tigger. sung by Raymond McLeod, Michael D. Moore, Scott Wojahn

The Three Little Bops
This segment presents The short opens with a display of the book that shows the Three Little Pigs who used to play pipes and dance jigs. The short then focuses to the present day and reveals the pigs now play modern instruments and perform as The Three Little Bops.

During a gig at the House of Straw, the Big Bad Wolf appears and proves he is friendly by stating that he wants to join the band. The Wolf happens to be terrible at playing his choice instrument (a trumpet) so the pigs throw him out. Feeling insulted, the Wolf retaliates by blowing down the straw house, forcing the pigs to go to the Dew Drop Inn, the House of Sticks.

Things go well (including the piano playing pig doing an imitation of Liberace's "I wish my brother George was here"), until the Wolf comes in and attempts to play his trumpet again. Like the pigs, the people watching also think the wolf's playing is corny, so they call for the pigs to "throw the square out", which they do. Again, the Wolf retaliates by blowing down, or "dropping out," the Dew Drop Inn. The pigs then realize that in order to escape the Wolf's "windy tricks," they will go to the House of Bricks (built in 1776, according to a cornerstone).

For the pigs, the House of Bricks has a "No Wolves Allowed" rule, so when the Wolf tries to get in, he is punched in the face by a bouncer. Then he tried to ram the door down with a log but with no success. The Wolf runs out of breath in trying to blow away the club, but thinks he can get in by disguising himself. He reenters in fur coat and ukulele with his perfect rendition of the Charleston song (cut short by slipping on a strategically thrown banana peel). He returns in the disguise of a houseplant with his trumpet but gets blasted outside by a plunger shot from the double bass. For his third try, the Wolf shows up in a drum major outfit playing a big bass drum to the tune of "Don't Give Up the Ship". A dart is shot into the drum to deflate it, leaving him to exit in humiliation.

Not the least bit deterred, he shows up with a large cylinder of TNT and snaps, "I'll show those pigs that I'm not stuck! If I can't blow it down, I'll blow it up!" The fuse is blown out on his first try, so he steps back a bit and lights it from there. Unfortunately for him, he is too far away and his weapon explodes while he is carrying it to his target.

The narrator reveals that the explosion did not send the Wolf to Heaven but down to Hell ("the other place"), where his trumpet playing improves. When the pigs hear this, one of them proudly replies, "The Big Bad Wolf, he learned the rule: you gotta get hot to play real cool!" The Wolf's spirit then rises up through the floor and joins in for the final notes prompting one of the pigs to alter their band's name to "The Three Little Bops Plus One". Jodi Benson sang the title song.

The Steadfast Tin Soldier
This segment featured animation originally intended for Fantasia 2000 This segment was an animated dramatization of the Nutcracker Suite by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, with narration by actor Kelsey Grammer. Each character is represented with a specific musical accompaniment as follows:
 * The Ballerina (Dance of the Reed Flutes)
 * The Tin Soldier (March)
 * Jack-in-the-Box (The Battle)
 * Rat (Russian Dance)

Bumble Boogie
This segment presents a surrealistic battle for a solitary bumble bee as he tries to ward off a visual and musical frenzy. The music is courtesy of Freddy Martin And His Orchestra (with Jack Fina playing the piano) and is a swing-jazz variation of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, which was one of the many pieces considered for inclusion in Fantasia.

These Are My Rivers
This segment featured animation originally intended for Fantasia 2000 using the Claude Debussy musical composition Firebird Suite – 1919 Version by Igor Stravinsky. The story of the Spring Sprite and her companion, an elk, who accidentally awakes the Firebird, a fiery spirit of destruction in a nearby volcano. The Firebird proceeds in destroying the forest, and seemingly the sprite. The Sprite survives, and the elk encourages her to restore the forest to its normal state. However, by the time Muisc and Melody was released Firebird Suite – 1919 Version was replaced by the new song These Are My Rivers, performed by the Kimmy Robertson, Caroline Vasicek and Disney Chorus. However, the original version of the segment still survives.

The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met
The bittersweet finale about a Sperm Whale with incredible musical talent and his dreams of singing Grand Opera. A legend is spread throughout the city that there is an opera-singing whale, but as it is seemingly disproven, it is assumed that the whale has swallowed an opera singer who is the one the sailors are actually hearing sing. The short-sighted impresario Tetti-Tatti believes this and sets out to destroy Willy, the newspapers announcing that he was going to see. Whitey, Willy's seagull friend, excitedly brings Willy the newspaper, all of his friends believing that this is his big chance, so he goes out to meet the boat and sing for Tetti-Tatti. He finds them, and upon hearing Willy sing, Tetti-Tatti comes to believe that Willy has swallowed not one, but THREE singers (due to his having three uvulae), and chases him with a harpoon on a boat with three crewmen. Upon hearing the whale sing, the crewmen try to stop Tetti-Tatti from killing the whale, as they want to continue listening to him sing, even to the point of tying up Tetti-Tatti and sitting on him, however he still manages to escape and fire the harpoon gun. In the end, Willie was harpooned and killed, but the narrator then explains that Willy's voice will sing on in Heaven. Richard White narrated and performed all the voices in this segment. As Willie the Whale, Richard White sang all three male voices in the first part of the Sextet from Donizetti's opera, Lucia di Lammermoor.

Cast

 * Richard White as Narrator; characters (The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met)
 * Jodi Benson as Singer (The Three Little Bops)
 * Freddy Martin as Musician (Bumble Boogie)
 * Kimmy Robertson, Caroline Vasicek and Disney Chorus as Singer (These Are My Rivers)
 * Raymond McLeod, Michael D. Moore, Scott Wojahn as Singer (Pooh Dreams)
 * Kelsey Grammer as Narrator (The Steadfast Tin Soldier)
 * Phil Collins as Singer (Tonight)
 * The Pied Pipers as Singer (Get a Horse!)
 * Hans Zimmer as Musician (MusicVille)
 * Mormon Tabernacle Choir as Singers (Butterfly Of Color)