Film Music: A History
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-99199-5
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 26th November 2008
- Pages: 328
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About the Book
Film Music: A History explains the development of film music by considering large-scale aesthetic trends and structural developments alongside socioeconomic, technological, cultural, and philosophical circumstances.
The book’s four large parts are given over to Music and the "Silent" Film (1894–1927), Music and the Early Sound Film (1895–1933), Music in the "Classical-Style" Hollywood Film (1933–1960), and Film Music in the Post-Classic Period (1958–2008). Whereas most treatments of the subject are simply chronicles of "great film scores" and their composers, this book offers a genuine history of film music in terms of societal changes and technological and economic developments within the film industry. Instead of celebrating film-music masterpieces, it deals—logically and thoroughly—with the complex ‘machine’ whose smooth running allowed those occasional masterpieces to happen and whose periodic adjustments prompted the large-scale twists and turns in film music’s path.
Table of Contents
Preface 1. Introduction Part One: Music and the "Silent" Film (1894–1927) 2. Origins, 1894–1905 3. The Nickelodeon, 1905–1915 4. Feature Films, 1915–1927 Part Two: Music and the Early Sound Film (1894-1933) 5. The Long Advent of Sound, 1894-1926 6. Vitaphone and Movietone, 1926-8 7. Hollywood’s Early Sound Films, 1928-33 Part Three: Music in the "Classic-Style" Hollywood Film (1933-60) 8. The "Golden Age" of Film Music, 1933-49 9. Postwar Innovations and the Struggle for Survival, 1949-58 Part Four: Film Music in the Post-Classic Period (1958-2008) 10. A "New Wave" of Film Music, 1958-78 11. Eclecticism, 1978-2001 12. Epilogue, 2001-8 Notes. Bibliography. Index
About the Author(s)
James Wierzbicki is a musicologist who teaches at the University of Michigan and serves as executive editor of the American Musicological Society's Music of the United States of America series of scholarly editions. His current research focuses on twentieth-century music in general and film music and electronic music in particular.
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