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Film Music: A History

Film Music: A History

Wierzbicki, James

Paperback

Music ReferenceMusic Theory

ISBN10: 0415991994
ISBN13: 9780415991995
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 1 2008
Pages: 332
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.80
Language: English

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.

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