Easy Listening And Film Scoring 1948 78

Author : Jack Curtis Dubowsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429997679

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Easy Listening and Film Scoring 1948-78 by Jack Curtis Dubowsky Pdf

Composers, arrangers, conductors, session musicians, and executives worked in easy listening and scoring, complicating an academic focus that lionizes film music while ignoring or deriding easy listening. This book documents easy listening’s connections with film music, an aspect overlooked in academic and popular literature. Fueled by the rise of the LP and home entertainment, easy listening became the largest midcentury commercial music market, generating more actual income for the record business than 7- inch singles. Easy listening roped in subgenres including classical, baroque, jazz, Latin, Polynesian, "exotica," rock, Broadway, and R&B, appropriated and reinterpreted just as they were for cinema. Easy listening provided opportunities in orchestral music for conservatory- trained composers. Major film composers such as Henry Mancini and Michel Legrand had a prodigious output of easy listening albums. Critics fault easy listening for structural racisms, overlooking its evolution and practitioners. Easy listening helped destabilize a tripartite record business that categorized product as race records, old time records, or general popular music. Charlie Parker’s with Strings records altered the direction of jazz, profoundly influencing other performers, encouraging bold crosspollinations, and making money. The influence of technology and historical contexts of music for work and leisure are explored. Original interviews and primary sources will fascinate scholars, historians, and students of cinema, television, film scoring, and midcentury popular music.

Author : Jack Curtis Dubowsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429997662

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Easy Listening and Film Scoring 1948-78 by Jack Curtis Dubowsky Pdf

Composers, arrangers, conductors, session musicians, and executives worked in easy listening and scoring, complicating an academic focus that lionizes film music while ignoring or deriding easy listening. This book documents easy listening’s connections with film music, an aspect overlooked in academic and popular literature. Fueled by the rise of the LP and home entertainment, easy listening became the largest midcentury commercial music market, generating more actual income for the record business than 7- inch singles. Easy listening roped in subgenres including classical, baroque, jazz, Latin, Polynesian, "exotica," rock, Broadway, and R&B, appropriated and reinterpreted just as they were for cinema. Easy listening provided opportunities in orchestral music for conservatory- trained composers. Major film composers such as Henry Mancini and Michel Legrand had a prodigious output of easy listening albums. Critics fault easy listening for structural racisms, overlooking its evolution and practitioners. Easy listening helped destabilize a tripartite record business that categorized product as race records, old time records, or general popular music. Charlie Parker’s with Strings records altered the direction of jazz, profoundly influencing other performers, encouraging bold crosspollinations, and making money. The influence of technology and historical contexts of music for work and leisure are explored. Original interviews and primary sources will fascinate scholars, historians, and students of cinema, television, film scoring, and midcentury popular music.

Author : Jack Curtis Dubowsky
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781040044582

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Composing for Silent Film by Jack Curtis Dubowsky Pdf

Composing for Silent Film offers insight, information, and techniques for contemporary composition, arrangement, and live score performance for period silent film. A specialized music composition guide, this book complements existing film scoring and contemporary music composition texts. This book helps today’s composers better understand and correctly interpret period silent film, and to create and perform live scores that align with films’ original intentions, so that audiences notice and grasp fine points of the original film. Composing for Silent Film analyzes period silent film and its conventions – from Delsarte acting gestures to period fascinations and subtexts. As a practical composition text, it weighs varying approaches, including improvisation, through-scoring, "mickey-mousing," handling dialogue, and dividing roles amongst players. It steers composers towards informed understanding of silent film, and encourages them to deploy contemporary styles and techniques in exciting ways. For clarity and concision, examples are limited to nine canonical silents: Metropolis, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Mark of Zorro, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, The Black Pirate, Nosferatu, The Phantom Carriage, Daisy Doodad’s Dial, and The Golem.

Author : John Howland
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520300101

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Hearing Luxe Pop by John Howland Pdf

"Hearing Luxe Pop explores a deluxe-production aesthetic that has long thrived in American popular music. John Howland presents an alternative music history that centers on shifts in timbre and sound through innovative uses of media, orchestration, and arranging. He travels from symphonic jazz to the Great American Songbook; teenage symphonies of the Motown label and 1960s girl groups to the emerging "countrypolitan" sound of Nashville; the sunshine pop and baroque pop of the Beach Boys to the blending of soul and funk into 1970s disco; the hip-hop-with-orchestra events of Jay-Z and Kanye West to indie rock bands with the Brooklyn Philharmonic. The luxe aesthetic merges popular-music idioms with lush string orchestrations, big-band instrumentation, and symphonic instruments. This book attunes readers to hearing the discourses that gathered around the music and its associated images, and in turn examines pop's relations to aspirational consumer culture, spectacle, theatricality, glamour, sophistication, cosmopolitanism, and "classy" lifestyles"--

Author : Jens Gerrit Papenburg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501346712

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Listening Devices by Jens Gerrit Papenburg Pdf

From 1940 to 1990, new machines and devices radically changed listening to music. Small and large single records, new kinds of jukeboxes and loudspeaker systems not only made it possible to playback music in a different way, they also evidence a fundamental transformation of music and listening itself. Taking the media and machines through which listening took place during this period, Listening Devices develops a new history of listening.Although these devices were (and often still are) easily accessible, up to now we have no concept of them. To address this gap, this volume proposes the term “listening device.” In conjunction with this concept, the book develops an original and fruitful method for exploring listening as a historical subject that has been increasingly organized in relation to technology. Case studies of four listening devices are the points of departure for the analysis, which leads the reader down unfamiliar paths, traversing the popular sound worlds of 1950s rock 'n' roll culture and the disco and club culture of the 1970s and 1980s. Despite all the characteristics specific to the different listening devices, they can nevertheless be compared because of the fundamental similarities they share: they model and manage listening, they actively mediate between the listener and the music heard, and it is this mediation that brings both listener and the music listened to into being. Ultimately, however, the intention is that the listening devices themselves should not be heard so that the music they playback can be heard. Thus, they take the history of listening to its very limits and confront it with its “other”-a history of non-listening. The book proposes “listening device” as a key concept for sound studies, popular music studies, musicology, and media studies. With this conceptual key, a new, productive understanding of past music and sound cultures of the pre-digital era can be unlocked, and, not least, of the listening culture of the digital present.

Author : Jerry Osborne,Bruce Hamilton
Publisher : Phoenix : O'Sullivan Woodside
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Popular music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042528377

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Record Albums, 1948-1978 by Jerry Osborne,Bruce Hamilton Pdf

Author : Jerry Osborne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Phonorecord collecting
ISBN : UCSD:31822011198108

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Popular & Rock Records, 1948-1978 by Jerry Osborne Pdf

Author : Ennio Morricone,Sergio Miceli
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810892422

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Composing for the Cinema by Ennio Morricone,Sergio Miceli Pdf

With nearly 400 scores to his credit, Ennio Morricone is one of the most prolific and influential film composers working today. He has collaborated with many significant directors, and his scores for such films as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Once Upon a Time in America; Days of Heaven; The Mission; The Untouchables; Malèna; and Cinema Paradiso leave moviegoers with the conviction that something special was achieved—a conviction shared by composers, scholars, and fans alike. In Composing for the Cinema: The Theory and Praxis of Music in Film, Morricone and musicologist Sergio Miceli present a series of lectures on the composition and analysis of film music. Adapted from several lectures and seminars, these lessons show how sound design can be analyzed and offer a variety of musical solutions to many different kinds of film. Though aimed at composers, Morricone’s expositions are easy to understand and fascinating even to those without any musical training. Drawing upon scores by himself and others, the composer also provides insight into his relationships with many of the directors with whom he has collaborated, including Sergio Leone, Giuseppe Tornatore, Franco Zeffirelli, Warren Beatty, Ridley Scott, Roland Joffé, the Taviani Brothers, and others. Translated and edited by Gillian B. Anderson, an orchestral conductor and musicologist, these lessons reveal Morricone’s passion about musical expression. Delivered in a conversational mode that is both comprehensible and interesting, this groundbreaking work intertwines analysis with practical details of film music composition. Aimed at a wide audience of composers, musicians, film historians, and fans, Composing for the Cinema contains a treasure trove of practical information and observations from a distinguished musicologist and one of the most accomplished composers on the international film scene.

Author : Jack Curtis Dubowsky
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137454218

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Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness by Jack Curtis Dubowsky Pdf

Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness uses musicology and queer theory to uncover meaning and message in canonical American cinema. This study considers how queer readings are reinforced or nuanced through analysis of musical score. Taking a broad approach to queerness that questions heteronormative and homonormative patriarchal structures, binary relationships, gender assumptions and anxieties, this book challenges existing interpretations of what is progressive and what is retrogressive in cinema. Examined films include Bride of Frankenstein, Louisiana Story, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Blazing Saddles, Edward Scissorhands, Brokeback Mountain, Boys Don't Cry, Transamerica, Thelma & Louise, Go Fish and The Living End, with special attention given to films that subvert or complicate genre. Music is analyzed with concern for composition, intertextual references, absolute musical structures, song lyrics, recording, arrangement, and performance issues. This multidisciplinary work, featuring groundbreaking research, analysis, and theory, offers new close readings and a model for future scholarship.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X002663322

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Gramophone by Anonim Pdf

Author : New York Public Library. Music Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015024175682

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Bibliographic Guide to Music by New York Public Library. Music Division Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Audio equipment industry
ISBN : UVA:X002663297

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The Gramophone by Anonim Pdf

Author : Theodor W. Adorno,Hanns Eisler
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0826480160

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Composing for the Films by Theodor W. Adorno,Hanns Eisler Pdf

This classic account of the nature of film music aesthetics was first published in 1947. Its value comes from a unique combination of talents and experience enjoyed by the book's authors. Eisler's time at Hollywood gave him a particular insight on the technical questions which arise for composers when music is used in the production of films, while Adorno was able to contribute on wide aesthetic and sociological matters as well as specifically musical questions. Above all, the authors envisaged the book as a contribution to the study of modern, industrialized culture; and, in this respect, it has a particular importance to the whole area of cultural studies. With an introduction by Graham McCann.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Music
ISBN : UVA:X002083716

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Opus by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nicolas Slonimsky,Laura Diane Kuhn
Publisher : New York : Schirmer Books
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 002865529X

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Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians by Nicolas Slonimsky,Laura Diane Kuhn Pdf