The Grove Music Guide To American Film Music

Author : Daniel Goldmark
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0190636262

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The Grove Music Guide to American Film Music by Daniel Goldmark Pdf

The Grove Music Guide to American Film Music documents the lives and works of many of the individuals responsible for writing music for some of the most popular and well-known films, television shows, video games, and music videos ever created. Its 150 articles and 30 images, updated and expanded from The Grove Dictionary of American Music by film scholar Daniel Goldmark, cover key composers, sound engineers, and other figures in American film music history, and include in-depth articles on film music, musical film, production music, video game music, television music, television musicals, and music videos. This book is intended first and foremost as a musical primer for the student of American film, television, and video, whether you're a casual fan, a longtime listener, or someone wanting to gain a deeper understanding of those who have shaped the modern media soundtrack. Bibliographies are curated, not comprehensive, and are most detailed for the subject areas and composers who have been especially popular with historians.

Author : Kathryn Kalinak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Motion picture music
ISBN : 9780197628034

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Film Music: a Very Short Introduction by Kathryn Kalinak Pdf

"Film Music: A Very Short Introduction focuses on the most central issues in the practice of film music. What is film music? How is it composed? How does film music work? Why does film music work? The rich and deeply moving sounds of film music are as old as cinema. The very first projected moving images were accompanied by music around the globe as a variety of performers-from single piano players to small orchestras-brought images to life. Film music has since become its own industry, an aesthetic platform for expressing creative visions, and a commercial vehicle for generating increased revenue. The second edition updates coverage to 2022 and includes attention to recent developments in global film music, women in film music, and African -American and minority composers"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004549609

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Word, Sound and Music in Radio Drama by Anonim Pdf

This collection offers an in-depth study of music’s narrative functions in radio drama, whether original or adapted, alongside speech and sound. It features a range of historical perspectives as well as case studies from Australia, Europe and North America, highlighting broadcasting institutions such as the BBC, RAI, ABC, WDR and SWR, from early radio to the medium’s postwar golden age and contemporary productions. Not limited to classical or popular music, the chapters also pay attention to electronic varieties and musical uses of language, in addition to intermedial exchanges with other art forms such as theatre, opera and film. In doing so, the present volume sits at the crossroads of various disciplines: musicology, narratology, history, literary, media, sound and radio studies.

Author : Warren M. Sherk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Music
ISBN : 0810876868

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Film and Television Music by Warren M. Sherk Pdf

Music has played a critical component in the success of films. This volume compiles over 100 years of writings devoted to the subject of film and television music and its practitioners.

Author : Donald William Krummel
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Music
ISBN : 0252014502

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Bibliographical Handbook of American Music by Donald William Krummel Pdf

Author : David Parkinson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780756647124

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The Rough Guide to Film Musicals by David Parkinson Pdf

The perfect companion to cinema's most spectacular genre, The Rough Guide to Film Musicals reveals how an escapist entertainment became Hollywood's most ingenious art form. From such enduring classics as Singin' In The Rain and West Side Story to recent successes like Evita and Chicago, this book reviews 50 essential musicals, including several forgotten gems. There are profiles of musical icons such as Fred Astaire, Judy Garland and George Gershwin and details of musicals from around the world. Complete with a list of the best soundtracks, websites and books for further reading, this Rough Guide takes a behind the scenes look at this magical movie genre.

Author : James E. Perone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216145875

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Smash Hits by James E. Perone Pdf

We are what we listen to. That's the premise of this study of 100 songs that have shaped and defined the American experience, from the Colonial period to the present. Well-known music author James Perone looks at 100 songs that helped tell America's story. He examines why each song became a hit, what cultural and social values it embodies, what issues it touches upon, what audiences it attracted, and what made it such a definitive part of American history and popular culture. The chart-topping singles presented here crossed gender, age, race, and class lines to appeal to the mass American audience. The book discusses patriotic songs, minstrel music, and sacred songs and hymns as well as music in the broad categories of pop, rock, hip hop, jazz, country, and folk. An introduction provides an overview of the history and significant issues raised by the songs as a whole. Individual songs are then presented chronologically, based on when they were written. The revealing commentary for each "hit" is not only interesting and fun, but reveals what it was like to live in the United States at a particular time by unveiling the social, economic, and political issues—as well as the musical tastes—that made life what it was.

Author : James Wierzbicki
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781461669432

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Louis and Bebe Barron's Forbidden Planet by James Wierzbicki Pdf

Forbidden Planet is a product of the MGM studio, which at the time of the production of this film was hardly in the business of making science-fiction films. Originally planned as a "B" picture, the 1956 Forbidden Planet was praised for its spectacular special effects and brilliant color cinematography. The plot practically tingles with sexual innuendo and the dialogue is rich in references to Freudian psychology. However, in spite of all this, the film was marketed to a juvenile audience. Notwithstanding its uncommon look and "feel," perhaps the most unusual aspect of the film is the way it sounds. Never before had a major Hollywood effort utilized a score generated entirely by electronic means, yet seldom does one find commentary on how Louis and Bebe Barron's score again and again challenges Hollywood norms. In addition to placing the composers and film in historical context, James Wierzbicki's study offers a deep and thorough analysis of not only the music as used in the film, but also of the decontextualized music as presented by the Barrons on the 1977 "original soundtrack album." The text is generously illustrated with transcriptions and graphs, and can serve as a model for the examination of other extended works of electronic music for which no written score has ever existed.

Author : Stanley C. Pelkey,Anthony Bushard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199936175

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Anxiety Muted by Stanley C. Pelkey,Anthony Bushard Pdf

"In this collection, contributors employ diverse critical methods and perspectives to explore the role of music in American film and television of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as in films from more recent years that allude to, reflect back upon, or recreate those decades. Particular attention is given to uncovering how motion picture culture and its music treated anxieties about suburbanization, conformity, the family, and gender"--Provided by publisher.

Author : H. Stephen Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Motion picture music
ISBN : UOM:39015039139426

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Film Music Collections in the United States by H. Stephen Wright Pdf

Author : Nicholas W. Reyland
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810883659

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Zbigniew Preisner's Three Colors Trilogy: Blue, White, Red by Nicholas W. Reyland Pdf

Director Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy—Blue (1993), White (1993), and Red (1994)—is one of the great achievements of European film. A meditation on liberty, equality, and fraternity, these three films marked the culmination of the director's career, as well as the zenith of one of the most important creative collaborations in 20th-century cinema-between Kieslowski, scriptwriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz, and composer Zbigniew Preisner. Thanks to their close working relationship, music for the Three Colors trilogy achieves both a focal narrative and philosophical function. At times, Preisner's music advances the narrative independently of the films' other codes; at other times, it creates a metaphorical space into which the audience is invited in order to read for "deeper" messages. As the first major scholarly treatment of Preisner's music, Nicholas Reyland's Zbigniew Preisner's Three Colors Trilogy: A Film Score Guide fills an important void in film score scholarship. In this guide, Reyland analyzes the historical context of the film scores, the life of the composer, the hermeneutic and narrative role of the music within the film, and the musical scoring techniques used for the trilogy. This volume also draws on an interplay of established "classic" approaches to analyzing film music and more recent approaches in the exploration of its themes and readings. In addition, the composer's willingness to be interviewed by Reyland enhances the musicological scholarship of this book, giving the reader privileged access into the process of scoring. A significant contribution to both film studies and musicological literature, this book celebrates one of the great cinematic achievements of the last few decades.

Author : Walter Simmons
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781538103845

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The Music of William Schuman, Vincent Persichetti, and Peter Mennin by Walter Simmons Pdf

William Schuman, Vincent Persichetti, and Peter Mennin were three of the most significant American composers of the 20th century, yet their music has largely disappeared from view since their respective deaths. Because they each spent the majority of their careers working at the Juilliard School and Lincoln Center, their music is often viewed as "interchangeable." In The Music of William Schuman, Vincent Persichetti, and Peter Mennin: Voices of Stone and Steel, Walter Simmons provides a thorough examination of the lives and work of these artists, clarifying their considerable individuality both as composers and as human beings. The book begins with a comprehensive introduction summarizing the conventional view of the history of American music, while noting the marginalization of traditionalist composers—those who preferred to work with the musical forms and developmental principles on which the body of Western classical music is based. In the chapters that follow, each composer is presented through a brief overview and a biographical essay, followed by a general description of his style. Extensively researched and including detailed discussions and insights, the sections include lists of the composer's "most representative, fully realized works" and then provide systematic overviews of most or all of their compositions, giving the reader a general understanding of the artist and his work. The overviews contain a description of each composition, information concerning first performance and first recording, excerpts from reviews as well as Simmons' own critical assessment of each, and a statement of its place within the composer's output as a whole. A selected bibliography and essential discography follows at the end of each chapter.

Author : William A. Everett,Paul R. Laird
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521862387

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The Cambridge Companion to the Musical by William A. Everett,Paul R. Laird Pdf

Revised and updated edition of this popular Companion, containing five completely new chapters.

Author : Tighe E. Zimmers
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780786439058

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Tin Pan Alley Girl by Tighe E. Zimmers Pdf

Best known as the writer of the lyric for the popular Disney song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" as well as the American standard "Willow Weep for Me," Ann Ronell was also a translator and orchestrator for operatic works. This biography traces Ronell's life from her early days in Omaha, Nebraska, and recounts her marriage to producer Lester Cowan and her friendships with George Gershwin, Kurt Weill and the baritone John Charles Thomas. Includes more than 40 photographs, a chronology, family tree and film credits.

Author : Jeff Lenburg
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781438110400

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The Facts on File Guide to Research by Jeff Lenburg Pdf

The Facts On File Guide to Research is a comprehensive guide to doing thorough and accurate research. It includes a detailed listing of available resources and explains general research methods and proper citation of sources. An invaluable reference, this book helps researchers make use of the many new resources available today. Divided into four sections, this easy-to-use guide helps students and general readers prepare for research papers and class studies. Step-by-step guides, detailed explanations, and valuable appendixes covering style guides, such as APA. MLA, and The Chicago Manual of Style, combine to create an incredibly authoritative accessible reference.