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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Film Music"”.
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Film, Music, and the Narrational Extra Dimension
… addresses the role of so called nondiegetic film music, also known as background or score music, as it pertains to the overall structure of processes involved in cinematic presentation. Some of the questions that are normally asked here are: Where is this music supposed to be coming from? Who …
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South African film music: representation of racial, cultural and national identities, 1931-1969
The thesis examines the role of music in South African film pertaining to representation of identity of South African peoples and cultures, from the country's earliest sound films until the industry expansion of the 1970s. Chapter 1 contextualizes the study in relation to South African film and …
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What Is That Song? : Aleksej Balabanov's Brother and Rock as Film Music in Russian Cinema
… dissertation examines the role of rock songs as film music in Russian cinema and how one important film, Aleksej Balabanov’s Brother (Brat, 1997), reshaped film music conventions in the 1990s. The study is divided into two sections: the first is a historical examination of more than twenty films …
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How Film and TV Music Communicate
… within a critical framework, three books on Film Music written by myself.(1) The books, written between 2013 and 2015, are targeted toward students of film music and professional practitioners. This Commentary has given me the opportunity to address a variety of relevant scholarship, which …
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Music, action, and narrative in film : an energetic and gestural approach to film score analysis
<p>Film music often contains close relationships to filmic and narrative imagery, creating complex relationships that are not always apparent. Many traditional means of musical analysis are not equipped to account for these extramusical associations. Film music analysis may benefit from considering …
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Mystery of the Wax Museum: An Original Film Score for Orchestra and an Analysis Outlining the Evolution of Film Music Through American Horror Films of the Early 1930s
… the transitional period between silent films and fully-scored sound films. Connecting the history between producers, directors, and composers reveals how and why film scoring became an accepted practice by the mid-1930s while shedding light on the commonly-overlooked composers whose …
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Moodtrack : practical methods for assembling emotion-driven music
… for the deconstruction and reassembly of musical works based on a target emotional contour. Film soundtracks provide an ideal testing ground for organizing music around strict timing and emotional criteria. The approach to media analysis applies Minsky's ideas of frame-arrays to the …
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From popular music to the film score: innovation, interrogation, corporeality
This thesis explores innovation in contemporary film scoring practice, specifically as it relates to the sonic output of composers and musicians with a background in popular music. In so doing, it investigates significant and distinctive work in this intriguing domain of artistic endeavour, and …
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The transient composer: rearrangement of pre-existing music in the film score
This thesis addresses a prominent gap in existing film music scholarship by examining rearrangement as a recurrent and important practice in contemporary screen scoring. While the use of pre-existing music in the soundtrack is a vibrant area of inquiry (see Ashby 2013; Godsall 2019; McQuiston 2013; …
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Sound and Image: Experimental Music and the Popular Horror Film (1960 to the present day)
… generic and historical context - experimental music and the popular horror film, from 1960 to the present day. The study responds to a significant gap in the literature that requires sustained and in-depth academic attention. Despite recent expansion, the field of film music studies has yet to …
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The Whole as a Result of Its Parts: Assembly in Aaron Copland's Score for The Red Pony
Aaron Copland's music for The Red Pony (1948-49), based on John Steinbeck's story collection, is probably the best known of his film scores. The effectiveness of The Red Pony score stems from Copland's belief that film music should be subordinate to the film it accompanies. Copland composed The Red …
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Scoring for the Specter: Dualities in the Music of the Ghost Scene in Four Film Adaptations of Hamlet
… is to analyze dualities found in different films of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Each version brings different ideas to it. By analyzing each version and focusing on the Ghost Scene, comparisons of the scene's symbolism are made between the musical scores. The beginning chapters provide a history …
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Two shadows in the moonlight : music in British film melodrama of the 1940s
In this thesis I examine the differences between music in the two cinemas. Concentrating on exemplary films from the late 1930s to the early 1950s, I show how the apparent differences are manifested, and by analysing a number of key British films, I illustrate the modes of musical expression used. …
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A RAFT THROUGH STORMS (A.R.T.S.)
… creative work in difficult times. Comprised of film, music, poetry, visual art, and community engagement, each genre and collaborative action offers a unique opportunity for meditation and discovery—with the sum being greater than the parts. Subject matter includes the traumatic effects of …
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Alban Berg's Lulu
… numbers, demonstrating development towards the musical and dramatic climax of the work. This is exemplified by Geschwitz's Recitative, Schon's Arietta, 'Turrnltuoso, the exposition of Alwa's Rondo, Schon's Aria, Lulu's Lied, Schon's death and the Film Music, from Act II/1. The third chapter …
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Alban Berg's Lulu
… numbers, demonstrating development towards the musical and dramatic climax of the work. This is exemplified by Geschwitz's Recitative, Schon's Arietta, 'Turrnltuoso, the exposition of Alwa's Rondo, Schon's Aria, Lulu's Lied, Schon's death and the Film Music, from Act II/1. The third chapter …
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Unfamiliar sounds in familiar settings: On the cosmopolitan labour of film composers in Istanbul
Filmmaking in Turkey has long, convoluted history. The Turkish film industry developed, flowered, and declined before being nearly obliterated altogether by a military coup in 1980. Following the nearly total disappearance of a coherent studio system, a new approach to filmmaking, the New Turkish …
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Escape from the Evil Empire
… was created with the idea of composing original music for an epic, major motion picture. The original text speaks of unwanted souls in a nation from which they must escape. Screaming women, textpainting, heavy percussion, dissonance, and axial tonality are the backbone of this opus, combining the …
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Totality of experience: sound, music and mythology in Gus Van Sant’s “Death Quartet”
Reflecting on Gus Van Sant’s films Gerry (2003) Elephant (2004) and Last Days (2005), the director’s long-term sound-designer Leslie Shatz observed that “You have to get into the totality of the experience and not just the dialogue”. Shatz’s comment expresses something fundamental about the …
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Feminizing the West African diaspora in France: 1974-2005
… unexplored sources from print, literature, film, TV, radio, and interviews, and focusing on women of West African heritage in France, my work constructs what might be termed an aspirational history of diasporic society and culture. While as entrepreneurs, creators and artists, these women …
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