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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"film score"”.
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Un Chien Andalou – An Orchestral Film Score
Un Chien Andalou - An Orchestral Film Score, is a one-movement work for small orchestra composed as live accompaniment to the 1929 silent film Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali. Several factors went into my decision to compose a soundtrack for this movie. It is a well known film and …
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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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The Postnational Soundtrack: Defining the Canadian Documentary Film Score Through Identity, Space, and Compositional Practice
… Post article, renowned Canadian documentary filmmaker and journalist Kevin McMahon compared documentary film to iconic Canadian symbols, such as the colour red, the maple leaf, and the beaver (McMahon, 2012). Indeed, documentary film holds historical and cultural significance in Canada, …
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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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The Whole as a Result of Its Parts: Assembly in Aaron Copland's Score for The Red Pony
… 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 Pony score using his self-described method of "assembly," augmenting this …
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Rope: An Original Piece for String Orchestra Played Concurrently with Alfred Hitchcock's Film
… with Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948). The film provides a canvas upon which a musically dominant multimedia experience is built. An accompanying analysis explains the variety of compositional techniques used, explaining their significance and how each deviates from a traditional film score. …
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Piano and popular culture: how Snow White and Charlie Brown made it to the concert hall
… whether or not these pieces draw upon the scores that are culturally attached to these characters such as the music that accompanies the Peanuts televised specials composed by Vince Guaraldi and the film score for Snow White composed by Frank Churchill. The piano works dealing with each …
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A Performance Guide for Thomas Pasatieri's Bel Canto Songs for Voice and Piano
… composer, who has also worked extensively as a film score orchestrator for major movie titles. The poet for the text in Bel Canto Songs is English poet, engraver, and artist William Blake, who lived from the mid-Eighteenth century into the Nineteenth century. Chapter One discussed the life and …
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Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Land of Confusion - a film by Jeremy Zerechak Music Composed by Joseph Miller
Land of Confusion is a feature film documenting a Pennsylvania National Guard unit's 2004 tour during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The creation of its musical score represents a major milestone in its composer's musical development. In combination with the postproduction remix, also by Joseph Miller, …
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The later orchestral works of William Walton: a critical and analytical re-evaluation
… an Impromptu of Benjamin Britten (1969), and the film score for Battle of Britain (1969), has been particularly underrepresented in critical and analytical writing. In this thesis, I give detailed analyses of these scores, alongside an investigation of the contemporary critical climate and …