Rope: An Original Piece for String Orchestra Played Concurrently with Alfred Hitchcock's Film

<p>This thesis presents an original piece of music designed to be performed concurrently 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. The objective of this work is to challenge the existing relationship between music and film, and add to the growing body of repertoire of live works featuring synchronized video, modeling example methods of live multimedia performance. In this exploration, the goal was not to be anti-cinematic, but to be extra-cinematic; that is, to go beyond the traditional practices while still employing them when desired.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Music

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

School of Music

Year dc:date.available

2020

Author dc:creator

• Espie, Douglas William-Solomon

Contributors dc:contributor

• Stephen Lias
• Samantha Inman
• Scott LaGraff

• hitchcock
• film score
• string orchestra
• audiovisual
• multimedia
• music
• Composition

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/etds/304

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.sfasu.edu:etds-1346