Film Music: A History
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Film Music: A History
Book Details
- Author
- James Wierzbicki
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780415991995
- ISBN-10
- 0415991994
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ISBN: 0415991994
Author: Wierzbicki, James
Condition: New
Film Music: A History explains the development of film music by considering large-scale aesthetic trends and structural developments alongside socioeconomic, technological, cultural, and philosophical circumstances.The books four large parts are given over to Music and the "Silent" Film (1894--1927), Music and the Early Sound Film (1895--1933), Music in the "Classical-Style" Hollywood Film (1933--1960), and Film Music in the Post-Classic Period (1958--2008). Whereas most treatments of the subject are simply chronicles of "great film scores" and their composers, this book offers a genuine history of film music in terms of societal changes and technological and economic developments within the film industry. Instead of celebrating film-music masterpieces, it deals-logically and thoroughly-with the complex machine whose smooth running allowed those occasional masterpieces to happen and whose periodic adjustments prompted the large-scale twists and turns in film musics path.
- Film History | Music History | Film Sound History
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