Film Music: A History Contributor(s): Wierzbicki, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415991986 ISBN-13: 9780415991988 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2008 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Music | Instruction & Study - Theory - Music | History & Criticism - General |
Dewey: 781.542 |
LCCN: 2008027811 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 7" W x 10" (1.65 lbs) 332 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 book's 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 music's path. |