The art of film music : special emphasis on Hugo Friedhofer, Alex North, David Raksin, Leonard Rosenman / George Burt.
Music is a key element in narrative cinema. The film score offers important clues about characters and situations and gives the illusion of continuity to otherwise disparate images. The Art of Film Music draws on conversations with Hollywood's leading composers as well as author George Burt...
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Boston :
Northeastern University Press,
[1994]
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. The Story's the Thing. Music's Vital Role. Should Film Music Be Heard? The Contrapuntal Aspect. The Associative Power of Music
- Ch. 2. Characterization. Individual People. Groups of People. Symbolic Meanings. The Emotional Context. Ambient Time and Place. Source of Music
- Ch. 3. Emphasizing the Dramatic Line. Musical Accents. The Missing Beat or Pulse. Pacing
- Ch. 4. The Sequence as a Unit. The Best Years of Our Lives: Homecoming Scene. Laura: Apartment Scene. East of Eden: Climactic Scene
- Ch. 5. The Sound and Function of Silence: When Music Is Absent. Matter-of-Fact Dialogue. Psychological Containment. Acoustic Space. Moments of Anguish. The Telling Quality of Ambient Sound. The Question of Realism
- Ch. 6. Practical Matters and the Human Element. The Spotting Process. Timings. Synchronization. Generalized Compositional Approaches. Orchestration and the Orchestra. The Synthesizer. Music Mix and Dubbing.