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Author Wierzbicki, James Eugene.

Title Film music : a history / James Wierzbicki.

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 312 pages) : illustrations
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Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-294) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Music and the "silent" film (1894-1927). Origins, 1894-1905 ; The nickelodeon, 1905-1915 ; Feature films, 1915-1927 -- Music and the early sound film (1894-1933). The long advent of sound, 1894-1926 ; Vitaphone and movietone, 1926-8 ; Hollywood's early sound films, 1928-33 -- Music in the "classical-style" Hollywood film (1933-60) ; The "golden age" of film music, 1933-49 ; Postwar innovations and the strugge for survival, 1949-58 -- Film music in the post-classic period (1958-2008). A "new wave" of film music, 1958-1978 ; Eclecticism, 1978-2001 ; Epilogue, 2001-8.
Summary "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 (1894-1933), 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."--Jacket.
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Subject Motion picture music -- History and criticism.
Motion picture music.
Multinational.
Chronological Term Geschichte (1894-2008)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Wierzbicki, James Eugene. Film music. New York : Routledge, 2009 9780415991988 0415991986 (DLC) 2008027811 (OCoLC)223810763
ISBN 9780203884478 (electronic book)
0203884477 (electronic book)
0415991986 (Cloth)
9780415991988
9780415991995
0415991994
Standard No. 9786611901004
2849366