Film music : a very short introduction / Kathryn Kalinak.
2010
ML2075 .K33 2010eb
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Title
Film music : a very short introduction / Kathryn Kalinak.
ISBN
9780199707973 (electronic bk.)
0199707979 (electronic bk.)
9780199746040 (electronic bk.)
0199746044 (electronic bk.)
9780195370874
0195370872
0199707979 (electronic bk.)
9780199746040 (electronic bk.)
0199746044 (electronic bk.)
9780195370874
0195370872
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2010.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 143 pages).
Other Standard Identifiers
9786612501012
Call Number
ML2075 .K33 2010eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)550612857
Summary
Film music is as old as cinema itself. Years before synchronized sound became the norm, projected moving images were shown to musical accompaniment, whether performed by a lone piano player or a hundred-piece orchestra. Today film music has become its own industry, indispensable to the marketability of movies around the world. Film Music: A Very Short Introduction is a compact, lucid, and thoroughly engaging overview written by one of the leading authorities on the subject. After opening with a fascinating analysis of the music from a key sequence in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, Kathryn.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
List of illustrations; Preface; 1 What does film music do?; 2 How does film music work?; 3 Why does film music work?; 4 A history of film music I: 1895-1927; 5 A history of film music II: 1927-1960; 6 A history of film music III: 1960-present; 7 Composers and their craft; Conclusion; References; Further reading; Recommended viewing; Index.
Source of Description
Print version record.
Series
Very short introductions.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Kalinak, Kathryn Marie, 1952- Film music. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2010
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