Screen LibraryMeaning and interpretation of music in cinema /
By exploring the relationship between music and the moving image in film narrative, David Neumeyer shows that film music is not conceptually separate from sound or dialogue, but that all three are manipulated and continually interact in the larger acoustical world of the sound track. In a medium whe...
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Indiana University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Bloomington : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Musical meaning and interpretation. |
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By exploring the relationship between music and the moving image in film narrative, David Neumeyer shows that film music is not conceptually separate from sound or dialogue, but that all three are manipulated and continually interact in the larger acoustical world of the sound track. In a medium where the image has traditionally trumped sound, Neumeyer turns our attention to the voice as the mechanism through which narrative (dialog, speech) and sound (sound effects, music) come together. Complemented by music examples, illustrations, and contributions by James Buhler, Meaning and Interpretation of Music in Cinema is the capstone of Neumeyer's 25-year project in the analysis and interpretation of music in film. -- from back cover. |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 317 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-304) and index. |
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9780253016423 0253016428 9780253016492 0253016495 0253016517 9780253016515 |
| Index Number: | ML2075 |
| CLC: | J605 |
| Call Number: | J605/N493 |
| Contents: | Meaning and interpretation. Music in the vococentric cinema; Tools for analysis and interpretation -- Music in the mix : Casablanca . Acoustic stylization : the film's sound world ; Music and utopia : a reading of the reunion scene -- The reunion scene's contexts -- Topics and tropes : two preludes by Bach. Performers onscreen ; Underscore : four studies of the C major prelude. |