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Film Music: A Very Short Introduction
Kathryn Kalinak
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The rich and deeply moving sounds of film music are as old as cinema itself. Even the very first projected moving images were accompanied by music in many places as a variety of performers - from single piano players to small orchestras - brought images to life through musical accompaniment. Film music has since become its own industry, an aesthetic platform for expressing creative visions and a commercial vehicle for growing musical stars of all varieties. This Very Short Introduction provides a lucid, accessible, and engaging overview of the subject of film music. Beginning with an analysis of ... Read more
The rich and deeply moving sounds of film music are as old as cinema itself. Even the very first projected moving images were accompanied by music in many places as a variety of performers - from single piano players to small orchestras - brought images to life through musical accompaniment. Film music has since become its own industry, an aesthetic platform for expressing creative visions and a commercial vehicle for growing musical stars of all varieties. This Very Short Introduction provides a lucid, accessible, and engaging overview of the subject of film music. Beginning with an analysis of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
Very Short Introductions
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195370874
SKU
V9780195370874
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About Kathryn Kalinak
Professor, Department of English and Film Studies and Director of the Film Studies Program, Rhode Island College, and author, How the West was Sung: Music in the Westerns of John Ford, (California, 2007) and Settling the Score: Music and the Classical Hollywood Film (Wisconsin, 1992)
Reviews for Film Music: A Very Short Introduction
Kathryn Kalinak has emerged as one of the freshest and most authoritative commentatory on film music of her generation.
Michael Quinn, Classical Music
Both an admirable thumbnail portrait of the history of film music and an impressive precis of key issues
Michael Quinn, Classical Music
You won't find a better primer than this pocket-size one...Her scope ... Read more
Michael Quinn, Classical Music
Both an admirable thumbnail portrait of the history of film music and an impressive precis of key issues
Michael Quinn, Classical Music
You won't find a better primer than this pocket-size one...Her scope ... Read more