Overtones and undertones : reading film music / Royal S. Brown.
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TextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1994]Copyright date: ©1994Description: x, 396 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780520085442 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Motion picture music -- History and criticism | Music | MusicDDC classification: 781.5'42'09 Summary: Since the days of silent films, music has been integral to the cinematic experience, serving, variously, to allay audiences' fears of the dark and to heighten a film's emotional impact. Yet viewers are often unaware of its presence. In this bold, insightful book, film and music scholar and critic Royal S. Brown invites readers not only to "hear" the film score, but to understand it in relation to what they "see." Unlike earlier books, which offered historical, technical and sociopolitical analyses, 'Overtones and Undertones' draws on film, music and narrative theory to provide the first comprehensive aesthetics of film music.
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Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.
Since the days of silent films, music has been integral to the cinematic experience, serving, variously, to allay audiences' fears of the dark and to heighten a film's emotional impact. Yet viewers are often unaware of its presence. In this bold, insightful book, film and music scholar and critic Royal S. Brown invites readers not only to "hear" the film score, but to understand it in relation to what they "see." Unlike earlier books, which offered historical, technical and sociopolitical analyses, 'Overtones and Undertones' draws on film, music and narrative theory to provide the first comprehensive aesthetics of film music.
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