Film Music Analysis: Studying the Score

ISBN-13: 9780367430771 / Angielski

Frank Lehman

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Since the establishment of film music studies, there has been a steady growth of serious analytical work on the film music repertoire. Film Music Analysis: Studying the Score offers the first collection of essays dedicated to the close investigation of musical structure and meaning in film music.

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Series Foreword

 

Introduction: Film and Music, Theory and Analysis                        

Frank Lehman

 

Timbre in Film Music – Making Magic through Tone Color           

Chelsea Oden

 

“The Click Is Your Friend”: Film Scores and Tempo Analysis        

Rebecca M. Doran Eaton

 

Tracking Progressions of Heroic Chord Progressions in Recent Popular Screen Media

Scott Murphy

 

John Williams’ Star Wars Themes: Good vs. Evil Conflicts as a Structural Principal for Leitmotifs    

Mark Richards

 

Topic Theory and Film: Coming of Age in 1994’s and 2019’s Little Women

Janet Bourne

 

A Matter of Time: Reality and Fantasy through Metrical Analysis in Contemporary Hollywood Film

Andrew Powell

 

Film Music and Dialogic Form

Charity Lofthouse

 

Tonal Analysis of the Integrated Soundtrack: Music, Sound, and Dialogue in Baby Driver

Táhirih Motazedian

 

Analyzing Musical Metamorphoses: Thematic Transformation in Batman: The Animated Series

Frank Lehman

 

Post-Tonal Theory and Hollywood Scores: Three Analytical Vignettes

Erik Heine

 

Attuning Serialism: David Shire’s Scores for The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, 2010: The Year We Made Contact, and Zodiac

Juan Chattah

 

Romance and the Two Poles of Underscore

James Buhler 

 

Notes on Contributors

 

Index

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Frank Lehman is Associate Professor of Music at Tufts University.