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Autore |
Wierzbicki James Eugene |
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Titolo |
Film music [[electronic resource] ] : a history / / James Wierzbicki |
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New York, : Routledge, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-85143-3 |
1-281-90100-8 |
9786611901004 |
0-203-88447-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (329 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Motion picture music - History and criticism |
Motion pictures and music |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION; Part 1 MUSIC AND THE "SILENT" FILM (1894-1927); 2 ORIGINS, 1894-1905; 3 THE NICKELODEON, 1905-15; 4 FEATURE FILMS, 1915-27; Part 2 MUSIC AND THE EARLY SOUND FILM (1894-1933); 5 THE LONG ADVENT OF SOUND, 1894-1926; 6 VITAPHONE AND MOVIETONE, 1926-8; 7 HOLLYWOOD'S EARLY SOUND FILMS, 1928-33; Part 3 MUSIC IN THE "CLASSICAL-STYLE" HOLLYWOOD FILM (1933-60); 8 THE "GOLDEN AGE" OF FILM MUSIC, 1933-49; 9 POSTWAR INNOVATIONS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL, 1949-58 |
Part 4 FILM MUSIC IN THE POST-CLASSIC PERIOD (1958-2008)10 A "NEW WAVE" OF FILM MUSIC, 1958-78; 11 ECLECTICISM, 1978-2001; 12 EPILOGUE, 2001-8; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Film Music: A History explains the development of film music by considering large-scale aesthetic trends and structural developments alongside socioeconomic, technological, cultural, and philosophical circumstances. The book's four large parts are given over to Music and the ""Silent"" Film (1894?1927), Music and the Early Sound Film (1895? |
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1933), Music in the ""Classical-Style"" Hollywood Film (1933?1960), and Film Music in the Post-Classic Period (1958?2008). Whereas most treatments of the subject are simply chronicles of ""great film scores"" and their composers, this book offers a genuine h |
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