1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990000244600203316

Autore

Forest, Etienne

Titolo

Beam Dynamics : a new attitude and framework / Etienne Forest, Ernest Orlando Lawrence

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Australia [etc.] : Harwood Academic Publishers, copyr. 1998

ISBN

90-5702-574-4

Descrizione fisica

XXX, 463 p. : ill. ; 23 cm (The physics and technology of particle and photon Beams ; 8)

Disciplina

53973

Collocazione

539.73 FOR

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911001469503321

Autore

Ludwig Alex

Titolo

Hearing Death at the Movies : Film Music and the Long History of the Dies Irae / / by Alex Ludwig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025

ISBN

3-031-78795-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXVI, 239 p. 133 illus.)

Collana

Literature, Cultural and Media Studies

Disciplina

780

Soggetti

Music

Motion pictures

Film Studies

Classical Music

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction: The “Other” in Horror; the Dies Irae as “Other” -- Part I: History -- Chapter 2: Making of a Musical Meme: Wendy Carlos & Stanley Kubrick -- Chapter 3: Tracing Film Music’s Most Ubiquitous Melody: Silent Films, Dimitri Tiomkin, and Vampires -- Part II: Theory -- Chapter 4: The Many Guises of Dies Irae: “Prelude to Evil,” “Ominous Echo,” and “Tension Engine” -- Chapter 5: “It Seems to Belong to Civilization”: The Dies Irae in Italy, Camp Crystal Lake, and a Galaxy -- Chapter 6: Afterword: The Ghost Light.

Sommario/riassunto

The Dies Irae is a melody that composers of film music have employed in hundreds of films, ranging from Metropolis to The Shining, and Star Wars. It is a product of more than 800 years of musical transformation, finding purchase in a variety of musical environments, including the church, the concert hall, and the cinema. Based on a corpus of nearly 300 films, Hearing Death At the Movies models two new ways of thinking about the Dies Irae. First, it identifies three different versions of the melody, each of which signifies a different function of film music. Second, it traces the semantic shift of the Dies Irae from its religious roots to its secular perception as a symbol of death. This study of the most widely-used theme in film music history will change how you listen to movies. Alex Ludwig is Associate Professor of Music at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. .