LEADER 02972nam 22005295 450 001 9911001469503321 005 20250501130220.0 010 $a3-031-78795-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-78795-9 035 $a(CKB)38696495500041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-78795-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32068902 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32068902 035 $a(OCoLC)1518633401 035 $a(EXLCZ)9938696495500041 100 $a20250501d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHearing Death at the Movies $eFilm Music and the Long History of the Dies Irae /$fby Alex Ludwig 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (XXVI, 239 p. 133 illus.) 311 08$a3-031-78794-3 327 $aChapter 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. 330 $aThe 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. . 606 $aMusic 606 $aMotion pictures 606 $aMusic 606 $aFilm Studies 606 $aClassical Music 615 0$aMusic. 615 0$aMotion pictures. 615 14$aMusic. 615 24$aFilm Studies. 615 24$aClassical Music. 676 $a780 700 $aLudwig$b Alex$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01821090 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911001469503321 996 $aHearing Death at the Movies$94384593 997 $aUNINA