Film Music A History 2008 1st Edition by James Wierzbicki ISBN 978-0415991995 0415991994

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ISBN 10: 0415991994

ISBN 13:  978-0415991995

Author: James Wierzbicki 

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 (1895–1933), 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 history of film music in terms of societal changes and technological and economic developments within the film industry. Instead of celebrating film-music masterpieces, it deals―logically and thoroughly―with the complex ‘machine’ whose smooth running allowed those occasional masterpieces to happen and whose periodic adjustments prompted the large-scale twists and turns in film music’s path.

Table of contents: 

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

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