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James Wierzbicki - Film Music: A History - 9780415991995 - V9780415991995
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Film Music: A History

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Description for Film Music: A History Paperback. Num Pages: 332 pages, 18 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: AVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 618.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415991995
SKU
V9780415991995
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About James Wierzbicki
James Wierzbicki is a musicologist who teaches at the University of Michigan and serves as executive editor of the American Musicological Society's Music of the United States of America series of scholarly editions. His current research focuses on twentieth-century music in general and film music and electronic music in particular.

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