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The Cambridge Companion to Film Music (Cambridge Companions to Music)
Edited By Mervyn Coo
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Description for The Cambridge Companion to Film Music (Cambridge Companions to Music)
Paperback. A stimulating and unusually wide-ranging collection of essays overviewing ways in which music functions in film soundtracks. Editor(s): Cooke, Mervyn; Ford, Fiona. Series: Cambridge Companions to Music. Num Pages: 466 pages, 23 b/w illus. 9 tables 26 music examples. BIC Classification: APF; AV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 177 x 329 x 2. Weight in Grams: 866.
This wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection of specially-commissioned essays provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of the many and various ways in which music functions in film soundtracks. Citing examples from a variety of historical periods, genres and film industries - including those of the USA, UK, France, Italy, India and Japan - the book's contributors are all leading scholars and practitioners in the field. They engage, sometimes provocatively, with numerous stimulating aspects of the history, theory and practice of film music in a series of lively discussions which will appeal as much to newcomers to this fascinating subject as to seasoned ... Read more
This wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection of specially-commissioned essays provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of the many and various ways in which music functions in film soundtracks. Citing examples from a variety of historical periods, genres and film industries - including those of the USA, UK, France, Italy, India and Japan - the book's contributors are all leading scholars and practitioners in the field. They engage, sometimes provocatively, with numerous stimulating aspects of the history, theory and practice of film music in a series of lively discussions which will appeal as much to newcomers to this fascinating subject as to seasoned ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Cambridge Companions to Music
Condition
New
Number of Pages
438
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107476493
SKU
V9781107476493
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About Edited By Mervyn Coo
Professor Mervyn Cooke teaches film music, jazz, twentieth-century music and composition at the University of Nottingham. He has edited The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten (Cambridge, 1999), The Cambridge Companion to Jazz (Cambridge, 2002, with David Horn) and The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera (Cambridge, 2005). He has also published A History of Film Music (Cambridge, 2008) and The Hollywood ... Read more
Reviews for The Cambridge Companion to Film Music (Cambridge Companions to Music)
'Going beyond new historical research on early film music, genre studies, and film music analysis, this diverse collection of current essays is ambitious. … Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' M. Goldsmith, CHOICE '… a fine addition to the film music literature. … Particularly successful is the combination of general overviews (historical, technological, theoretical, methodological) with case-study chapters ... Read more