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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.

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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: Film Music: A History
• Author: James Wierzbicki
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 332
• EAN: 9780415991995
• ISBN: 0415991994
• ID: 04074341
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 618 g
• Dimensions: 253 × 178 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. November 2008

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