Beginning with the earliest experiments in musical accompaniment carried out in the Edison Laboratories, Kathryn Kalinak uses archival material to outline the history of American music and film. Focusing on the scores of several key composers of the sound era, including Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Captain Blood , Max Steiner's The Informer , Bernard Herrmann's The Magnificent Ambersons , and David Raksin's Laura , Kalinak concludes that classical scoring conventions were designed to ensure the dominance of narrative ...
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Beginning with the earliest experiments in musical accompaniment carried out in the Edison Laboratories, Kathryn Kalinak uses archival material to outline the history of American music and film. Focusing on the scores of several key composers of the sound era, including Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Captain Blood , Max Steiner's The Informer , Bernard Herrmann's The Magnificent Ambersons , and David Raksin's Laura , Kalinak concludes that classical scoring conventions were designed to ensure the dominance of narrative exposition. Her analyses of contemporary work such as John Williams' The Empire Strikes Back and Basil Poledouris' RoboCop demonstrate how the traditions of the classical era continue to influence scoring practices today.
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Reader copy. Ex-library hardback without dust jacket covered in plastic, some shelf wear to edges of cloth boards, corners bumped, usual library stamps/markings, otherwise good, clear text, binding fine, published 1992 by The University of Wisconsin Press, 248pp, isbn0299133605, ready for immediate despatch from Uk. 2E*
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 500grams, ISBN: 9780299133641.
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