A History of Film Music provides a comprehensive and lively introduction to the major trends in film scoring from the silent era to the present day, focusing not only on dominant Hollywood practices but also offering an international perspective by including case-studies of the national cinemas of the United Kingdom, France, India, Italy, Japan and the early Soviet Union. The book balances wide-ranging overviews of film genres, modes of production and critical reception with detailed non-technical descriptions of the interaction between image track and soundtrack in representative individual films. In addition to the central focus on narrative cinema, separate sections are devoted to music in documentary and animated films, film musicals and other genres related to theatrical traditions, as well as the uses of popular and classical music in the cinema. The author analyses the varying technological and aesthetic issues that have shaped the history of film music, and concludes with an account of the modern film composer's working practices. mervyn co oke is Professor of Music at the University of Nottingham. His books include studies of Britten's Billy Budd and War Requiem, Britten and the Far East, Jazz and The Chronicle of Jazz, and he has edited The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera, The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten and, with David Horn, The Cambridge Companion to Jazz. He is the author of the article on film music in the New Grove Dictionary of Music, and is also active as a pianist and composer.
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