Scoring The President: Myth and Politics in John Williams's<i>JFK</i>and<i>Nixon</i>

Lehman, Frank

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“…Stone himself admits many critics read the scene as "hagiography," while he himself thought of it as generally "neutral," and at most "ironic." 90 Williams is complicit in this side-stepping strategy. Elements in the music suggest that the final cue operates as an extra-narratival bookend, thus garnering a formal "escape clause" from its responsibility to color the main, more tragic action.…”

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Scoring The President: Myth and Politics in John Williams'sJFKandNixon

Lehman¹

2015

J Soc American Mus

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Scoring The President: Myth and Politics in John Williams'sJFKandNixon

Lehman¹

2015

J Soc American Mus

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“…By convention, the origin of this hyperclassical return in Hollywood scoring is traced to the oeuvre of John Williams (Cooke, 2008), the film composer who has attracted the most scholarly attention (e.g., Scheurer, 1997;Schneller, 2013;Lehman, 2015;Zacharopoulos, 2017), famous for scores including Jaws (1975), and the Star Wars (1977 and Indiana Jones (1981-2008 franchises (see Audissino, 2014). Less attention has been paid to the work of James Horner (cf., Cohen, 2014;Lehman, 2012Lehman, , 2013, whose work has also embraced the Romantic tradition of classical Hollywood scores (Lehman, 2018).…”

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Geography and film music: Musicology, gender, and the spatiality of instrumental music

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2021

Trans Inst British Geog

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Analysis of chromatic mediant relationship in film music score with Neo-Riemannian theory

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2022

Rast Müzikoloji Dergisi

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Film has influenced the public as an important cultural form since the 20th century, and film music, as an integral part of film, plays an important role in shaping its content. Film music was influenced by late European Romantic music, and the Hollywood film score system was established based on composers of European descent, followed by the fusion of numerous emerging musical styles, such as Jazz, Rock, and EDM, etc. The orchestral music as the main composition of the film score has a sense of aural expectation in the sound expression, which largely comes from the chromaticization of the harmonies. When analyzing Hollywood film music, it is inevitable that chromatic harmony progression cannot be accurately expressed by traditional tonal music analysis. This study analyzes the chromatic harmony progression of chromatic mediant relationship in the film scores of four composers from the perspective of neo-Riemannian theory. And the correlation between the four sets of transformations and chromatically harmonic progression, H transformation, PL transformation, LP transformation, and RP transformation, is derived from the comparative analysis of neo-Riemannian theory and chromatic mediant relationship. These transformations have deepened the negative emotions of angst and fear or the positive emotions of grandeur and sacredness in film narratives. Exploring and expanding the use of neo-Riemannian theory in film music analysis has positive implications for the development of film music by demonstrating the rationality, accuracy, and intuitiveness of neo-Riemannian theory in the process of film musicology.

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Scoring The President: Myth and Politics in John Williams'sJFKandNixon

Abstract: Throughout his career, John Williams has set the musical tone for the American presidency, most elaborately with his scores for Oliver Stone's controversial films JFK (1991) and Nixon (1995)

Cited by 4 publications

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Scoring The President: Myth and Politics in John Williams'sJFKandNixon

Scoring The President: Myth and Politics in John Williams'sJFKandNixon

Geography and film music: Musicology, gender, and the spatiality of instrumental music

Analysis of chromatic mediant relationship in film music score with Neo-Riemannian theory

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