History of Film Music (9781316261330) by Cooke, Mervyn -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents List of illustrations Preface and acknowledgements 1 The ‘silent’ cinema

Why sound? Why music? The birth of film music Categories of film music Camille Saint-Saens and film d’art Cue sheets and anthologies Venues and ensembles Photoplayers and cinema organs Music for silent epics Charlie Chaplin and music for comedies Early film music in Europe and the Soviet Union Postlude: the silent-film revival

2 Sound on track

A sound debate New technology Photographing sound Animated sound Creative possibilities

3 Hollywood’s Golden Age: narrative cinema and the classical film score

The studio system Practicalities Style Wagner and the filmic leitmotif Structure Max Steiner Erich Wolfgang Korngold FranzWaxman: horror and sophistication Alfred Newman Miklos Rozsa, Roy Webb and David Raksin: film noir and the music of psychological drama Dimitri Tiomkin and Aaron Copland and the sounds of America

4 Stage and screen

Opera on film Film in opera; opera in film The film musical Scoring Shakespeare

5 The mainstream divides: post-war horizons in Hollywood

The epic and the intimate Modernism Bernard Herrmann: the composer as auteur Jazz and its influence

6 ‘Never let it be mediocre’: film music in the United Kingdom

Visitors from abroad Ralph Vaughan Williams Brian Easdale, William Alwyn and Benjamin Frankel William Walton and Malcolm Arnold Generic (re)takes: horror and comedy End of an era

7 Defectors to television

THE DOCUMENTARY FILM

Hanns Eisler Documentaries in the United States Information films in the United Kingdom The movies at war: reportage and propaganda Theatrical documentaries for the modern age

ANIMATION

Cartoon music in the silent era Walt Disney and the animated musical Warner Bros. and MGM: comic shorts Classical music Migration to the small screen Experimental animation Animation in Europe

8 Film music in France

Symphony and song The 1930s: Maurice Jaubert and Joseph Kosma Georges Auric and others Nouvelle vague Jean-Luc Godard Francois Truffaut French modernism At home and abroad Poles apart: Krzysztof Kielowski and Zbigniew Preisner

9 Global highlights

EARLY SOUND FILMS IN THE SOVIET UNION

Dmitri Shostakovich Vsevolod Pudovkin and Yuri Shaporin Sergei Eisenstein and Sergei Prokofiev

INDIA: BOLLYWOOD AND BEYOND

Early Indian cinema Successes abroad: Ravi Shankar and Satyajit Ray Modern commercial cinema

FROM ITALY TO LITTLE ITALY

Federico Fellini, Nino Rota and the circus of life Ennio Morricone and the spaghetti western: eccentricity and populism Italians abroad

JAPAN

Traditional elements in silent and early sound films The films of Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa Tōru Takemitsu Modern composers, modern genres

10 Popular music in the cinema

Music of youth and race Title songs and interpolated songs Compilation scores and original song scores Synergistic marketing Pop (stars) in performance

11 Classical music in the cinema

Romantic concerto and war film Classical biopics and milieu films Period, nationality, class Stanley Kubrick Back to Bach

12 State of the art: film music since the New Hollywood

John Williams and the new symphonism Electronics, sound technology and recording Pop scoring, dual tracking and the modern soundtrack album Minimalism Modern auteurs: Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino and David Lynch The modern mainstream The global and the glocal

Bibliography Index of film titles General index