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Informationen zum Autor James Wierzbicki teaches Musicology at the University of Sydney. Nathan Platte teaches Musicology at the University of Iowa. Colin Roust teaches Music History at Roosevelt University's Chicago College of the Performing Arts. Klappentext The Routledge Film Music Source Book is an annotated, thematically organized collection of approximately eighty source readings pertaining to film music dating from its beginnings to the present, from the US and other select countries around the globe. The documents represent a wide variety of music-related issues that were heatedly debated during cinema's early decades and which by and large remain of concern today.Each document is prefaced by a brief introduction that gives details on both the author and the particular issue at hand. Also, each group of documents is prefaced by a longer introduction that puts into historical context the collective information and opinions that follow. The organizational scheme is at the same time chronological and thematic in a pattern that alternates between aestehetic and practical considerations. Zusammenfassung The Routledge Film Music Source Book is an annotated! thematically organized collection of approximately eighty source readings pertaining to film music dating from its beginnings to the present! from the US and other select countries around the globe. The documents represent a wide variety of music-related issues that were heatedly debated during cinema's early decades and which by and large remain of concern today.Each document is prefaced by a brief introduction that gives details on both the author and the particular issue at hand. Also! each group of documents is prefaced by a longer introduction that puts into historical context the collective information and opinions that follow. The organizational scheme is at the same time chronological and thematic in a pattern that alternates between aestehetic and practical considerations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: “Silent” Film 1. Early Approaches to Film Accompaniment 1.1 Music for the Picture Clarence E. Sinn 1.2 Playing the Pictures Clyde Martin 1.3 Jackass Music Lou Reeves Harrison 2. Dreams of the Future 2.1 Music for the Movies Carl Van Vechten 2.2 The Surveys of Le Film: Music and the Cinema 3. Practical Advice in the Heyday of the Silent Film 3.1 Musical Accompaniment to the Feature Picture Erno Rapee 3.2 Scoring a Motion Picture Victor Wagner 3.3 The Artistic Feature Film and Music: Its Genres Hans Erdmann Part II: Early Sound Film 4. Transitional Concerns 4.1 Music and the Cinema Edwin Evans 4.2 About the Music to New Babylon Dmitry Shostakovich 4.3 Experimenting with Sound Films Darius Milhaud 5. Accounts of the Sound Film’s Early Years 5.1 Musical Picture Quietly Undergoes Renaissance Philip K. Scheurer 5.2 Musical Pictures Are Here Again Helen Louise Walker 5.3 Film Experiences Its Sanest Development Edwin Schaller 6. Debates on the Future of Music in Sound Films 6.1 A Little about Movie Music Virgil Thomson 6.2 Music and the Synchronized Film Clarence Raybould 6.3 Musical Surprises Azary Azarin 6.4 The Experience of the Composer Nikolai Krykov Part III: Music in the Classical-Style Film 7. Practical Advice as Film Music’s “Classical Style” Takes Shape 7.1 Film Music Arthur Benjamin 7.2 On the Hollywood Front George Antheil 7.3 History of Motion Picture Music Franz Waxman 7.4 Memoranda David O. Selznick 8. Aesthetic Squabbles 8.1 Music and Cinema: An Impossible Marriage Gianandrea Gavazzeni 8.2 Music and Cinema: A Difficult Marriage Fedele d’Amico 8.3 Music and the Screen Erich Le...
