Film Music: A History
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-99199-5
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 26th November 2008
- Pages: 328
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Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part One: Music and the "Silent" Film (1894–1927)
Chapter 2: Origins, 1894–1905
Chapter 3: The Nickelodeon, 1905–1915
Chapter 4: Feature Films, 1915–1927
Part Two: Music and the Early Sound Film (1894-1933)
Chapter 5: The Long Advent of Sound, 1894-1926
Chapter 6: Vitaphone and Movietone, 1926-8
Chapter 7: Hollywood’s Early Sound Films, 1928-33
Part Three: Music in the "Classic-Style" Hollywood Film (1933-60)
Chapter 8: The "Golden Age" of Film Music, 1933-49
Chapter 9: Postwar Innovations and the Struggle for Survival, 1949-58
Part Four: Film Music in the Post-Classic Period (1958-2008)
Chapter 10: A "New Wave" of Film Music, 1958-78
Chapter 11: Eclecticism, 1978-2001
Chapter 12: Epilogue, 2001-8
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author(s)
James Wierzbicki is a musicologist who teaches at the University of Michigan and serves as executive editor of the American Musicological Society's Music of the United States of America series of scholarly editions. His current research focuses on twentieth-century music in general and film music and electronic music in particular.