Film Music : A Very Short Introduction
by Kalinak, Kathryn Marie
Edition statement:1st Published by : Oxford University Press (New York) Physical details: xv, 143 Pages 17X11 cm | PB ISBN:9780195370874.| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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General Stacks | Non-fiction | 781.542 K141F 2010 (Browse shelf) | Available | 64953 |
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Film music is as old as cinema itself. Years before synchronized sound became the norm, projected moving images were shown to musical accompaniment, whether performed by a lone piano player or a hundred-piece orchestra. Today film music has become its own industry, indispensable to the marketability of movies around the world. Film Music: A Very Short Introduction is a compact, lucid, and thoroughly engaging overview written by one of the leading authorities on the subject. After opening with a fascinating analysis of the music from a key sequence in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, Kathryn.
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