Film Music Analysis: Studying the Score (Routledge Music and Screen Media Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367430770 ISBN 13: 9780367430771

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

Since the establishment of film music studies, there has been a steady growth of serious analytical work on the film music repertoire. Film Music Analysis: Studying the Score offers the first collection of essays dedicated to the close investigation of musical structure and meaning in film music. Showcasing scholarship from a diverse and distinguished group of music theorists and musicologists, this book presents the many ways to inspect the inner workings of film music in a manner that is exciting and accessible to anyone curious about this music, regardless of their background in film or music theory.

Each chapter takes as its focus one music-theoretical parameter and explores how that concept can be used to analyze and interpret film music. Covering theoretical concepts that range from familiar categories such as leitmotif and pitch structure to more cutting-edge ideas such as timbral associativity, topic theory, and metrical states, the book provides a toolkit with which to explore this captivatingly varied repertoire. With example analyses drawn from classic and contemporary films, Film Music Analysis: Studying the Score is a valuable teaching tool and an indispensable addition to the library of any lover of film and music.

About this title

About the Author

Frank Lehman is Associate Professor of Music at Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367430770
• ISBN 13: 9780367430771
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Lehman Frank