Dramatic Notes: Foregrounding Music in the Dramatic Experience - Softcover

Brand, Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1860205488 ISBN 13: 9781860205484

Publisher: University of Luton Press, 2005

Synopsis

"Dramatic Notes" is a layman's guide to the way composers create music to support drama, whether in the form of film, theatre, opera, radio or TV. Central to the book is a series of interviews with distinguished composers and directors as diverse as Judith Weir, Barrington Pheloung, George Fenton, John Schlesinger and Richard Rodney Bennett. How does music work with drama? What is the mysterious process by which we all recognise and respond to musical emotions and signals without necessarily 'being musical'? Who makes the decisions about the use of music in the media? And how has the twentieth century put music to work with drama as never before?

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About the Author

Neil Brand is a composer and performer whose music includes the BBC Radio 4's new adaptation of War and Peace. He is known internationally as one of the world's leading improvisational and silent film pianists.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Luton Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1860205488
• ISBN 13: 9781860205484
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148