Film Music in Concert - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Film Music in Concert write by Emilio Audissino. This book was released on 2021-12-16. Film Music in Concert available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Boston Pops Orchestra was the first orchestra of its kind in the USA: founded in 1885 from the ranks of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, its remit was to offer concerts of light symphonic music. Over the years, and in particular during the fifty-year tenure of its most famous conductor, Arthur Fiedler, the Pops established itself as the premier US orchestra specialising in bridging the fields of 'art music' and 'popular music'. When the Hollywood composer John Williams was assigned the conductorship of the orchestra in 1980, he energetically advocated for the inclusion of film-music repertoire, changing Fiedler's approach significantly. This Element offers a historical survey of the pioneering agency that the Boston Pops had under Williams's tenure in the legitimisation of film music as a viable repertoire for concert programmes. The case study is complemented with more general discussions on the aesthetic of film music in concert.
Film in Concert
Film in Concert - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Film in Concert write by Sebastian Stoppe. This book was released on 2014. Film in Concert available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
John Williams
John Williams - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John Williams write by Emilio Audissino. This book was released on 2018. John Williams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An interdisciplinary exploration of the many facets of the composer John Williams's output, aimed at showing the range of his production (not merely focussing on film music) and at analyzing the depth of his dramaturgic and compositional skills with selected case studies.
John Williams's Film Music
John Williams's Film Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John Williams's Film Music write by Emilio Audissino. This book was released on 2014-06-12. John Williams's Film Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John Williams is one of the most renowned film composers in history. He has penned unforgettable scores for Star Wars, the Indiana Jones series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Superman, and countless other films. Fans flock to his many concerts, and with forty-nine Academy Award nominations as of 2014, he is the second-most Oscar-nominated person after Walt Disney. Yet despite such critical acclaim and prestige, this is the first book in English on Williams’s work and career. Combining accessible writing with thorough scholarship, and rigorous historical accounts with insightful readings, John Williams’s Film Music explores why Williams is so important to the history of film music. Beginning with an overview of music from Hollywood’s Golden Age (1933–58), Emilio Audissino traces the turning points of Williams’s career and articulates how he revived the classical Hollywood musical style. This book charts each landmark of this musical restoration, with special attention to the scores for Jaws and Star Wars, Williams’s work as conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, and a full film/music analysis of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The result is a precise, enlightening definition of Williams’s “neoclassicism” and a grounded demonstration of his lasting importance, for both his compositions and his historical role in restoring part of the Hollywood tradition. Best Special Interest Books, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Reviewers
Music, Performance, and the Realities of Film
Music, Performance, and the Realities of Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music, Performance, and the Realities of Film write by Ben Winters. This book was released on 2014-02-05. Music, Performance, and the Realities of Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the relationship between narrative film and reality, as seen through the lens of on-screen classical concert performance. By investigating these scenes, wherein the performance of music is foregrounded in the narrative, Winters uncovers how concert performance reflexively articulates music's importance to the ontology of film. The book asserts that narrative film of a variety of aesthetic approaches and traditions is no mere copy of everyday reality, but constitutes its own filmic reality, and that the music heard in a film's underscore plays an important role in distinguishing film reality from the everyday. As a result, concert scenes are examined as sites for provocative interactions between these two realities, in which real-world musicians appear in fictional narratives, and an audience’s suspension of disbelief is problematised. In blurring the musical experiences of onscreen observers and participants, these concert scenes also allegorize music’s role in creating a shared subjectivity between film audience and character, and prompt Winters to propose a radically new vision of music’s role in narrative cinema wherein musical underscore becomes part of a shared audio-visual space that may be just as accessible to the characters as the music they encounter in scenes of concert performance.
