Contemporary film music : investigating cinema narratives and composition / Lindsay Coleman, Joakim Tillman, editors.
"Contemporary Film Music is an outstanding contribution to the documentation of the profound shifts in film scoring that have occurred in this new century. Thoughtful and provocative essays alternate with fascinating interviews with some of those composers working in this new reality. Highly re...
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures ; Chapter 1: Introduction; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 2: A.R. Rahman Interview; Chapter 3: The 'Alternate Space' of A.R. Rahman's Film Music; Introduction; Comparative Conventions in Indian and Western Film Music; Aspects of Tonality and Extra-Musical Meaning in Indian and Western Music; Roja, 1992 and Bombay, 1995; Fire, 1996; Slumdog Millionaire, 2008 and 127 Hours, 2010; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Internet; Chapter 4: Zbigniew Preisner Interview.
- Chapter 5: Music by Zbigniew Preisner? Fictional Composers and Compositions in the Kieślowski CollaborationsFictional Music in Theory and Practice; Composing Fiction; The Fictional and the Real; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 6: Carter Burwell Interview; Chapter 7: Burwell and Space: Inner, Outer, Environmental and Acoustical; Introduction; The Materials; Motive, Acoustical Space, and Place; Narrative Disconnect to Emotional Synchrony: Motive, Image and Affect; Conclusion: Film as Music; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 8: Rachel Portman Interview.
- Chapter 9: Eero Tarasti and the Narratological Construction of Rachel Portman's EmmaNotes; Bibliography; Chapter 10: Dario Marianelli Interview; Chapter 11: Solo Instruments and Internal Focalization in Dario Marianelli's Pride & Prejudice and Atonement; Pride & Prejudice; Lizzie's Theme; The Secret Life of Daydreams; The Solo Cello in Pride & Prejudice; The Role of the Orchestra; Atonement; 'Elegy for Dunkirk' and the Solo Cello; The Love Theme; Denouement and a Change of Narrative Perspective; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 12: Mychael Danna Interview.
- Chapter 13: Mychael Danna: Music as MetaphorThe Ice Storm; Moneyball; Life of Pi; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 14: John Williams and Contemporary Film Music; A Background of Contemporary Hollywood Music; John Williams and Contemporary Hollywood; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 15: Musical Syntax in John Williams's Film Music Themes; Sentence; Period; Trifold Sentence; Sentence with a Dissolving Third Statement; Unfolding Sentence; Conclusion; Notes; Appendix; Sentence; Sentence with Dissolving Third Statement; Trifold Sentence; Unfolding Sentence; Period; Bibliography; Index.