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.
Edited by:
Frank Lehman
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 553g
ISBN: 9780367430764
ISBN 10: 0367430762
Series: Routledge Music and Screen Media Series
Pages: 286
Publication Date: 01 July 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword Introduction: Film and Music, Theory and Analysis Frank Lehman 1. Timbre in Film Music – Making Magic through Tone Color Chelsea Oden 2. “The Click Is Your Friend”: Film Scores and Tempo Analysis Rebecca M. Doran Eaton 3. Tracking Progressions of Heroic Chord Progressions in Recent Popular Screen Media Scott Murphy 4. John Williams’ Star Wars Themes: Good vs. Evil Conflicts as a Structural Principal for Leitmotifs Mark Richards 5. Topic Theory and Film: Coming of Age in 1994’s and 2019’s Little Women Janet Bourne 6. A Matter of Time: Reality and Fantasy through Metrical Analysis in Contemporary Hollywood Film Andrew S. Powell 7. Film Music and Dialogic Form Charity Lofthouse 8. Tonal Analysis of the Integrated Soundtrack: Music, Sound, and Dialogue in Baby Driver Táhirih Motazedian 9. Analyzing Musical Metamorphoses: Thematic Transformation in Shirley Walker's Batman Frank Lehman 10. Post-Tonal Theory and Hollywood Scores: Three Analytical Vignettes Erik Heine 11. Attuning Serialism: David Shire’s Scores for The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, 2010: The Year We Made Contact, and Zodiac Juan Chattah 12. Romance and the Two Poles of Underscore James Buhler Notes on Contributors Index
Frank Lehman is Associate Professor of Music at Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA.
