The Routledge film music sourcebook

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Title:

Author:

Wierzbicki, James Eugene.

ISBN:

9780415888738

9780415888745

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

New York City : Routledge, c2012.

Physical Description:

xv, 389 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

pt. 1. "Silent" film : early approaches to film accompaniment ; dreams of the future ; practical advice in the heyday of the silent film -- pt. 2. Early sound film : transitional concerns ; accounts of the sound film's early years ; debates on the future of music in sound films -- pt. 3. Music in the classical-style film : practical advice as film music's "classical style" takes shape ; aesthetic squabbles -- pt. 4. The postwar years : European vs. American attitudes ; foreign ideas ; stylistic novelties -- pt. 5. Changing times : gloom and doom ; plenty of optimism -- pt. 6. The business of film music : labor pains ; soundtrack albums -- pt. 7. A whole new world : new instruments ; new methods -- pt. 8. Today, tomorrow : fin de siècle ; onward and upward?

Subject Term:

Motion picture music -- History and criticism.

Added Author:

Wierzbicki, James Eugene.

Platte, Nathan.

Roust, Colin.

Added Corporate Author:

Routledge (Firm)

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Summary

The Routledge Film Music Source Book is an annotated, thematically organized collection of approximately eighty source readings pertaining to film music dating from its beginnings to the present, from the US and other select countries around the globe. The documents represent a wide variety of music-related issues that were heatedly debated during cinema's early decades and which by and large remain of concern today.

Each document is prefaced by a brief introduction that gives details on both the author and the particular issue at hand. Also, each group of documents is prefaced by a longer introduction that puts into historical context the collective information and opinions that follow. The organizational scheme is at the same time chronological and thematic in a pattern that alternates between aestehetic and practical considerations.