Title: Contemporary film music :
Authors: Coleman, Lindsay,; Tillman, Joakim,
Date: 2017
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Physical description: xvi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language: English
LC classification: M
Abstract: The purpose of this book, through its very creation, is to strengthen the dialogue between practitioner and theorist. To that end, a film academic, a composer, and a composer/musicologist have collaborated as editors on this book, which is in turn comprised of interviews with composers alongside complementary chapters that focus on a particular feature of the composer's approach or style, written by a musicologist or film academic who specializes in that particular element of the composer's output. In the interview portions of this book, eight major film composers discuss their work from the early 1980s to the present day. The focus is on the practical considerations of film composition, the relationship each composer has with the moving image, technical considerations, personal motivations in composing, the relationships composers have with their directors, and their own creative processes. Contemporary Film Music also explores the contemporary influence of electronic music, issues surrounding the mixing of soundtracks, music theory, and the evolution of composers' musical voices.
Contents: Introduction / Lindsay Coleman and Joakim Tillman -- A.R. Rahman interview / Lindsay Coleman -- The 'alternate space' of A.R. Rahman's film music / Felicity Wilcox -- Zbigniew Preisner interview / Jonathan Godsall -- Music by Zbigniew Preisner? Fictional composers and compositions in the Kieślowski collaborations / Jonathan Godsall -- Carter Burwell interview / Lindsay Coleman -- Burwell and space: inner, outer, environmental and acoustical / Andrew Waggoner -- Rachel Portman interview / Lindsay Coleman -- Eero Tarasti and the narratological construction of Rachel Portman's Emma / Lindsay Coleman -- Dario Marianelli interview / Lindsay Coleman -- Solo instruments and internal focalization in Dario Marianelli's Pride & prejudice and Atonement / Joakim Tillman -- Mychael Danna interview / Lindsay Coleman -- Mychael Danna: music as metaphor / Peter Golub and Katy Jarzebowski -- John Williams and contemporary film music / Emilio Audissino -- Musical syntax in John Williams's film music themes / Konstantinos Zacharopoulos.
Subject headings (LCSH): Motion picture music--History and criticism.