Film music
Subtitle: a history
By: James Wierzbicki.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780415991988; 9780415991995
Subjects: Motion picture music -- History and criticism
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Music and the silent film (1894-1927). Origins, 1894-1905 ; The nickelodeon, 1905-1915 ; Feature films, 1915-1927; title: Music and the early sound film (1894-1933). The long advent of sound, 1894-1926 ; Vitaphone and movietone, 1926-1928 ; Early sound films, 1928-1933; title: Music in the classical-style Hollywood film (1933-1960) ; The golden age of film music, 1933-1949 ; Post-war innovations and the strugge for survival, 1949-1958; title: Film music in the post-classic period (1958-2008). A new wave of film music, 1958-1978 ; Eclecticism, 1978-2001 ; Epilogue, 2001-2008.