MUS210: Music in Film
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Encyclopaedias and other Reference Works
- Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new windowContains articles on almost every aspect of western music history, with extensive entries on composers, genres, places, and subjects.
- Music - Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new windowThis source includes brief entries on various people, places, genres, and other subjects similar to Grove Music, BUT also includes curated and up-to-date bibliographies with annotations to help you choose the most helpful materials for your area of study subjects.
- Oxford History of Western Music This link opens in a new windowElectronic access to this 5-volume set includes a volume on "Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries." The author (Richard Taruskin) is provocative and outspoken, challenging traditional interpretations of the music from the 17th and 18th centuries.
- Dissertations & Theses Global Closed Collection This link opens in a new windowDoctoral dissertations provide insight into some of the most recent areas of scholarly research and can be a great place to look for more materials on more recent topics or interpretations.
Encyclopaedias, Handbooks, and other Reference Works - Film & Music
Film Music: a Very Short Introduction by Call Number: ebook, print also available (search title in catalogue)ISBN: 9780195370874Publication Date: 2010-03-11Film Music: A Very Short Introduction introduces readers not only to important composers and musical styles but also to modern theoretical concepts about how and why film music works with a global perspective.
The Oxford Handbook of Film Music Studies by Call Number: ebook, print also available (search title in catalogue)Publication Date: 2013The Oxford Handbook of Film Music Studies charts the interdisciplinary activity around music in visual media, addressing the primary areas of inquiry: history, genre and medium, analysis and criticism, and interpretation.
The Palgrave Handbook of Sound Design and Music in Screen Media by Call Number: ebook, print also available (search title in catalogue)Publication Date: 2016The running theme of the book is the disintegration of boundaries, which permeates discussions about industry, labour, technology, aesthetics and audiovisual spectatorship. This book contains scholarly chapters and interviews with key practitioners that include sound recordists, sound designers, composers, orchestrators and music supervisors who honed their skills on films, TV programmes, video games, commercials and music videos.
The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound by Call Number: ebook, print also available (search title in catalogue)Publication Date: 2017The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of screen music and sound studies, addressing the ways in which music and sound interact with forms of narrative media such as television, videogames, and film. The companion is thematically organized into five cohesive areas of study: Issues in the Study of Screen Music and Sound, Historical Approaches, Production and Process, Cultural and Aesthetic Perspectives, and Analyses and Methodologies.
The Cambridge Companion to Film Music by Call Number: ebook, print also available (search title in catalogue)Publication Date: 2016This wide-ranging essays in this book provide a uniquely comprehensive overview of the many and various ways in which music functions in film soundtracks. Innovative research and fresh interpretative perspectives are offered alongside practice-based accounts of the film composer's distinctive art, with examples cited from genres as contrasting as animation, the screen musical, film noir, Hollywood melodrama, the pop music and jazz film, documentary, period drama, horror, science fiction and the Western.
Film Music in the Sound Era by Call Number: eBook (2 volumes)ISBN: 1000091287Publication Date: 2020Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927-2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical studies, studies of musicians and filmmakers, genre studies, theory and aesthetics, and other key aspects of film music studies. Broad coverage of works from around the globe, paired with robust indexes and thorough cross-referencing, make this research guide an invaluable tool for all scholars and students investigating the intersection of music and film. This guide is published in two volumes: Volume 1: Histories, Theories, and Genres covers overviews, historical surveys, theory and criticism, studies of film genres, and case studies of individual films. Volume 2: People, Cultures, and Contexts covers individual people, social and cultural studies, studies of musical genre, pedagogy, and the industry.
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