Format:
1 Online-Ressource(XII, 213 p. 31 illus.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2020.
ISBN:
9783030335502
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture
Content:
Introduction -- 1. The Aesthetic Conventions of British Film Music -- 2. Pastoral Music -- 3. Folk Song -- 4. Choral Music -- 5. March Music -- Conclusion.
Content:
This book offers a fresh approach to British film music by tracing the influence of Britain’s musical heritage on the film scores of this era. From the celebration of landscape and community encompassed by pastoral music and folk song, and the connection of both with the English Musical Renaissance, to the mystical strains of choral sonorities and the stirring effects of the march, this study explores the significance of music in British film culture. With detailed analyses of the work of such key filmmakers as Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Laurence Olivier and Carol Reed, and composers including Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton and Brian Easdale, this systematic and in-depth study explores the connotations these musical styles impart to the films and considers how each marks them with a particularly British inflection.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030335496
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030335519
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030335526
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783030335496
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783030335519
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783030335526
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-33550-2
