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Seeing Through Music

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Seeing Through Music

By Peter Franklin

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About the book

Hollywood film music is often mocked as a disreputably "applied" branch of the art of composition that lacks both the seriousness and the quality of the classical or late-romantic concert and operatic music from which it derives. Its composers in the 1930s and '40s were themselves often scornful of it and aspired to produce more 'serious' works that would enhance their artistic reputation. In fact the criticism of film music as slavishly descriptive or manipulatively over-emotional has a history...Show more

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9780190246549

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Oxford University Press Inc

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2015

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Seeing Through Music

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