This article examines some of the issues inherent in the film music archive type, in particular those that the author was able to visit in Italy during his research activity. He describes the ...peculiarities of such archives and the diversity of materials they contain, highlighting the attitude that a researcher must adopt when studying film music and disseminating it correctly, as well as the precautions a performer must take when accompanying a silent film. The article also contains some proposals to create a network of film music archives, in order to facilitate the work of reconstructing the complex links between those materials that later become part of a soundtrack, such as scores, sound recordings, notes, and film scripts.
Previous studies have explored the impact of music on emotional visual material and examined the impact of the placement of music on neutral film scenes, but there has not been any link between these ...two topics so far. In our study, a horror film scene extracted from the Spanish film REC with several shock moments was presented to participants (N = 39) who are divided into three groups. The scene was underscored with specially composed horror film music that had either congruent shock moments (synchronous condition) or preponed shock moments (asynchronous condition). For the third group, there was no musical background (control group), but the same sound design and same dialogues. As physiological data we use skin conductance and heart rate, but only the skin conductance reached significant values for differences between the groups. The results show that there was an additional effect of the music even though there is already a strong emotional statement of the visual material. Furthermore, our findings suggest that the placement of music prior to the shock moment can lead to the stress level increasing earlier than in the other conditions.
This open access collection deals with musical moments in film as one of the most pivotal and compelling issues of current film music research. Musical moments as defined by Amy Herzog occur when a ...musical number inverts the normal relationship between the image track and the soundtrack in a film in such a way that what we see is determined by what we hear. As one potential approach, this definition provokes a variety of perspectives to investigate the disruptive potential of these moments and numbers as a creative device in the production of audiovisual narratives.
Dieser Open Access Sammelband behandelt musikalische Momente im Film als zentrales und wegweisendes Thema aktueller Filmmusikforschung. Musikalische Momente wie von Amy Herzog (2009) definiert, treten dann auf, wenn die konventionelle Beziehung im Film zwischen Bild und Ton umgekehrt wird, so dass das was wir sehen von dem was wir hören bestimmt wird. Diese Definition ermöglicht neue Ansätze um besonders das disruptive Potential dieser musikalischen Momente und Nummern als kreatives Mittel der Produktion audiovisueller Erzählungen zu untersuchen.
Tunes for 'toons Goldmark, Daniel; Goldmark, Daniel
2005., 20050910, 2005, 2005-10-10
eBook
In the first in-depth examination of music written for Hollywood animated cartoons of the 1930s through the 1950s, Daniel Goldmark provides a brilliant account of the enormous creative effort that ...went into setting cartoons to music and shows how this effort shaped the characters and stories that have become embedded in American culture. Focusing on classical music, opera, and jazz, Goldmark considers the genre and compositional style of cartoons produced by major Hollywood animation studios, including Warner Bros., MGM, Lantz, and the Fleischers. Tunes for 'Toons discusses several well-known cartoons in detail, including What's Opera, Doc?, the 1957 Warner Bros. parody of Wagner and opera that is one of the most popular cartoons ever created.
In this video essay, I establish, discuss, and illustrate different types of Disney screencerts—events where the performance of music on stage is accompanied by the projection of the associated ...audiovisual on screen. Focusing on the audience experience, I use concepts from intermedial and multimodal studies to illustrate the experiential difference in each of the different forms of Disney screencerts—Film-with-Live-Orchestra Concert; Film-with-Live-Theatre-and-Orchestra Concert; Excerpt/Montage-with-Live-Orchestra Concert; and Shorts-with-Live-Orchestra concert. In the 100th anniversary of Disney, the event that truly celebrated the innovative spirit of Disney was not the one literary titled “Disney 100: The Concert” but the one titled “Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl”, which is a Film-with-Live-Theatre-and-Orchestra concert—a super-hybrid screencert form in which only Disney films have been presented so far.
The so-called “cinepanettone” has been one of the most typical genres of Italian popular cinema since 1983. Compiled soundtracks made up of the latest pop hits and commercial house music are ...unquestionably among the most prominent conventions defining such movies. The goal of the article is to examine how such music became typically associated with the “cinepanettone”, in relation with the wider context of popular music and media in 1980s and 1990s Italy; and (following O’Leary’s suggestions) to discuss the “phenomenology” of such repertoire, in order to criticize the notion of “cinepanettoni” music as the quintessential “bad music”.
Predicting consumer behavior with Web search Goel, Sharad; Hofman, Jake M.; Lahaie, Sébastien ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS,
10/2010, Letnik:
107, Številka:
41
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Recent work has demonstrated that Web search volume can "predict the present," meaning that it can be used to accurately track outcomes such as unemployment levels, auto and home sales, and disease ...prevalence in near real time. Here we show that what consumers are searching for online can also predict their collective future behavior days or even weeks in advance. Specifically we use search query volume to forecast the opening weekend box-office revenue for feature films, first-month sales of video games, and the rank of songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, finding in all cases that search counts are highly predictive of future outcomes. We also find that search counts generally boost the performance of baseline models fit on other publicly available data, where the boost varies from modest to dramatic, depending on the application in question. Finally, we reexamine previous work on tracking flu trends and show that, perhaps surprisingly, the utility of search data relative to a simple autoregressive model is modest. We conclude that in the absence of other data sources, or where small improvements in predictive performance are material, search queries provide a useful guide to the near future.
Film 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.
A complete index is included in each volume.
Preface Acknowledgements I. Film Music Research: Overviews and Resources II. Histories and Other Surveys III. Theory and Criticism IV. Film Genre V. Case Studies of Individual Films Notes on the Indexes Names Index Film Titles Index
Jonathan Rhodes Lee is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the director of the Arnold Shaw Popular Music Research Center.
Film 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.
Tras su establecimiento, el cine compitió en España con otras formas de entretenimiento popular, como el teatro musical y las variedades, entre las que destacó el cuplé. Este artículo explora la ...presencia y el significado de las cupletistas en las películas mudas. Examina la relación entre la actuación cinematográfica y la música, el uso del cuerpo sexualizado de las artistas y la dimensión performativa de los cuplés en relación con la narrativa cinematográfica.
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