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Film music is really as old as movie theater itself. Years before synchronized sound became typical, projected moving images were shown to musical accompaniment, whether performed by way of a lone piano player or a hundred-piece orchestra. Today film music has become its own industry, indispensable to the marketability of videos throughout the world. Film Music: AN EXTREMELY Short Release is a concise, lucid, and carefully engaging overview written by one of the leading government bodies on the subject. After starting with a fascinating research of the music from a key collection in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, Kathryn Kalinak introduces listeners not only to important composers and musical styles but also to modern theoretical concepts about how and why film music works. Through the entire book she embraces a global perspective, analyzing film music in Asia and the center East as well as in European countries and the United States. Key collaborations between directors and composers - Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, Akira Kurosawa and Fumio Hayasaka, Federico Fellini and Nino Rota, to name just a few - come under scrutiny, as do the oft-neglected methods of the silent film period. She also explores differences between original film results and compilation soundtracks that cull music from preexisting sources. As Kalinak points out, film music can do a lot of things, from establishing mood and setting to clarifying storyline things and creating thoughts that are just dimly came to the realization in the images. This book illuminates the countless ways it accomplishes those duties and can have its listeners pondering a bit deeper and critically the next time they sit in a darkened cinema and music all of the sudden swells as the action unfolds onscreen.
