Ebook: Film music: a history

"Film Music: A History explains the development of film music by considering large-scale aesthetic trends and structural developments alongside socioeconomic, technological, cultural, and philosophical circumstances." "The book's four large parts are given over to Music and the "Silent" Film (1894-1927), Music and the Early Sound Film (1894-1933), Music in the "Classical-Style" Hollywood Film (1933-1960), and Film Music in the Post-Classic Period (1958-2008). Whereas most treatments of the subject are simply chronicles of "great film scores" and their composers, this book offers a genuine history of film music in terms of societal changes and technological and economic developments within the film industry. Instead of celebrating film-music masterpieces, it deals - logically and thoroughly - with the complex "machine" whose smooth running allowed those occasional masterpieces to happen and whose periodic adjustments prompted the large-scale twists and turns in film music's path."--Jacket.;Introduction -- Music and the "silent" film (1894-1927). Origins, 1894-1905 ; The nickelodeon, 1905-1915 ; Feature films, 1915-1927 -- Music and the early sound film (1894-1933). The long advent of sound, 1894-1926 ; Vitaphone and movietone, 1926-8 ; Hollywood's early sound films, 1928-33 -- Music in the "classical-style" Hollywood film (1933-60) ; The "golden age" of film music, 1933-49 ; Postwar innovations and the strugge for survival, 1949-58 -- Film music in the post-classic period (1958-2008). A "new wave" of film music, 1958-1978 ; Eclecticism, 1978-2001 ; Epilogue, 2001-8.