film music thesis

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evidence that film music can influence character likability and the certainty of knowing the character s thoughts, which are antecedents of empathetic concern and emphatic accuracy. Thus film music may be regarded as modulating antecedents of empathic concern and empathic accuracy. Keywords: film music, mass media, character perception, empathy

Sound and Emotion: The Use of Music in the Cinematic Experience

This thesis explores the role that film genre plays in the construction of, predominantly, Hollywood movie scores. ... Film music is shown to be profoundly influenced by film genre, but that the use of generically specific music is as complex and nuanced as cinema's negotiation of genre at narrative level. While genres do indeed have signature ...

The aim of this thesis is to focus on two specific films of contrasting genres and explore how the music and sounds help to establish the genres of the given films, as well as note any commonalities in which the films follow similar aural ... to large live orchestras, the late 1920s ushered in a new era of film music (Miller, 1982). In 1927,

Conor Power. A leitmotif is a representative compositional tool which aids in storytelling. This compositional device was adopted by Richard Wagner in The Ring which premiered in 1876. A century later the leitmotif is used by John Williams in his score for the first film in the Star Wars saga - A New Hope.

Music Commons. This paper examines the use of music as a narrative device to influence an audience's emotions and response in the context of film and visual media as well as its use as a tool to impart psychological transportation and assist the visual narrative. By identifying the contributions of music as a whole, I evaluate and describe ...

This thesis proposes an original method for graphically realising the temporal placement of film music's component parts as they relate to an underlying narrative structure, allowing the music to be discussed at the level of the entire film without abstracting it from its narrative context. ... The Film Music Organisation method introduced in ...

About this book. This book offers an approach to film music in which music and visuals are seen as equal players in the game. The field of Film-Music Studies has been increasingly dominated by musicologists and this book brings the discipline back squarely into the domain of Film Studies. Blending Neoformalism with Gestalt Psychology and ...

Within the context of contemporary Hollywood film music production; this thesis explores the use and application of technology for orchestral composition, orchestral music recording, through to the final delivery and integration of music on the dubbing stage. It also looks at the impact of technology on the entire post-production process and ...

In this dissertation, I explore both what brought about this musical change, and, in particular, the style and genre to which the music has changed. I have named this new category of music Filminimalism, and this thesis provides an extensive textural analysis of the music, as well as the films it accompanies.

Film Music Studies has a problematic history that has separated the analysis of music from the image due to the opposing methodologies of Musicology and Film Studies. This thesis discovers a new way of thinking about film music called the music-image. The music-image is the semiotic ambiguity that interlocks 'music' and 'image' through time ...

This book offers an approach to film music in which music and visuals are seen as equal players in the game. The field of Film-Music Studies has been increasingly dominated by musicologists and this book brings the discipline back squarely into the domain of Film Studies. Blending Neoformalism with Gestalt Psychology and Leonard B. Meyer's musicology, this study treats music as a cinematic ...

Annabel J. Cohen (BA McGill; PhD Queen's University; ARCT Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto) is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Prince Edward Island, editor of Psychomusicology: Music, Mind and Brain, co-editor of the book Psychology of Music and Multimedia (Tan, Cohen, Lipscomb, & Kendall 2013, Oxford University Press) and serves on consulting boards of several other journals.

Music can modulate perceptions, actions, and judgments in everyday situations. The aim of this study was to investigate a potential influence of music on moral judgments in the context of film reception. In the course of an online experiment, 252 participants were assigned to three different experimental conditions (no, positive, or negative ...

Chapter. Oct 2017. Film/Music Analysis. pp.1-13. The academic study of film music was launched by film scholars in the late 1980s and early 1990s—Gorbman, Kalinak, Flinn. In the last fifteen ...

This thesis documents the investigation and development of a new method of composing film music with a flexible structure, which more easily facilitates the mapping and redrafting of music during the film editing process. Frequent editing changes to visual materials are an unavoidable part of filmmaking.

Abstract. This Commentary contextualises and places within a critical framework, three books on Film Music written by myself. (1) The books, written between 2013 and 2015, are targeted toward students of film music and professional practitioners. This Commentary has given me the opportunity to address a variety of relevant scholarship, which ...

The films by Tim Burton featuring music by Danny Elfman have not been researched in detail, more specifically, they have not been researched in combination with horror film music. In this thesis I want to add to the theoretical framework that exists about horror film music, by analysing two films, applying the existing theoretical framework.

See more This thesis gives a cultural and philosophical account of the meaning of music through the analysis of romantic film music as it underscores dramatic, narrative film. The argument is furnished by thinkers and poets of the Romantic revolution in thought, language and sensibility that took place at the end of the eighteenth century and ...

This thesis examines the depictions of non-Western musical cultures in the following Disney films: Aladdin (1992), The Lion King (1994), and Mulan (1998). Since these films are targeted at children, they need to be investigated in terms of what messages they communicate and how these messages are perceived by young audiences. This research ...

In short, the bridging of gaps is the central theme of my thesis. Firstly, both solidarity and trans-diegesis can be considered to bridge gaps. But more importantly, I wanted to show how the gap between politics and film music can be bridged. Much can and should still be done to better understand this gap and its bridges - I certainly look ...

Theses/Dissertations from 2022. PDF. Social Music Interactions and Vocal Music Improvisations in a Serve and Return Music Community, Kathleen Kaye Arrasmith. PDF. Comfort Food for the Ears: Exploring Nostalgic Trends in Popular Music of the Twenty-First Century, April K. Balay. PDF.