Understanding the Score: Film Music Communicating to and Influencing the Audience

Autor/in	Green, Jessica
Titel	Understanding the Score: Film Music Communicating to and Influencing the Audience
Quelle	In: Journal of Aesthetic Education, 44 (2010) 4, S.81-94 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0021-8510
Schlagwörter	Films; Music; Influences; Cues; Audience Response + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Film; Musik; Influence; Einfluss; Einflussfaktor; Stichwort; Zuschauerverhalten
Abstract	As evidenced by the strong use of musical scores in modern film, film music has come a long way since the initial silent film's piano or organ accompaniment that simply marked general emotions or moods. Though film music has retained its basic functions of reflecting emotions and moods in the images, the film score has progressed into actually shaping the narrative. Film music has the power to suggest connections and themes within the film, to make identifications, to suspend reality, and to create thematic transformations that define character and comment on complex subjects. By establishing specific leitmotifs, themes, and cues within a movie, film music fulfills the more complex role of working in conjunction with the other channels of information (image, speech, noise, and texts) to create meaning. As audiences educate themselves about the conventions of film music, they can better understand how music can rhetorically influence their interpretation of the film and the message that they take from the film. (Contains 31 notes.) (As Provided).
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