Music and Mythmaking in Film(English, Paperback, Scheurer Timothy E.)

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Music and Mythmaking in Film(English, Paperback, Scheurer Timothy E.) is written by Scheurer Timothy E. and published by McFarland & Co Inc. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0786431903 (ISBN 10) and 9780786431908 (ISBN 13).

This work studies the conventions of music scoring in major film genres (e.g., science fiction, hardboiled detective, horror, historical romance, western), focusing on the artistic and technical methods that modern composers employ to underscore and accompany the visual events. Each chapter begins with an analysis of the major narrative and scoring conventions of a particular genre and concludes with an in-depth analysis of two film examples from different time periods. Several photographic stills and sheet music excerpts are included throughout the work, along with a select bibliography and discography.