MUS 468 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Max Steiner, Rhett Butler, Closing Credits
Document Summary
Role in modern theater: bayreuth festival theater, numerous innovations. Music and drama: support of drama in music, unity through leitmotifs. Nonlinear plot: flashbacks; flash-forwards, memento/kill bill. Cinematography: equivalent to photography, but pictures move, artistry in framing, lighting, and perspective. Musical frames: opening credits, overtures, closing credits. Music with the narrative: source music (diegetic, underscoring (nondiegetic, soundtrack: not a good term for this class. Some factors in a unified score: consistent mood or timbre, unified style: the graduate, pulp fiction. Leitmotifs: not used in every film, must be a clear association like jaws. Much of the music is borrowed from wagner. Adaptation: taking a fully composed work and adapting it (make it shorter, change instrumentation ) for a film. Based on novel by margaret mitchell: pre-war, war, and reconstruction depicted, woman"s story focus is on scarlett. Spectacular epic produced by selznick: lavish budget, shot in technicolor, movie was major event, record money maker.
