MUS-0035 Lecture Notes - Diegesis, Gesamtkunstwerk, Didacticism
Document Summary
Diegetic: music is part of the fictional world of the story. Commonly used to think about music and sound. Similar to neumeyer"s source music : unless can be traced to particular source. First academic to say people weren"t taking music film theory seriously. Work has become influential in film theory and musicology. Reacting against a whole history of people who would discredit film music because it was subordinate to the image: they claimed it can"t be as good as music that exists for it"s own sake. Her point is that the music of film is doing a particular job: if it"s not fully heard, it"s doing work the viewers don"t even notice. Dealing with particular kind of aesthetic classic hollywood films: big, studio productions: retroactively defining set of terms (composers weren"t composing with this in mind) Non-diegetic symphonic underscoring rather than popular music styles in diegetic.
