Film Music Analysis Essay (800+ words)
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Syllabus-FilmMusic.pdf
Mon, 10/5 Introduction Read the Canvas course site (and all its pages) carefully.
Screening: Youth
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(2015), Paolo Sorrentino -> watch online
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Wed, 10/7 Terminologies Read: Mike Alleyne, "Sound Technology
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", Sound and Music in Film and Media ch1 (p 15-40)
Mon, 10/12 Max Steiner,
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Read: Claudia Gorbman, "Classical Hollywood Practice
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," Unheard Melodies ch 4 (p 70-98)
Screening: King Kong
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(1933), Merian Cooper -> watch online
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Wed, 10/14 Critical Analysis Read: Michel Chion, "The Return of the Sensorial
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," Film, A Sound Art ch 08 (p 117-145)
Mon, 10/19 Miklos Rosza,
Bernard Hermann
Read: Royal S Brown, "Hermann, Hitchcock
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, and the music of the irrational" Cinema Journal 21:2 (1982), 14-49.
Screening: Vertigo
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(1958), Alfred Hitchcock -> watch online
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Wed, 10/21 Science Fiction
Sounds Read: Matthias Konzett, "Sci-Fi Film and Sounds of the Future
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" Sounds of the Future ch 6 (p. 100-115)
Screening: Forbidden Planet
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(1956), Fred Wilcox -> watch online
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Mon, 10/26 Randy Newman,
Franz Waxman Read: Simon Frith, "Mood Music
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", Screen 23:3 (1984), 78-88
Screening: The Talented Mr Ripley
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(1999), Antony Mingella -> watch online
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Wed, 10/28 Close Reading,
Close Listening Read: Kathryn Kalinak, "How does film music work?
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" Film Music ch 2 (9-21)
Mon, 11/02 Dimitri Tiomkin,
Elmer Bernstein Read: Michel Chion, "Silence of the Loudspeakers
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," Film, A Sound Art ch 09 (p 147-161)
Screening: To Kill A Mockingbird
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(1962), Robert Mulligan -> watch online
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Wed, 11/4 MIDTERM Review your notes!
Mon, 11/9 Hollywood
Traditions Read: Anahid Kassabian, "At the Twilight's Last Scoring
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", Hearing Film ch 4 (p 95-116)
Screenings: The Hunt
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for Lethal
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Red Weapons in the Temple
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of October Doom 2... (1984/1989/1990) -> watch (some or all of them) online here
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and here
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and here
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Wed, 11/11 ]Veterans Day[ -
Mon, 11/16 Video Game
Sonics Read: Neil Lerner, "The Origins of Musical Style in Video Games, 1977-1983
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," Oxford Handbook of Film Music
Simon Wood, "High Scores: Making Sense of Music and Video Games
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Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media ch 7 (p 129-148)
Screening: Beep: A Documentary History of Game Sound
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(2016) - watch here
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Wed, 11/18 Henry Mancini,
David Newman Read: John Caps, "Here was something fresh
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," Reinventing Film Music ch1 (p 1-4)
Read: Tim Greiving, “The music of Henry Mancini, remembered
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,” Los Angeles Times, April 2 2017
Mon, 11/23 Ennio Morricone,
John Williams Read: Emilio Audissino, "The return of Max Steiner
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" John Williams' Film Music, ch 10 (p. 161-182)
Screenings: The Untouchables
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(1987), Brian de Palma
and/or War of the Roses
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(1989), Danny DeVito -> watch here
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and here
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Wed, 11/25 Danny Elfman,
Nino Rota Read: Michel Chion, "The Audiovisual Scene
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," Audio-Vision ch 4 (p. 66-94)
Janet Halfyard, "Mischief Afoot
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," Music in the Horror Film ch 2 (p 21-37)
Mon, 11/30 Lalo Shifrin,
Hans Zimmer Read: Harvey Siders, "Keeping Score
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" Celluloid Symphonies ch 39 (p. 337-343)
Screening: Oh Brother Where Art Thou
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(2000), Joel & Ethan Coen -> watch here
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Wed, 12/02 Animations Read: Rebecca Coyle, "Audio Motion
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," Drawn to Sound (p. 1-22)
Mon, 12/7 Trent Reznor,
Atticus Ross Read: Lea Jacobs, "Mickey Mousing Reconsidered
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," Film Rhythm ch 3 (p 58-108)
Screening: How to Train your Dragon
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(2010), Dean deBlois -> watch here
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Wed, 12/9 Summary Read: Michel Chion, "God is a Disc Jockey
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," Film, A Sound Art ch 24 (p 407-436)
Mon, 12/14 FINAL EXAM Review your notes!
