Music and Mythmaking in Film by Timothy E. Scheurer

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.

About the Author
Timothy E. Scheurer is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio. He has taught literature and popular culture courses for over 20 years.

Reviews
"recommended"-Choice; "a wonderful examination of the dynamic process of the relationship between myth, storytelling, and music in the movies. Timothy Scheurer has written a book that is desperately needed in a scholarly field that often desires to obscure its subject rather than enlighten it"-The Journal of Popular Culture; "constitutes a major study of the conventions of film scoring in a number of set genres. Particularly convincing and intriguing are the sections where Scheurer explains how narrative genre conventions have changed over time and how corresponding compositional changes can be detected...this is a major study into the composition of film music and of the kind of techniques that composers use on a daily basis, and its discussion of the relationship between film music and film genre highlights areas for further investigation in music and moving image scholarship"-Music, Sound and Moving Image.



Book Information
ISBN 9780786431908
Author Timothy E. Scheurer
Format Paperback
Page Count 273
Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
Publisher McFarland & Co Inc
Weight(grams) 476g
Dimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 14mm