John Haines

Music in Films on the Middle Ages

Authenticity vs. Fantasy

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the role of music in the some five hundred feature-length films on the Middle Ages produced between the late 1890s and the present day. Haines focuses on the tension in these films between the surviving evidence for medieval music and the idiomatic tradition of cinematic music. The latter is taken broadly as any musical sound occurring in a film, from the clang of a bell off-screen to a minstrel singing his song. Medieval film music must be considered in the broader historical context of pre-cinematic medievalisms and of medievalist cinema's main development in the course of the twentieth century as an American appropriation of European culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780415824125
• ISBN-10: 0415824125
• Artikelnr.: 36950018

Autorenporträt

John Haines is Professor of Music History and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The Bell 3. The Trumpet Fanfare and the Horn Call 4.
Banquet and Court Music 5. The Singing Minstrel 6. Chant 7. The Riding
Warrior 8. Conclusion Bibliography Appendix 1: List of Films in
Alphabetical Order Appendix 2: List of Films in Chronological Order
Bibliography Index