Ferencz The Music for <i>Victory at Sea</i>

Richard Rodgers, Robert Russell Bennett, and the Making of a TV Masterpiece
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-80010-957-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 190, 396 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Eastman Studies in Music

This long-awaited study explores the creation of NBC-TV's landmark 1952-53 WWII documentary series, with particular attention to its evocative Rodgers-Bennett score.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ferencz, George J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Militärmusik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Dokumentarfilme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments

Part One: Victory's Inception, Production, and Impact

1. Henry Salomon, NBC, the U.S. Navy, and Victory's Genesis
2. Assembling Victory's Production Team, Preparing an Episode
3. Victory's Debut Season: Sponsorship (or Not?), Promotion, Scheduling, and Awards
4. Richard Rodgers: Twelve Themes for Victory, the "Thirteen Hour Score" Legend, and Two Breakout Hits
5. Robert Russell Bennett: Preparing for Victory, Music for a Global War, and the Importance of F#
6. The NBC Symphony-and Victory's 1952-53 Recording Sessions
7. The Victory Scripts' Poetics
8. Robert Montgomery, C.S. Forester, and Victory
9. Victory on Records: The Commercial and "House" LPs
10. Victory Abridged: for Film (1954) and Television (1960)
11. Victory's Predecessors and Successors

Part Two: The Twenty-Six Victory Episodes

Introduction

EP1, "Design for War"
EP2, "The Pacific Boils Over"
EP3, "Sealing the Breach"
EP4, "Midway is East"
EP5, "Mediterranean Mosaic"
EP6, "Guadalcanal"
EP7, "Rings Around Rabaul"
EP8, "Mare Nostrum"
EP9, "Sea and Sand"
EP10, "Beneath the Southern Cross"
EP11, "The Magnetic North"
EP12, "The Conquest of Micronesia"
EP13, "Melanesian Nightmare"
EP14, "Roman Renaissance"
EP15, "D-Day"
EP16, "Killers and the Killed"
EP17, "The Turkey Shoot"
EP18, "Two If by Sea"
EP19, "Battle of Leyte Gulf"
EP20, "Return of the Allies"
EP21, "Full Fathom Five"
EP22, "The Fate of Europe"
EP23, "Target Suribachi"
EP24, "The Road to Mandalay"
EP25, "Suicide for Glory"
EP26, "Design for Peace"

Postscript
Appendix One Robert Russell Bennett: A Grandson's Victory Remembrance
Appendix Two Victory at Sea: A Chronology
Appendix Three Digest of Victory's Music-Scoring Statistics
Appendix Four Sample Shot List (EP26)
Appendix Five The 1959 Companion Book

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ferencz George J.:
GEORGE J. FERENCZ taught music theory and arranging at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater from 1991 to 2019.