Film Music and the Long History of the Dies Irae
Buch, Englisch, 239 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 461 g
ISBN: 978-3-031-78794-2
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
The is a melody that composers of film music have employed in hundreds of films, ranging from to and . Itis a product of more than 800 years of musical transformation, finding purchase in a variety of musical environments, including the church, the concert hall, and the cinema. Based on a corpus of nearly 300 films, models two new ways of thinking about the . First, it identifies three different versions of the melody, each of which signifies a different function of film music. Second, it traces the semantic shift of the from its religious roots to its secular perception as a symbol of death. This study of the most widely-used theme in film music history will change how you listen to movies.
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Chapter 1: Introduction: The “Other” in Horror; the Dies Irae as “Other”.- Part I: History.- Chapter 2: Making of a Musical Meme: Wendy Carlos & Stanley Kubrick.- Chapter 3: Tracing Film Music’s Most Ubiquitous Melody: Silent Films, Dimitri Tiomkin, and Vampires.- Part II: Theory.- Chapter 4: The Many Guises of Dies Irae: “Prelude to Evil,” “Ominous Echo,” and “Tension Engine”.- Chapter 5: “It Seems to Belong to Civilization”: The Dies Irae in Italy, Camp Crystal Lake, and a Galaxy.- Chapter 6: Afterword: The Ghost Light.
