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Cursus: MU3V16001
MU3V16001
Film Music: History and Analysis
Cursus informatie
CursuscodeMU3V16001
Studiepunten (EC)7,5
Cursusdoelen
Graduates of this course have gained an advanced level of:
  • understanding the history of film music and its theoretical concepts;
  • repertoire knowledge regarding film music;
  • critical reflective and audio-visual analytical skills.
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Priority rules apply to this course. Make sure you register for this course before June 14, 12.00 noon to be considered for enrollment.
The following students are guaranteed a place:

  • BA Muziekwetenschap;
  • BA TCS or LAS;
  • pre-master’s students.
Other students will be placed by means of random selection. 

Film music is a specific music genre with a history of well over a century. In 1908 the first film with real ‘film music’ was released: L’assasinat du Duc de Guise by André Calmettes and Charles le Bargy; the music was composed by Camille Saint-Saëns. From the earliest years on, the sound accompanying the images (whether performed live, or mediatized via ever improving speaker systems) has challenged debates about the role of sound and music in relation to the narrative and the moving image. Strongly aesthetized (and politized) in the first half of the century, studying and writing about ‘film music’ has gained academic legitimacy since a few decades. In this course we follow the discussions, the topics and the paradigm changes concerning film music from a historical point of view.
We will study context and content of the most prominent functions of music within (most importantly) narrative feature film. At the same time, the course will provide a historical tour d’horizon on technology, aesthetics and implications of film sound and film music, using several theoretical approaches (Breil, Adorno, Eisler, Copland, Prendergast, Gorbman, Chion, Kassabian, Pisani et alt.)
A History of Film Music by Mervyn Cooke will provide the historical framework. Students of this class practice various theoretical approaches and coinciding audio-visual analyses in a series of weekly assignments. A weekly film viewing is part and parcel of the course.
 
Film music: History and Analysis is the first course of the Music and Media track (‘verdiepingspakket Muziek en media’) and deals especially with the role of music within narrative cinematographic contexts.

LAS and TCS students who follow this course as part of the core curriculum of their major need to complete a compulsory preparation course/assignment. See students.uu.nl/gw/tcs for more information.
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