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Yunyk, Tetiana, and Mykola Tsarev. "Soundtrack in Modern Cinema." Bulletin of Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts. Series in Audiovisual Art and Production 4, no. 1 (June 30, 2021): 67–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.31866/2617-2674.4.1.2021.235086.
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The purpose of the research is to analyze popular examples of modern cinema music to determine the features of its interaction with various elements of screen text, taking into account the applied nature and applying various relevant approaches to the study of soundtracks. The research methodology consists in the application of a set of methods for theoretical analysis of film music, their interaction with internal and external factors of influence on the formation of the viewer’s image-emotional sphere in conditions of purposeful perception of the storyline of modern cinema. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that for the first time the peculiarities of the music functioning in modern cinema were analyzed, the main trends in the development of film music in the socio-cultural conditions of our time were revealed, and film music from the perspective of the viewer as a “non-ideal” evaluator of soundtracks in modern cinema was also considered. Conclusions. The article, using various methodological approaches, has proved that film music in the framework of interaction with screen text manifests itself as a significant tool, expanding the artistic space of the film. Film music can go beyond direct acoustic information, reflecting the narrative and conceptual components of the work of art as a whole. A practical example of the manifestation of modern film music is the use of timbral colours as an instrument for revealing the context of events, time, and the image of a hero; leitmotif; experiments with the technical side of sound through the expansion of the imaginary space of the screen. The main trends in the development of film music in the socio-cultural conditions of our time are due to the release of soundtracks beyond the boundaries of a practical film instrument. The modern soundtrack occupies a significant part of the cultural space of music and culture in general. This position is facilitated by the composer’s conceptual approach, the style integrity of the work and the relative independence of the soundtrack in the general cultural space. The rating of soundtracks is given by the audience and depends on their aesthetic preferences and the level of musical “experience”. Soundtracks must meet the requirements of modern cinema and common cultural space, which contributes to the success of the film.
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Kallioniemi, Kari. "Toposkartta, kliseekokoelma ja moderni panoraama." Lähikuva – audiovisuaalisen kulttuurin tieteellinen julkaisu 32, no. 2 (July 1, 2019): 27–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.23994/lk.83448.
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Artikkelissa tarkastellaan suomalaisista musiikkitähdistä viime vuosina tehtyjä elämäkertaelokuvia ja niiden luonnetta mediahistorian kontekstissa. Millainen yhteys 1800-luvun mediakulttuurin todellisuudella ja sen topoksilla on musiikkitähdistä kertoviin melodramaattisiin elämäkertaelokuviin? Historiallisen ja vertailevan musiikkielokuvien lähiluvun kautta artikkeli pohtii kysymystä siitä, millä tavoin nämä elokuvat ovat kuvanneet musiikkitähtien elämää ja taidetta valkokankaalla. Käsittelemissäni suomalaiselokuvissa topokset, kliseet ja muut banaalin kansallisuuden merkit ovat osa digitaalisen kulttuurin kierrätystä, niiden avulla voidaan rakentaa emotionaalinen silta digitaalisen maailman ulkopuolella olevaan kansalliseen materiaaliseen todellisuuteen.Varhaisen eurooppalaisen kulttuuriperinnön topokset löysivät paikkansa 1800-luvun media- ja massakulttuurin panoraamoissa ja varhaisessa elokuvassa. Erityisesti Timo Koivusalon kansallisista musiikkitähdistä kertovat elokuvat ovat tietynlainen reaktionäärinen osa digitaalisen aikakauden mediakulttuurista murrosta. Elokuvien edustamat kliseet, topokset ja panoraamakerrontaan viittaava rakenne eivät niinkään pyri olemaan osa elokuvataidetta, vaan viittaavat elokuvan muodon avulla enemmän nykypäivän kulttuuriseen nationalismiin, joka hakee elinvoimansa kansallisista myyteistä, suurmiehistä, kansallisen historian käännekohdista, traditioista ja rituaaleista, maisemista, esineistä ja musiikkiesityksistä.Topos map, cliché collection, and modern panorama: The national music star biopic in media culture continuumThe article examines recent Finnish music star biopics and their characteristics in the context of media history. I apply historical and comparative close reading in analyzing the ways in which earlier films have represented the lives and art of great music stars. Melodramatic biographical films were in many ways successors to 19th century media culture as carriers of European cultural heritage in depicting the lives and art of musical heroes. The Finnish films discussed in this article use topoi and clichés which represent banal nationalism.The 21st century Finnish national musical hero biopics, and especially the films by Timo Koivusalo, can be seen as a kind of reactionary response to the digital disruption of media culture. The films’ clichés, topoi, and panoramic style of narration are not used to create film art as such. Instead, film form is applied to flag today’s cultural nationalism, which uses national myths, great men, national historical turning points, traditions and rituals, landscapes, artifacts, and music to gain vitality. The films construct an emotional bridge to a nationalistic, materialistic past which exists outside the digital world.
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Roe, Keith, and Monica Löfgren. "Music video use and educational achievement: a Swedish study." Popular Music 7, no. 3 (October 1988): 303–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143000002968.
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Almost since their inception film and television have employed music as background accompaniment. Despite this obvious fact, the significance of such musical accompaniment has been underestimated by most researchers (see Tagg 1979). The contemporary conjunction of video technology, communication satellites and cable-TV has created a media environment in which television featuring music videos has thrived, and in which media researchers are no longer able to ignore the synchronisation of aural and visual content. While the idea of synchronising musical and visual presentation is itself not new (see Aufderheide 1986), its realisation in the modern music video presents those seeking to describe and explain media behaviour with a new set of problems and tasks.
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Cuenca, Esther Liberman. "‘The Rains of Castamere’: medievalism, popular culture, and the music of Game of Thrones." Popular Music 39, no. 3-4 (December 2020): 554–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143020000549.
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AbstractThis article closely examines the song ‘The Rains of Castamere’, from the television series Game of Thrones (2011–19), to draw broader conclusions about how ‘medieval’ music manifests in contemporary popular culture and how music for television has become increasingly important in the last few decades. This article argues for the relevance of ‘The Rains of Castamere’ in popular music from three perspectives: first, as a musical adaptation of the ‘medieval’ world of 'folk’ music popularised in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels (1996–); second, as a song embedded in the rich tradition of modern ‘medieval’ music, which itself is a modern reconstruction influenced by cinematic and literary tropes; and lastly, as a track that exemplifies the influence of fan culture in both shaping and responding to popular medievalist music.
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Romashchuk, I. M. ""THE FRONT": MUSIC FOR A FILM AS AN ARCHIVAL DOCUMENT." Arts education and science 1, no. 2 (2020): 88–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.36871/hon.202002011.
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"Music and cinema" is an important and popular topic in modern science. Correlation of visual and sound text, author’s music and various quotations, special artistic means and traditional academic writing — these and many other things provide an opportunity to explore a film as a three-dimensional and multi-component whole, to update the knowledge about the work of those artists who are involved in film production. In this regard, music in cinema is a special and yet still insufficiently explored area. It is well known that the music in a film and the cinematographic score, created by the composer are, most often, two close, but not identical texts. Not all musical numbers created or even recorded can be heard in a film, especially if we are talking about movies of the war years, because their integrity, their safety was not always possible. The film can be preserved, find itself in the vaults of history and not contain all the musical material, as happened to one of the most notable wartime films directed by G. N. and S. D. Vasilyev "The Front" (1943) with music by G. N. Popov (1904–1972). Based on the widely known play by A. E. Korneychuk, this film immediately attracted attention by its acute problem setting of front command in the first years of the war. The play, which won the Stalin Prize of the first degree, was staged in many theaters of the country and was a huge success, as was the film "The Front", one of the main roles in which B. Babochkin played. The film, as well as the play, was included in the Historical fund of works of national art. Based on archival materials, the author analyzes the preserved musical notes for the film "The Front" in the context of the play by A. Korneychuk and the script for the film, created by the playwright together with the directors. As the research has shown, the film "The Front" with the music by G. N. Popov is an important part of the art of the wartime, when, according to the composer, all forces in the creative field were given to "the national cause — the fight against the enemy" [2, 134].
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Devyatova, Olga. "DIALOGUE BETWEEN ELITE AND MASS GENRES IN THE MUSICAL WORK OF ALEXEI RYBNIKOV." Herald of Culturology, no. 3 (2022): 209–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.31249/hoc/2022.03.12.
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The article is devoted to the actual problem of the dialogue between elite and mass musical cultures, which is studied on the example of Alexei Rybnikov's work. Culturologically the most significant works of the modern composer of classical (elitist) and mass genres (film music, rock music, etc.) are analyzed, in which the techniques and methods of their interaction and dialogue are revealed. The conclusion is made about the free intercultural genre synthesis, which led to high, bright and original artistic results.
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Voskoboinikov, Y. "A pianist and his musical instrument (on the example of Alexandre Tharaud’s works)." Culture of Ukraine, no. 72 (June 23, 2021): 76–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.31516/2410-5325.072.11.
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The relevance. The modern media space is full of musical experience of different cultures, which is embodied by musical instruments. Each of them with its uniqueness occupies the same important place on the stage as a composer, a piece of work and a performer. First, only by their appearance and name, and then by timbre, volume, range, musical instruments (solo or in an ensemble or orchestra) objectify the sound space, set the parameters of artistic communication. A musical instrument as an artifact exists in musical activity not as a certain thing, even exceptionally valuable, but, first of all, as a “mediator of use” (Voronin A. Myth of technology. Moscow: Nauka, 2004. P. 65). It is the process of its use that needs to be understood not only in broad historical and cultural contexts, but also in the scale of creative activity of one performer.
The aim of the article is to try to use the example of the famous pianist Alexandre Tharaud (1968) to consider the process of understanding the “horizons” of his creative world through the selection and development of certain musical instruments, including pianos of modern production. Such a problematic prospect includes: on the one hand, the purely economic relationship between the musician and world brands and requires a definition of the artist-ambassador at the music market, on the other — highlights the performance search for reliable “mediators” for their own version of the music, new opportunities for dialogue with the historical past.
The methodology. It is based on the comparative method, the application of the apparatus of organology in historical retrospect, as well as on the methodological approaches used by E. Nazaikinsky and A. Voronin.
The results. The problem of the relationship between the piano firm and the performer was raised in the historical context. On the example of Alexandre Tharaud’s discography the modern mechanisms of the relationship between the piano firm and the performer were revealed.
The topicality. It is the first time Alexandre Tharaud’s experience in media representation of piano products is summarized. It is the first time the piano works and performance in terms of instrumental resources involved in the Alexandre’s performance was analyzed.
The practical significance. The material can be used in the educational process, as well as by professionals who are interested in this prospect for further study of the performance issue.
The conclusions. Nowadays, pianists master a significant number of musical instruments. Guided by individual sound perceptions, they choose their priority brand. A professional performer is able to adjust the musical concept of the work in relation to the existing piano during the game. The performer adapts a piece of music to the instrument through a complex of feelings such as hearing, touch, sight, smell, and, emphasized by Alexandre Tharaud, the feeling of pain which is familiar to all performers. Alexandre Tharaud in his own music albums, represented not only the original performance versions of classical music, but also each time opened a new refraction of the sound spectrum of a particular piano company, through the original artistic and sound representation of each of the works. In the modern media space, Alexandre Tharaud has created a treasure trove of sound spectra of Steinway and Yamaha pianos, which combine such timbre capabilities that can meet the artistic needs of almost every artist.
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AIZENSHTADT, SERGEI A. "SOUTH KOREAN TV SERIES IN THE SERVICE OF MUSIC EDUCATION." Art and Science of Television 16, no. 3 (2020): 133–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.30628/1994-9529-2020-16.3-133-156.
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In this article we study forms and methods used to popularize western classical music in a South Korean TV series. The main subject of analysis is the TV series Beethoven Virus (2008) devoted to a symphony orchestra in a fictional South Korean city. The main purpose of this TV series is the promotion of classical music, and the author of the article comes to the conclusion that its popularity among Korean audience is explained by its engaging, convincing artistic methods with respect to national cultural specificities, which were used to show the working environment of professional musicians. The series reveals real problems of modern Korean musical culture: “crisis of overproduction” of academic musicians; discrimination of graduates of South Korean musical educational institutions; prejudice that classical music is only for the rich. The author emphasizes that immersion into the atmosphere of professional musical life allows the viewers to apprehend the educational value of the TV series more clearly. Beethoven Virus demonstrates traditional Korean attitude towards European classical music determined by the Confucian roots; and at the same time, it depicts changes in the modern culture conditioned by gradual departure from traditional values. The two main characters — the young and the old conductors — symbolize the old and the new in the Korean musical culture. They interact in a traditional eastern way: the new spirit does not openly conflict with the established convention, but sprouts from it. The author suggests that the music is explained in the film through emotional associations which let the viewers fully perceive the musical idea. The author believes that this method, compared to other ways widespread in the West, corresponds to the nature of the specific sensation of European classical music associated with Confucian cultural roots. An opinion is expressed that methods of music education used in Beethoven Virus were chosen in accordance to the South Korean serial genre traditions: leitmotivs in the soundtrack and gesture clichés are of particular significance here. The author suggests that the South Korean experience of promoting musical classics by means of serial films can be used abroad — given that the differences in mentality and realities of musical life are taken into account.
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Nicholson, Rashna Darius. "“A Christy Minstrel, a Harlequin, or an Ancient Persian”?: Opera, Hindustani Classical Music, and the Origins of the Popular South Asian “Musical”." Theatre Survey 61, no. 3 (July 27, 2020): 331–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557420000265.
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The story of South Asian colonial modernity and music offers up a multidirectional and polymorphous conceptual terrain featuring, among many agents, Hindustani royalty, touring minstrel and burlesque troupes, Jesuit missionaries and orientalists, and not least, social reformists. Nevertheless, scholarship on the history of Hindustani music consistently traces its development through classicization against the rise of Hindu nationalism while overlooking other palpable clues in the colonial past. This article argues for a substantial reevaluation of colonial South Asian music by positing an alternative and hitherto invisible auditory stimulus in colonial Asia's aural landscape: opera. Janaki Bakhle contends that “as a musical form, opera put down even fewer roots than did orchestral, instrumental Western classical music,” even though she subsequently states that “Western orchestration did become part of modern ceremonial activities, and it moved into film music even as it was played by ersatz marching bands.” Bakhle further argues that Hindustani music underwent processes of sanitization and systematization within a Hindu nation-making project, a view that has been complicated by historians such as Tejaswini Niranjana. Niranjana describes how scholarship that focuses exclusively on the codification or nationalization of Hindustani music through the interpellation of a Hindu public neglects “sedimented forms of musical persistence.” Not dissimilarly, Richard David Williams highlights how the singular emphasis on the movement of Hindustani music reform risks reducing the heterogeneous and complex musicological traditions in the colonial period to the output of a single, monolithic, middle-class “new elite.” Previous scholarship, he argues, concentrates on “one player in a larger ‘economy’ of musical consumption.” Following these calls for more textured perspectives on South Asian musical cultures, I suggest a somewhat heretical thesis: that opera functioned as a common mediating stimulus for both the colonial reinscription of Hindustani music as classical as well as the emergence of popular pan-Asian musical genres such as “Bollywood” music.
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Ryzhinskiy, Aleksander S., and Grigoriy R. Konson. "Alliance of Cinema and Music: the First KINOREX Film Music Festival in the Context of Interaction between Music and Cinema in the Early 21st Century." Art and Science of Television 17, no. 4 (2021): 174–217. http://dx.doi.org/10.30628/1994-9529-2021-17.4-174-217.
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Professor of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Grigoriy R. Konson interviews the rector of the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music, professor Aleksander S. Ryzhinskiy. The interview focuses on how film directors and composers see the role of music in films, with music considered as a twofold phenomenon: film score as such and film scores presented at the First KINOREX Film Music Festival. In the preamble, the interlocutors review current trends in film music. In this vein, they touch upon the psychological concept of the French cinematography, interpretation of the Indian song tradition in endowing films with musicality, Baroque music and modern performance practices applied in the 20th century cinema dramaturgy, the Hollywood way of soundtrack composition as a dominating model in the world cinema, and studies devoted to the works of Alfred Schnittke and Thomas Newman. Based on these examples, the interlocutors come to the conclusion that at the heart of different approaches to the film music composition there must be an organic commonality of views of the film director and the composer. Beyond that, a binding force in the process is the reliance on classical traditions of their artistic interaction: expressing the very essence of a film’s drama through music. The discussion of the First KINOREX Film Music Festival, which was held by the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music in April 2021, naturally fits into this humanistic concept. Analyzing the winning project created by director Nadezhda Shibalova and composer Nikita Yamov, the authors of the interview come to the conclusion that the musical fabric of the screen work reveals the fundamental role of music as an analogue of the film’s ethical idea, which increases the cognitive capacity of the content.
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Basu, Priyanka. "Between presence and absence in Tuni Chatterji’s Okul Nodi." Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ) 11, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 54–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/miraj_00083_1.
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This article examines the layers of vistas of landscape, archival audio, ambient sound and documentation of history and culture in Los Angeles‐based filmmaker Tuni Chatterji’s experimental documentary film Okul Nodi (Endless River) (2012). Chatterji’s film consists mainly of luminous shots of boatmen travelling along Bangladeshi rivers. During key sequences, recordings of Bangladeshi boatmen’s songs known as bhatiyali are heard on the soundtrack. Interspersed among these shots and tracks are brief interview scenes with anthropologists and archivists of this musical form and musicians who perform or study the genre. This article shows how the film fuses experimental filmic approaches from artisanal to structural with documentary, ethnographic and archival modes, including that of ‘ecocinema’, highlighting questions of seeing and knowing. It also traces how the film obliquely brings to light a history of twentieth-century engagement with and archiving of this musical genre on the part of collectors of folk and Indigenous music, as well as radical subcontinental modern artists, thinkers and activists across Partition’s borders.
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GRONOW, PEKKA, and BJÖRN ENGLUND. "Inventing recorded music: the recorded repertoire in Scandinavia 1899–1925." Popular Music 26, no. 2 (May 2007): 281–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143007001298.
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AbstractThe first Scandinavian records appeared in 1899. By 1925, over 27,000 sides had been made in the region, and recordings had become an established part of musical life. Half of the recordings were made by the Gramophone Company, the market leader, but there were at least a dozen competing firms. The companies had to find out by trial and error what types of music would be attractive to customers. Early recording artists were mostly well-known personalities from opera, theatre or music halls, and their repertoire had already been tried on the stage.Most Scandinavian records were pressed in Germany or the United Kingdom, and the companies also promoted their international repertoire in the region, but customers preferred local artists. A hundred years ago, opera singers were the only internationally known recording artists. Popular music was tied to local languages and traditions, and a demand for imported popular music only emerged after World War One, with the growing popularity of modern dance music.
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Beaster-Jones, Jayson. "Re-tuning the past, selling the future: Tata-AIG and the Tree of Love." Popular Music 30, no. 3 (September 21, 2011): 351–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143011000183.
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AbstractThis article explores the mobilisation of Indian popular music in the Tata-AIG life insurance company television advertisement ‘Tree of Love’ (2004). I address ways in which music representing different periods of Hindi film, along with visual representations of Indian material culture, have been integrated into an advertising narrative that alludes to India's technological and economic development. I suggest that a range of aural and visual signs subtly complement each other in creating a narrative that not only marks the passage of time, but reframes past social and economic debates into contemporary terms. I contextualise this advertisement – and the signs that it uses – within the field of the Indian insurance industry, as well as within the social-historical context of modern India. Then, utilising elements of Peircean semiotic theory, I closely analyse the aural representations of the passage of time and different eras of Indian musical culture. The analysis ties together the interactions of musical and non-musical signs with the cultural memories that the commercial is designed to evoke. Ultimately, I argue that musical meaning in this advertising context emerges from the complex interaction of these aural and visual signs, and produces memory as much as it reflects it.
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Beck, Guy. "Sacred Music and Hindu Religious Experience: From Ancient Roots to the Modern Classical Tradition." Religions 10, no. 2 (January 29, 2019): 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel10020085.
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While music plays a significant role in many of the world’s religions, it is in the Hindu religion that one finds one of the closest bonds between music and religious experience extending for millennia. The recitation of the syllable OM and the chanting of Sanskrit Mantras and hymns from the Vedas formed the core of ancient fire sacrifices. The Upanishads articulated OM as Śabda-Brahman, the Sound-Absolute that became the object of meditation in Yoga. First described by Bharata in the Nātya-Śāstra as a sacred art with reference to Rasa (emotional states), ancient music or Sangīta was a vehicle of liberation (Mokṣa) founded in the worship of deities such as Brahmā, Vishnu, Śiva, and Goddess Sarasvatī. Medieval Tantra and music texts introduced the concept of Nāda-Brahman as the source of sacred music that was understood in terms of Rāgas, melodic formulas, and Tālas, rhythms, forming the basis of Indian music today. Nearly all genres of Indian music, whether the classical Dhrupad and Khayal, or the devotional Bhajan and Kīrtan, share a common theoretical and practical understanding, and are bound together in a mystical spirituality based on the experience of sacred sound. Drawing upon ancient and medieval texts and Bhakti traditions, this article describes how music enables Hindu religious experience in fundamental ways. By citing several examples from the modern Hindustani classical vocal tradition of Khayal, including text and audio/video weblinks, it is revealed how the classical songs contain the wisdom of Hinduism and provide a deeper appreciation of the many musical styles that currently permeate the Hindu and Yoga landscapes of the West.
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Bombola, Gina. "Searching for a Fresh Point of View." Journal of Musicology 35, no. 3 (2018): 368–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jm.2018.35.3.368.
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In the early 1940s Aaron Copland cultivated an identity as an authority on film composition through public lectures, interviews, and his own film scores. Championing film music’s potential as a serious art form, Copland sought to show Hollywood that film composers could branch out from the romantic and post-romantic aesthetics that infused contemporary soundtracks and write in a more modern, even American, style. During the 1940s the film industry was already embracing an abundance of new production styles, techniques, and genres that fostered innovation in the development of cinematic musical codes. When Copland returned to Hollywood in 1948 to score William Wyler’s psychological melodrama The Heiress (1949), he chose to take on a set of new challenges. Copland attempted to discover a new idiom for love music, on the one hand, and began to use leitmotifs as a structural device, on the other. Copland’s experience with The Heiress opens a space in which to reassess his opinions about appropriate film-scoring techniques as well as his public endorsement of film composition. His perspectives on film composition—as demonstrated in his writings, correspondence, and film scores as well as in interviews and reviews of his film music—reveal a tension between the composer’s artistic sensibilities and his attitude toward the commercialism of film music. Indeed he maintained a more ambivalent attitude toward cinematic composition than he publically professed. Understood in this context, Copland’s scoring decisions in The Heiress reflect a turn away from the Americana of Rodeo (1942) and Appalachian Spring (1944) and the Russian-themed score of The North Star (1943), as he sought to refashion his identity as a composer in the post-war years.
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Landes, William, and Douglas Lichtman. "Indirect Liability for Copyright Infringement: Napster and Beyond." Journal of Economic Perspectives 17, no. 2 (May 1, 2003): 113–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/089533003765888467.
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When individuals infringe copyright, they often use tools, services, and venues provided by other parties. An enduring legal question asks to what extent those other parties should be held liable for the resulting infringement. For example, should a firm that produces photocopiers be required to compensate authors for any unauthorized copies made on that firm's machines? What about firms that manufacture personal computers or offer Internet access; should they be held liable, at least in part, for online music piracy? In this essay, we examine how modern copyright law addresses these questions and we evaluate the resulting system on economic grounds.
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Xing, Xin. "TAN DUN'S VIOLIN CONCERTO "THE LOVE" AS A REFLECTION OF STYLISTIC DIVERSITY OF MODERN COMPOSITION." Arts education and science 1, no. 3 (2020): 61–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.36871/hon.202003008.
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The article analyzes "The Love" Violin Concerto (2009) by the famous Chinese and American composer Tan Dun in contextual, composing and linguistic aspects. Based on the statements of his contemporaries, the author considers the composer's musical and aesthetic views that determine the originality of his style, organically combining avant-garde techniques with elements of traditional Chinese music. Tan Dun's Violin Concerto exists in three versions with different titles ("Out of Peking Opera" 1987, "The Love" 2009, "Rhapsody and Fantasy" 2018), representing different artistic concepts with a new viewpoint on the same intonational material. Three movements of the Concerto "The Love" reflect the evolution of feelings at different stages of human life. The composer manages to combine the idea of "national" (a tendency going back to the version of the Concerto "Out of Peking Opera" 1987) with a philosophical understanding of the category of love. The paper discusses the originality of the dramaturgy of "The Love" Violin Concerto, which assumes the third part as the main center (based on the development of thematic material of the first and second movements), the consolidation of parts of the attacca cycle and the rondality of the musical form. The most important peculiarity of the composition is the mixture of elements belonging to different cultural and temporal layers of music. The stylistic diversity of Tan Dun's Concerto is reflected in the following details: the composer's introduction of a stylized tune from the Beijing Opera erhuang, speech intonations resembling recitatives of Chinese dramas, borrowings from his own film music (the second movement), the use of methods typical for traditional Chinese music, yaoban and sanban, the timbre of oriental percussion instruments in a classical symphony orchestra, as well as dodecaphone techniques, aleatorics and Hip-hop rhythms. Special attention in the article is paid to interpretation of expressive possibilities of solo violin: methods of classical-romantic technique are synthesized with traditions of performance on Chinese stringed instruments.
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Golovanova, Elena A. "VISUAL IMAGING FEATURES OF MUSIC VIDEO ADVERTISEMENT AND ITS EFFECTS ON CONSUMER." Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Kul'turologiya i iskusstvovedenie, no. 43 (2021): 197–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/22220836/43/15.
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Before 1950s, advertising had a reputation as a not entirely reputable business. A fragment from A. Hitchcock’ film may serve as an approval of it, where a hero states that in the world of advertising, there is no such thing as a lie, but there is only the expedient exaggeration. With the advent of the TV, the musical functions of transferring and evoking the emotions are generated. Since 1990s, music in advertising refers to music integrated in the media advertisement in order to enhance its success. The novelty of the research concerns the visual and music-visual modalities in the advertisement video contributing to the commercial interest from the consumers, which have been analyzed based on the aesthetic appeal to the screen images. Music is a crucial part of advertising. Thus, the Race of Parts musical content of the advertisement for 2008 featuring the Renault Megane, accompanied by the music from Vivaldi’s the Four Seasons, Summer, Part 3, is closely associated with formation of a product itself. It is expressed by the attractive interactions between the car parts and the rising tessitura, while the color gamut is in contradiction to the general associative perception. The musical score expressing a product olfactory perception is more rhythmic and airy. Thus, the advertisement of the Giorgio Armani Acqua Di Gioia perfume uses the audio-visual modality of the water element including rain, sea waves, and waterfall. Constructing the visual perception is supported by the dominant in music with a tendency to the gradually developing variation set. Unreasonable music used in advertising can result in decreasing the interest to the made brand. This fact has caused a strong activity in finding the new ways to attract the interest of the audience to the commercial product. Animation is one of them (for instance, the animated Coca-Cola Polar Bears Commercial, 2012). The music is written in the classical style by Glenn Rueger. Music supplements expand the imagery of the main heroes, attracting the potential consumers. In the clip of political advertising, the music may play a significant role. The music sounding as a patriotic call can help the audience perception of the essence of the challenge images in the clip and the opportunities to overcome them. The clip from the I am Shapovalov film (1973) with the Let’s Raise the Cavalry Swords song (Composer E. N. Ptichkin and Lyricist E. E. Karelov) performed by V. Mulerman contains a sustaining calmer rhythm. With respect to the same song performed by A. Chuprin, the constants of the march precise in rhythm sound against the reference history of creating and developing the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union and modern Russia. The musical content in advertising is shown to increase the psychological impact on the audience and its emotional arousal, enhancing the attractiveness of a commercial product. Therefore, careful selection of the music material and the method of its use may contribute to creating the rhythmically charged imagery of the clip itself, providing insight into imagery and forming an appropriate language content with the use of cinematographic techniques (editing, color grading, etc.). In addition, the ideological dimension of the musical rhythmic pattern in advertising may contribute to determining the genres of the clip itself.
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Sheppard, W. Anthony. "Continuity in Composing the American Cross-Cultural: Eichheim, Cowell, and Japan." Journal of the American Musicological Society 61, no. 3 (2008): 465–540. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jm.2008.61.3.465.
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Abstract Japanese music has repeatedly served as an exotic model for those American composers seeking “ultra-modern” status. Henry Eichheim's and Henry Cowell's engagements with Japan offer rich case studies for reconsidering our common critical approaches to cross-cultural works, prompting us to question the temporal, geographic, generic, and high/low boundaries typically employed in modernist taxonomy. I find that attempts to employ categorically such terms as “appropriation” and “influence” and “modernist” and “post-modernist” in evaluating cross-cultural compositions limits our experience of such works and that specific examples tend to demonstrate the full contradictory and multifaceted nature of musical exoticism. I turn first to the impact of literary japonisme and travel on Eichheim and consider his aesthetic and didactic motivations. The writings of Lafcadio Hearn provided Eichheim with ready-made impressions of Japan and directly shaped his compositional responses. I note the influence of gagaku and shōō pitch clusters and briefly compare Eichheim's work with that of Hidemaro Konoye (Konoe). I then chronicle Cowell's lifelong encounters with Japanese music, focusing on his study of the shakuhachi with Kitaro Tamada, his experiences at the 1961 Tokyo East-West Music Encounter Conference, and his collaboration with the koto performer Kimio Eto, which reveal the limits of Cowell's embrace of musical hybridity. I argue that Cowell's mature Japanese-inspired works should be considered within the context of American Cold War cultural diplomacy and contemporaneous works of popular, jazz, and film music.
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Pulakis, Nik. "Post in the 'modern': Greek film music and the work of Nikos Mamangakis." Muzikologija, no. 8 (2008): 77–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/muz0808077p.
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This article is focused on Nikos Mamangakis, one of the most ambiguous art-popular composers in Greece. His compositions for cinema are also quite provocative. Mamangakis' cooperation with Finos Film (the major Greek film production company in post-war era) and, on the contrary, his collaboration with Nikos Perakis (one of the most well-known contemporary film directors) vividly illustrate the transformation of film music from the so-called Old to the New Greek Cinema. Through an overall analysis of two of Mamangakis' most important film scores, I hope to reveal the transition process from a realistic modernist perspective to a postmodern one. A second goal is to present critically the general ideological shift in Greek socio-cultural sphere following the seventies change of polity. This paper underlines the perception of Greek music culture as a special case of Western music, which however holds its very distinct stylistic idioms, cultural practices and ideological functions.
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Zagorski, Marcus. "Wien Modern 2014." Tempo 69, no. 272 (April 2015): 77–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040298214001144.
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The focus of Wien Modern 2014, according to Artistic Director Matthias Lošek, is best summarised with the two English words ‘on screen’. In his editorial forward to the programme book, Lošek communicated the thinking behind the festival and explained that ‘“on screen” engages with the interface between film/television and contemporary music’. Perhaps it is no surprise, then, that the majority of events in the festival, which ran from 29 October until 21 November 2014, had a strong visual element. This precedence of the visual in a major contemporary music festival brought to mind a review of this year's Darmstadt courses: ‘Das Auge hört mit’, a reviewer of Darmstadt 2014 concluded in the latest issue of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, ‘the eye listens in’. The world, it seems, is not as we were taught: German-speaking Central Europe, for some the Mecca of absolute music, is looking elsewhere. How could this be?
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Chistyakov, R. V. "“BROTHER BUNNY“ OPERA FOR CHILDREN BY FATTAH: GENRE AND COMPOSITION FEATURES." Arts education and science 1, no. 2 (2020): 133–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.36871/hon.202002016.
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Azon Nurtynovich Fattah (1922–2013), an outstanding composer, pianist, Honored Artist of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, is known among professional musicians primarily for the charm of his songwriting. Yet his music is little known to modern audience. The peak of composer's popularity came in the 1960–70s, when his songs were performed, for example, by Joseph Kobzon and Lev Leshchenko, Maya Kristalinskaya, Gelena Velikanova and Elena Kamburova. Fattah's works include a significant number of chamber-instrumental compositions and plays for orchestras by Yu. V. Silantyev, B. P. Karamyshev, V. V. Meshcherin, several musical comedies, the most famous of which was “Winged” (on the libretto of the wonderful children's poet V. I. Viktorov). The composer also created three operas, among which — the children's opera “Brother Bunny”. The interest of the widest audience in Fattah music at that time was initiated by the composer's film works, namely, music for tapes for children and youth: “The Tale of the Boy-Kibalchish”, “Scuba Diving at the Bottom”, “Young from the Schooner Columbus”. The audience especially remembered the songs that became real hits: “There Was a Stormy Time”, “How Can We Live Without the Sea”, “Song of Cycling Tourists”. Thus, the children's theme occupies one of the central positions in the composer's heritage. It is important that “Brother Bunny” opera stands out among the composer’s opera works by genre type and performing composition and continues the line of Soviet music compositions for the youngest ones, begun by Sergei Prokofiev. “Brother Bunny” is not only an opera for children (figuratively and subjectively accessible to the younger audience of listeners), it is intended for execution by children themselves, which determines the features of its structure, the composition of the participants and some characteristic features of the musical language. This article is an attempt to analyze this opus from the perspective of style guidelines and musical language in the context of Russian music traditions.
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Mikheyeva, Yulia Vsevolodovna. "Alfred Schnittke and the End of Russian Classic Music." Journal of Flm Arts and Film Studies 3, no. 4 (December 15, 2011): 82–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/vgik3482-93.
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The article surveys the ideological and cultural situation in Russian music in the 1970s. It was the period when the most important traits of Alfred Schnittke’s work became apparent, which marked his transition from the images and themes of the Russian “Grand Style” to more complicated sound structures of modern music. Having inherited the intellectual and ethical traditions from Shostakovich, Schnittke brought to music a new perception of reality including a different understanding of a person’s state of mind. Thus, Schnittke’s film scores did not only reflect the shift of modern artistic paradigms, but became a form of philosophic self-consciousness in the context of post-modernist global changes. Schnittke’s music opened the stage of “indirect statement” in film music, which enriched and transformed the meaning of the screen image
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Anyanwu, Obumneke S., and Emaeyak P. Sylvanus. "Music Production Technology in New Nollywood Soundtracks: Context, Application, and the Effect of Globalization." Music and the Moving Image 15, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 22–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/19407610.15.1.02.
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Abstract New Nollywood refers to a segment of Nigerian cinema that began in 2012. The industry is based in Lagos and focuses on Hollywood-style approaches to film and film music. Generally, very little has been written about technologies in the film music of Nigerian cinema. This article is the first to focus explicitly on the impact of modern music production technology in New Nollywood soundtracks. Adopting descriptive as well as survey and historical methods of research, this article reveals what the specific and available technologies for film music in New Nollywood were and currently are; how the practitioners have employed them; as well as how the effects of such technologies have shaped the industry's cultural and economics choices. In addition to a review of the broad literature on cinema and film music, the methodology also relies on studio observation sessions with current industry practitioners as well as an analysis of the New Nollywood film The Bling Lagosians (2019). Taken together, findings reveal that the quality of New Nollywood film music is fluid and reflective of changes to the economic, cultural, and technological preferences of practitioners.
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Vasic, Aleksandar. "Review of music: Forgotten musical magazine of inter-war Belgrade." Muzikologija, no. 19 (2015): 119–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/muz1519119v.
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The monthly magazine Review of Music was published six times in Belgrade from January to June 1940. Each edition comprised thirty-two pages, half of which were devoted to a sheet-music supplement, popular compositions of the time for voice and piano. Review of Music published 222 articles and scores in total. The aim of the magazine was to popularise classical music, but it also encompassed jazz, films and film music, theatre, literature, fashion, and even sport. Review of Music was different from all other Serbian inter-war music magazines, not only because of its wide range of topics, but also because it published anonymous articles, probably taken from other sources, but it is not known from where. This study analyses the articles about classical music in Review of Music. In several short chapters the author presents the concept of the magazine, its genre structure, themes addressed, and the style of its music writers. Selected examples show that article authors tended to exploit elements of narrative (with an emphasis on impressive details), humour, and moral teaching. The authors also especially emphasized the neutral attitude of Review of Music towards contemporary music, although the magazine published different views of contemporary composers concerning the aesthetics of modern music. Review of Music started four months after Germany invaded Poland. However, in the journal references to social and political events are non-existant. The journal seems to have been interested only in culture and the arts. However, the author of this study presents examples in which the political circumstances of the time can be perceived. One of these examples is the visit of the Frankfurt Opera House to Belgrade in 1940. That extraordinary cultural event was attended by Prince Paul Karadjordjevic and Princess Olga, the Yugoslav Prime Minister, and almost all other government ministers. In this news, any authority on the political situation of the time could see that the Yugoslav government and the political elite took care of delicate relations with Germany at that time. This is the first study to analyse the concept and content of classical music in Review of Music. This magazine is certainly an interesting source, not only for the history of Serbian music periodicals, but also for cultural history.
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Kocherzhuk, D. V. "Sound recording in pop art: differencing the «remake» and «remix» musical versions." Aspects of Historical Musicology 14, no. 14 (September 15, 2018): 229–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum2-14.15.
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Background. Contemporary audio art in search of new sound design, as well as the artists working in the field of music show business, in an attempt to draw attention to the already well-known musical works, often turn to the forms of “remake” or “remix”. However, there are certain disagreements in the understanding of these terms by artists, vocalists, producers and professional sound engineer team. Therefore, it becomes relevant to clarify the concepts of “remake” and “remix” and designate the key differences between these musical phenomena. The article contains reasoned, from the point of view of art criticism, positions concerning the misunderstanding of the terms “remake” and “remix”, which are wide used in the circles of the media industry. The objective of the article is to explore the key differences between the principles of processing borrowed musical material, such as “remix” and “remake” in contemporary popular music, in particular, in recording studios. Research methodology. In the course of the study two concepts – «remake» and «remix» – were under consideration and comparison, on practical examples of some works of famous pop vocalists from Ukraine and abroad. So, the research methodology includes the methods of analysis for consideration of the examples from the Ukrainian, Russian and world show business and the existing definitions of the concepts “remake” and “remix”; as well as comparison, checking, coordination of the latter; formalization and generalization of data in getting the results of our study. The modern strategies of the «remake» invariance development in the work of musicians are taken in account; also, the latest trends in the creation of versions of «remix» by world class artists and performers of contemporary Ukrainian pop music are reflected. The results of the study. The research results reveal the significance of terminology pair «remix» and «remake» in the activities of the pop singer. It found that the differences of two similar in importance terms not all artists in the music industry understand. The article analyzes the main scientific works of specialists in the audiovisual and musical arts, in philosophical and sociological areas, which addressed this issue in the structure of music, such as the studies by V. Tormakhova, V. Otkydach, V. Myslavskyi, I. Tarasova, Yu. Koliadych, L. Zdorovenko and several others, and on this basis the essence of the concepts “remake” and “remix” reveals. The phenomenon of the “remake” is described in detail in the dictionary of V. Mislavsky [5], where the author separately outlined the concept of “remake” not only in musical art, but also in the film industry and the structure of video games. The researcher I. Tarasovа also notes the term “remake” in connection with the problem of protection of intellectual property and the certification of the copyright of the performer and the composer who made the original version of the work [13]. At the same time, the term “remix” in musical science has not yet found a precise definition. In contemporary youth pop culture, the principle of variation of someone else’s musical material called “remix” is associated with club dance music, the principle of “remake” – with the interpretation of “another’s” music work by other artist-singers. “Remake” is a new version or interpretation of a previously published work [5: 31]. Also close to the concept of “remake” the term “cover version” is, which is now even more often uses in the field of modern pop music. This is a repetition of the storyline laid down by the author or performer of the original version, however, in his own interpretation of another artist, while the texture and structure of the work are preserving. A. M. Tormakhova deciphered the term “remake” as a wide spectrum of changes in the musical material associated with the repetition of plot themes and techniques [14: 8]. In a general sense, “a wide spectrum of changes” is not only the technical and emotional interpretation of the work, including the changes made by the performer in style, tempo, rhythm, tessitura, but also it is an aspect of composing activity. For a composer this is an expression of creative thinking, the embodiment of his own vision in the ways of arrangement of material. For a sound director and a sound engineer, a “remix” means the working with computer programs, saturating music with sound effects; for a producer and media corporations it is a business. “Remake” is a rather controversial phenomenon in the music world. On the one hand, it is training for beginners in the field of art; on the other hand, the use of someone else’s musical material in the work can neighbor on plagiarism and provoke the occurrence of certain conflict situations between artists. From the point of view of show business, “remake” is only a method for remind of a piece to the public for the purpose of its commercial use, no matter who the song performed. Basically, an agreement concludes between the artists on the transfer or contiguity of copyright and the right to perform the work for profit. For example, the song “Diva” by F. Kirkorov is a “remake” of the work borrowed from another performer, the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 – Dana International [17; 20], which is reflected in the relevant agreement on the commercial use of musical material. Remix as a music product is created using computer equipment or the Live Looping music platform due to the processing of the original by introducing various sound effects into the initial track. Interest in this principle of material processing arose in the 80s of the XXth century, when dance, club and DJ music entered into mass use [18]. As a remix, one can considers a single piece of music taken as the main component, which is complemented in sequence by the components of the DJ profile. It can be various samples, the changing of the speed of sounding, the tonality of the work, the “mutation” of the soloist’s voice, the saturation of the voice with effects to achieve a uniform musical ensemble. To the development of such a phenomenon as a “remix” the commercial activities of entertainment facilities (clubs, concert venues, etc.) contributes. The remix principle is connected with the renewal of the musical “hit”, whose popularity gradually decreased, and the rotation during the broadcast of the work did not gain a certain number of listeners. Conclusions. The musical art of the 21st century is full of new experimental and creative phenomena. The process of birth of modified forms of pop works deserves constant attention not only from the representatives of the industry of show business and audiovisual products, but also from scientists-musicologists. Such popular musical phenomena as “remix” and “remake” have a number of differences. So, a “remix” is a technical form of interpreting a piece of music with the help of computer processing of both instrumental parts and voices; it associated with the introduction of new, often very heterogeneous, elements, with tempo changes. A musical product created according to this principle is intended for listeners of “club music” and is not related to the studio work of the performer. The main feature of the “remake”is the presence of studio work of the sound engineer, composer and vocalist; this work is aimed at modernizing the character of the song, which differs from the original version. The texture of the original composition, in the base, should be preserved, but it can be saturated with new sound elements, the vocal line and harmony can be partially changed according to interpreter’s own scheme. The introduction of the scientific definitions of these terms into a common base of musical concepts and the further in-depth study of all theoretical and practical components behind them will contribute to the correct orientation in terminology among the scientific workers of the artistic sphere and actorsvocalists.
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Fionda, Barbara. "Bohemian Rhapsody. La forza creativa dei Queen." PSICOBIETTIVO, no. 1 (March 2022): 147–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/psob2022-001011.
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Lo scritto offre una lettura psicologica ed estetica del film del 2018 Bohemian Rhapsody, evidenziando la capacita creativa della band musicale ed in particolare il talento artistico e l'intensa esperienza esistenziale di Freddie Mercury, leader e voce dei Queen. Spunti di riflessioni in merito vengono raccolti dalla psicologia junghiana e dalle neuroscienze. Tributo a una band che e stata e sara sempre una leggenda nel panorama mondiale della musica moderna.
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Uroskie, Andrew V. "Visual Music after Cage: Robert Breer, expanded cinema and Stockhausen's Originals (1964)." Organised Sound 17, no. 2 (July 19, 2012): 163–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s135577181200009x.
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Within William Seitz's 1961 exhibition The Art of Assemblage for the New York Museum of Modern Art, the question of framing – of art's exhibitionary situation within and against a given environment – had emerged as perhaps the major issue of postwar avant-garde practice. Beyond the familiar paintings of Johns and Rauschenberg, a strategy of radical juxtaposition in this time extended well beyond the use of new materials, to the very institutions of aesthetic exhibition and spectatorship. Perhaps the most significant example of this disciplinary juxtaposition can be found in the intermingling of the static and the temporal arts. Like many artists of the twentieth century, Robert Breer was fascinated by the aesthetic and philosophical character of movement. Trained as a painter, he turned to cinematic animation as a way of extending his inquiry into modernist abstraction. While the success of his initial Form Phases spurred what would be a lifelong commitment to film, Breer quickly grew frustrated with the kind of abstract animation that might be said to characterise the dominant tradition of visual music. Starting in 1955, his Image by Images inaugurated a radical new vision of hyperkinetic montage that would paradoxically function at the threshold of movement and stasis. As such, Breer's film ‘accompaniment’ to the 1964 production of Stockhausen's Originals has a curious status. While untethered from the musical performance, Breer's three-part ‘film performance’ extended Stockhausen's aesthetic and conceptual framework in rich and surprising ways. It might thus be understood as a ‘post-Cagean’ form of visual music, one in which the sonic and visual components function in a relation of autonomous complementarity within an overarching intermedia assemblage.
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Mikheeva, Yulia V. "SPIRITUAL MUSIC IN DRAMATURGICAL STRUCTURE OF THE MODERN RUSSIAN FILM." Vestnik slavianskikh kul’tur [Bulletin of Slavic Cultures] 55 (2020): 249–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2020-55-249-257.
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Tunbridge, Laura. "Thoroughly Modern Middles." Cambridge Opera Journal 31, no. 1 (March 2019): 118–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954586719000193.
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Young Millie Dilmount arrives in New York City during the jazz age, shingles her hair and looks for a job with a rich, handsome boss she can marry. The musical-film Thoroughly Modern Millie (dir. George Roy Hill, Universal, 1967) may have been a spoof of the 1920s but various twists and turns in its plot nonetheless reveal its middlebrow scaffolding. Social aspiration is written into the plot, as is the ambiguity of its signifiers: although Millie (Julie Andrews) falls for the penniless Jimmy Smith (James Fox), she sets her sights on the seemingly more appropriate Trevor Graydon (John Gavin) only to discover that, of course, Jimmy was a millionaire all along. This is a narrative as much about cultural and social as financial capital. Through its ‘second-order parody’ of racial, ethnic and gender stereotypes, Angelo Pao argues, Thoroughly Modern Millie – along with other American musicals – ‘has played a significant role in the formation of a national persona’. The middlebrow, though, is not necessarily about identity politics, storylines or style; it is also closely bound with modes of dissemination and their relative costs and, because of that, with questions of class. Indeed, the Broadway musical was (and continues to be) a mainly middle-class affair, from its makers to its consumers, who David Savran points out have long needed ‘a good deal of disposable income’, given that ticket prices have always outstripped cinema, spoken theatre – and, on occasion, opera.
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Spracklen, Karl. "From The Wicker Man (1973) to Atlantean Kodex: Extreme music, alternative identities and the invention of paganism." Metal Music Studies 6, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 71–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/mms_00005_1.
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The German epic heavy/doom metal band Atlantean Kodex has written two concept albums based on the folklore and paganism of old Europe and the West: The Golden Bough and The White Goddess. The two albums owe their titles to two books that have influenced the rise of modern paganism, though they remain deeply problematical. In this article, I explore possibly the most important influence on Atlantean Kodex, which is also one of the most important influences on modern paganism: the 1973 horror film The Wicker Man. I discuss the ways in which the film uses the speculative folklore of Frazer and Graves to construct a set of invented traditions about paganism and its alternative, counter-Christian nature, which have made paganism appealing to extreme metal musicians and fans. In this discussion, I use examples from other metal bands and fans who have name-checked the themes and the traditions of the film. In discussing the folklore of the Wicker Man, I also explore the folk music used in the soundtrack, which has also contributed to the invention of modern paganism and extreme folk music. I conclude by suggesting that, although many pagans have adopted this extreme music and myth into their world-views, the myth of the Wicker Man is also used as a playful rejection of Christianity and its authority by those of a secular or humanist persuasion.
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Yang, Tong. "INTEGRATION OF TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS IN MULTIMEDIA AND FILM PROJECTS OF THE COMPOSER: MUSICAL LANGUAGE, DRAMATURGY, COMPOSITION." Globus 8, no. 3(68) (August 4, 2022): 3–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.52013/2658-5197-68-3-1.
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The article is devoted to the work of the modern Chinese-American composer Tang Dong. The author considers the combination of traditions and innovations in his multimedia and film projects and the area of convergence of different musical cultures.
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Messenger, Cory. "Record Collectors: Hollywood Record Labels in the 1950s and 1960s." Media International Australia 148, no. 1 (August 2013): 118–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1314800113.
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The affiliation between film and music is the cornerstone of modern entertainment industry synergy. This article examines one of the key chapters in that relationship: the period in the 1950s during which the major studios entered the record business. Ostensibly designed to capitalise on the emerging film soundtrack market, the flurry of mergers, acquisitions and the establishment of new record labels coincided with the rise of rock‘n’ roll and the explosion of the market for recorded popular music. The studios quickly found that in order to keep their record labels afloat, they needed to establish a foothold in popular music. The processes by which they achieved this transformed the marketing of recorded music, sparking a period of unprecedented commercial success for the record industry in the late 1960s. Simultaneously, from these record subsidiaries Hollywood learned how to market cinema to a youth audience, heralding the arrival of ‘New Hollywood’.
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Ovsjannikova-Trel', Aleksandra. "Film music as a phenomenon of modern culture: On research methodology." Godisnjak Pedagoskog fakulteta u Vranju, no. 7 (2016): 467–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/gufv1607467o.
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Kumar, Keval Joseph. "The 'Bollywoodization' of Popular Indian Visual Culture: A Critical Perspective." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 12, no. 1 (March 21, 2014): 277–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v12i1.511.
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The roots of popular visual culture of contemporary India can be traced to the mythological films which D. G. Phalke provided audiences during the decades of the ‘silent’ era (1912-1934). The ‘talkies era of the 1930s ushered in the ‘singing’ /musical genre which together with Phalke’s visual style, remains the hallmark of Bollywood cinema. The history of Indian cinema is replete with films made in other genres and styles (e.g. social realism, satires, comedies, fantasy, horror, stunt) in the numerous languages of the country; however, it’s the popular Hindi cinema (now generally termed ‘Bollywood’) that has dominated national Indian cinema and its audiovisual culture and hegemonized the entire film industry as well as other popular technology-based art forms including the press, radio, television, music, advertising, the worldwide web, the social media, and telecommunications media. The form and substance of these modern art forms, while adapting to the demands of the new media technologies, continued to be rooted in the visual arts and practices of folk and classical traditions of earlier times.
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Kumar, Keval Joseph. "The 'Bollywoodization' of Popular Indian Visual Culture: A Critical Perspective." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 12, no. 1 (March 21, 2014): 277–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.31269/vol12iss1pp277-285.
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The roots of popular visual culture of contemporary India can be traced to the mythological films which D. G. Phalke provided audiences during the decades of the ‘silent’ era (1912-1934). The ‘talkies era of the 1930s ushered in the ‘singing’ /musical genre which together with Phalke’s visual style, remains the hallmark of Bollywood cinema. The history of Indian cinema is replete with films made in other genres and styles (e.g. social realism, satires, comedies, fantasy, horror, stunt) in the numerous languages of the country; however, it’s the popular Hindi cinema (now generally termed ‘Bollywood’) that has dominated national Indian cinema and its audiovisual culture and hegemonized the entire film industry as well as other popular technology-based art forms including the press, radio, television, music, advertising, the worldwide web, the social media, and telecommunications media. The form and substance of these modern art forms, while adapting to the demands of the new media technologies, continued to be rooted in the visual arts and practices of folk and classical traditions of earlier times.
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Butler, Stephen. "Music, Magic, and Humor." Journal of Film Music 9, no. 1-2 (February 24, 2022): 69–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jfm.38272.
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If you are a student of film music researching the life and work of Max Steiner, there are some things you should know, especially if you are working from a country other than the United States. In 2006–2007, my wife Jane and I traveled to three of the cities with which Steiner is most closely associated (Vienna, London, and Los Angeles) and visited Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah, where the composer’s personal papers have been stored since 1981. This article details those journeys, taken in a strange parallel to Steiner’s own. These include Steiner’s experiences as a child prodigy from an established theatrical family in Vienna; conducting in London and the United Kingdom’s theatrical circuit; a career on Broadway, working with Victor Herbert, George Gershwin, Fred Astaire, and many other theatrical legends; and his final, thirty-five-year career as one of the founding fathers of modern film composition in Hollywood. Furthermore, the internet has made many more materials available to the scholar, including BYU’s developing online thematic catalogue. The “net” result is that future students will have an incredible amount of material available to them, much more than those of just thirty years ago.
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Fredrikzon, Johan. "1. Abstract Machines." Sensorium Journal 3 (March 26, 2021): 18–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/sens.2002-3030.2021.3.18-27.
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Johan Fredrikzon spent one and a half years as a visiting research assistant at the Film and Media Studies Program at Yale University 2018/2019. Some months before he arrived, a two-day workshop on Simondon was held by the Yale-Düsseldorf Working Group on Philosophy and Media, titled Modes of Technical Objects, with scholars from the US and Germany. Fredrikzon decided to engage a few of the workshop participants for this special issue of Sensorium, with the purpose to discuss perspectives on Simondon as a theoretical instrument for thinking technology, how the French philosopher matters in their work, and why there seems to be a revival in the interest in the writing of Simondon these days.
About Gary Tomlinson:
Gary Tomlinson is John Hay Whitney Professor of Music and the Humanities and director of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. Tomlinson has taught and written about the history of opera and early-modern musical thought and practice, but also on the philosophy of history and anthropological theory. In his current research, he combines humanistic theory with evolutionary science and archaeology to search for the role of culture in the evolution of man. Following A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity (MIT Press, 2015), his new book Culture and the Course of Human Evolution (Chicago, 2018) deepens the theoretical framework on how culture has shaped biology.
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Radaeva, E. A. "Traditions of German Expressionism in the Cinematography of the Second Half of the 20th – Early 21st Centuries." Concept: philosophy, religion, culture 6, no. 3 (September 27, 2022): 156–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2541-8831-2022-3-23-156-170.
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The subject of this study is the influence of the traditions of German expressionism on modern cinema, primarily the horror genre. The relevance of this work is due to the need to study the genesis of modern trends in one of the most popular types of art and its popular genres in the context of cultural history in terms of allusions and reminiscences, traditions and innovation. In order to prove that the traditions of expressionism are clearly traced to this day and promise to be quite productive in the long run, as well as to trace the nature of their presence in the history of the film industry, in line with the culturological approach, the method of comparative historical and historical situational analysis, as well as content analysis was mainly used regarding cinematography of the period under consideration. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the very prism of the study and its object — the films of 2021–2022 were considered in terms of traditions of expressionist aesthetics; in addition, the article presents a slightly different view on the masterpieces that have become classics of the cinema of the 20th century. As a result, it was revealed that the expressionist concept of man and the world is strong in the artistic world of cinema art of this period. The methods of German filmmakers of the beginning of the previous century were continued in a somewhat modified form at the level of the play of light and shadow, framing, the figurative system itself (vampires, homunculi, ghosts), mechanistic acting, sinister paraphernalia, and deceitful details. The common denominator of foreign and domestic films of all the genres and subgenres considered in the article was the use of a special musical setting — music that originates from the new Viennese school (in other words, musical expressionism), which also confirms the theory put forward.
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Petrescu, Alexandru Radu. "7. Stylistic Considerations on Scene No. 8 from the Musical Performance PreȚioasele Ridicole [The Affected Young Ladies] by Vasile Spătărelu." Review of Artistic Education 21, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 46–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rae-2021-0007.
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Abstract Molière is one of the playwrights who not only marked and defined the seventeenth century in France, but, creator of the modern comedy and discoverer of the authentic comic, contributed fully to educating the public in his present and for the future. His comedies have stood the test of time, as they resonated with the audience, which found itself in them. In the twentieth century, his plays entered the artistic territories adjacent to the theater trough other creators, who turned them into film scripts and librettos for musical theater. The subject of our research is a fragment pertaining to the farcePrețioasele ridicole [The Affected Young Ladies] turned into a musical show under the signature of Vasile Spătărelu. An important name in Romanian music, creator with great melodic imagination, harmonic refinement and perfect literary taste, the composer from Iași made a possible compositional model for the genre, which is part of the Romanian musical show’s route opened by Paul Constantinescu and Pascal Bentoiu. His work is distinguished by the stylistic area to which it adheres, by rhythm and vivacity, by the original combination between the spoken and the sung text, by the ingenious architecture of the scenes, by the adequacy of the writing technique to the desired effect and expression. Fully requesting all the resources of the interpreters, we consider that the analysis of the important moments is very useful to them. If pages of theatrical exegesis were dedicated to the characters Magdelon and Cathos, for Mascaril we did not identify something similar, much less a stylistic-interpretive analysis from a musical perspective. In order to achieve a complete characterization of the character, useful to potential student performers, we will comment on the first segments of the Scene no.8 in which Mascaril’s “identity” is established, as he presents himself in front of the two “precious ones”. (the entrance and the monologue).
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Breslavets, G. "Artistic reconstruction of the folklore text in the works of Yu. Illienko (on the example of a film-apologue “A well for the thirsty ones”)." Culture of Ukraine, no. 72 (June 23, 2021): 71–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.31516/2410-5325.072.10.
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The topicality. The factors that influence the disclosure nature of the director’s and composer’s creative concept are the leading artistic polystylistic tendencies — stylistic layers and trailblazing experiments in the formation of sound-timbre and visualized combinations, where ancient intonations together with modern sound formation and video performance create new sound and performance realities.
The purpose. To determine the role of artistic reconstruction of the folklore text and the specifics of their artistic embodiment in the film parable “A well for the thirsty ones” by the popular Ukrainian film director Yu. Illienko; to determine the specifics of the embodiment of the signs of cultural codes in the musical-sound score of the film by composer L. Hrabovskyi.
The methodology. The culturological approach applied in revealing the issues of the article made it possible to consider the peculiarities of the drama and musical-sound score of Yu. Illienko’s film “A well for the thirsty ones” in a broad cultural context. The interpretive approach helped to highlight the importance of cultural codes of the folklore text, the specifics of their embodiment in the director’s idea through the artistic reconstruction of the folklore text.
The results. Yu. Illienko and L. Hrabovskyi, addressing the folk song tradition, create a new intonation world, embodied in separate “emergings” of female solo singing (verses of the ballad one by one are strung like beads throughout the picture), in lamentations, in incantations, in children’s amusements when playing on pots, that intersperse with a general, very concise and minimalist sound score of the film. The characteristic and figural semantics of the musical-sound background of the film is saturated with active rhythmics, complex sound palette of combination of electronic sounds with natural ones, which demonstrates the author’s (at the choice of director and composer) special sound complex. Folklore texts in the film create a single hypertext, which is manifested at the appropriate levels — auditory, visual and dramatic.
The novelty. The article considers for the first time the specifics of the embodiment of artistic reconstruction of a folklore text as the basis of the drama of Yu. Illienko’s film “A well for the thirsty ones” and defines sense forming and semantic role of the embodiment of the cultural codes signs in the musical-sound score of the film by composer L. Hrabovskyi.
The practical significance. The artistic reconstruction of the folklore text in the film is based on the introduction of polystylistic tendencies and features of sound (timbre) thinking into the cinematographic process. Prospects for further study of this issue is the study of modern manifestations of artistic reconstruction of the folklore text, the processes of formation of semiotic space both in cinema and in culture in general.
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Mukherjee, Dhrubaa. "Singing-in-between spaces: Bhooter Bhabisyat and the music transcending class conflict." Studies in South Asian Film & Media 12, no. 1 (February 1, 2021): 3–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/safm_00034_1.
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This article analyses Bhooter Bhabisyat, a Bengali political horror satire, as a counter-narrative to Bengali cinema’s monocultural bhodrolok branding. The article argues that Bhooter Bhabisyat is radical in its refusal to follow hegemonic homogenizing musical styles classified into genres such as folk, popular, traditional and modern, which tend to be ethnocentric and class based with serious value judgments about the superiority of certain musical forms over others. Instead, Bhooter Bhabisyat uses a variety of distinct Bengali musical traditions to problematize the historic role of capitalist media that work to homogenize and popularize the dominant culture of the ruling classes. The hybrid songs of the film disrupt a sense of homogeneous bhodrolok class position that Bengali cinema has historically sustained. Through the strategies of musical pastiche, Bhooter Bhabisyat offers a meta-historic narrative about Bengali cinema, which makes possible a critical investigation of the cultural discourses and historical narratives that are discursively embedded within the history of filmic production, circulation and consumption. If film histories are produced by repressing differences between social groups and constructing universal identification, then foregrounding film songs as decolonial storytelling methods that reemphasize local voices and subject matters can lead to an effort to read history from below. The vulgar representation of time as a precise and homogeneous continuum has […] diluted the Marxist concept of history. (Giorgio Agamben) The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. (Karl Marx)
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Rumyantseva, Alina V., and Liliana Yu Malkova. "“Rigoletto”: Variety of Screen Forms and Specifics of Staging Solutions for Classical Opera in Cinema and on Television." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 12, no. 2 (2022): 259–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2022.203.
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In domestic science there is a perception that today’s opera, under the pressure of massification, simultaneously tries to preserve the elusive traditions of “high” art and lowers the bar to the level of mass culture, while the availability of technological possibilities of transferring opera to the screen is not able to change the preferences of the mass audience, unable to perceive it adequately. It cannot be denied that in the 21st century an uninitiated mass audience’s perception of classical opera is largely formed on the basis of screen representations of musical drama. In this context, the analysis of the applied staging solutions in cinema and television in the incarnation of opera, which includes the determination of the components that are necessary for the qualitative screen representation of musical drama, becomes a relevant subject for scientific research. In this article, which is dedicated to 170th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Rigoletto, an attempt is made to analyze four screen forms of one musical drama different from each other with the aim to reveal variability of staging solutions used for the realization of classical opera on TV and in cinema. The specific features of cinematographic and television representation of musical drama influencing the actualization and popularization of opera in the modern screen space are revealed within different genre frames (film-opera, TV version of musical drama, live TV film, musical TV contest). The author identifies the central figure in the latter processes the director-director, a professional in the field of television, who understands the fundamental laws and staging techniques of musical theater, the expressive means of cinematography.
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Finkelshtein, Yu A. ""TOUS LES MATINS DU MONDE": POETRY OF FADING SOUND." Arts education and science 1, no. 4 (2021): 100–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.36871/hon.202104013.
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The object of the article is Alain Corneau's feature film "All the Mornings of the World" ("Tous les matins du monde", 1991). The movie is considered as a work of art with strong postmodern tendencies. The director uses music written in the XVIIth century to create an image of the era. The image of the gambist de Sainte-Colombe is formed on the basis of the aesthetic and emotional perception of his works by the creators of the movie. The timbre of viola da gamba, one of the key features of which is rapid fading, defines the main philosophical idea of the film. The "disadvantage" of the instrument, which contributed to its short life in art, is perceived by the filmmakers as its original value. The rapidly fading sound becomes a metaphorical symbol of dying and rebirth, death and immortality being one. In addition, Baroque music performs the function of temporary "immersion". Using the music of ancient styles, the film industry gains a foothold in true values and an element of authenticity. In turn, by participating in cinema, it appropriates the features of mass culture: lightness, illusiveness, and easy accessibility. Such ambivalence is also characteristic of the plot, in which events that evoke completely modern feelings take place against a historical background far removed from the present moment.
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Roach, Joseph. "Presence and the Stuff That Isn’t There." TDR: The Drama Review 66, no. 4 (December 2022): 73–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1054204322000570.
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The current theory of “camera presence” derives from ancient and early modern sources in theology, natural philosophy, rhetoric, and eventually science. As music depends on silence, “presence” in these disciplines depends on absence, and authorities framed their understanding of the expressiveness of actors by analogizing their performances to “electrical fire” based on the reciprocal action of positive and negative charges as effected by “phlogiston,” or “the stuff that isn’t there.”
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Castelvecchi, Stefano. "On “Diegesis” and “Diegetic”: Words and Concepts." Journal of the American Musicological Society 73, no. 1 (2020): 149–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jams.2020.73.1.149.
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In discussing those passages of an opera in which not only the audience but also the characters of the story hear music, musicologists often write of “diegetic” music, adopting well-established terminology from film studies and narratology. The terms “diegesis” and “diegetic” stem from ancient Greek, and owe their long-standing fortune to their presence in seminal writings by Plato and Aristotle; scholars of narrative, drama, film, and music occasionally note, however, that the meaning assumed by “diegesis” and “diegetic” in recent decades is very different from (or even opposite to) the historical one. In fact, the two meanings coexist in current scholarly usage, engendering terminological (and therefore conceptual) confusion. The goal of this article is to explain how this situation came about. Ancient Greece witnessed the emergence of the basic narratological distinction between recounting and enacting, and its gradual (and far from straightforward) association with the terminological distinction between “diegesis” and “mimesis.” A misinterpretation of Aristotle by French filmologues around 1950 gave rise to the modern meaning of “diegesis” (“storyworld,” or even simply “story”), while the misapprehension by which the ancient and modern terminologies are deemed to have arisen entirely independently of each other originates in the influential work of narratologist Gérard Genette. The story reconstructed here involves to-ing and fro-ing between words and concepts: what may appear as a purely lexical study is also, of necessity, a study about ideas. Moreover, this story might serve more generally as an apologue, reminding us of the sometimes peculiar ways in which bits of our collective wisdom emerge and become accepted.
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Hall, Þorbjörg Daphne. "Can the Core of Icelanders be Found in the Wilderness?:." European Journal of Musicology 18, no. 1 (February 21, 2020): 57–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.5450/ejm.18.1.2019.57.
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This article investigates how Iceland is presented in Heima: A Film by Sigur Rós and how it relates to the issues of nationalism and national identity in Iceland. In this article stereotypes of the North and Iceland are introduced, and concerns regarding nature and nationalism are presented. The indie band Sigur Rós and the film are discussed, and the relationship between nature and music and their conjunction is analysed. The stereotypes of Icelandic national identity appearing in the film are examined and put in context with the ideas from the national romantic movement and its modern counterparts. This is likewise intertwined with an analysis of the attitudes towards nature conservation in the film. The findings show how the film can be understood as a contribution to nation building based on an “othering” process constructed on stereotypes and nationalism, which originates from both urban and foreign viewpoints.
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Mir-Bagirzade, Farida. "ORIENTAL SYMBOLISM OF THE BALLET “SEVEN BEAUTIES” BASED ON THE POEM BY NIZAMI GANJAVI." Historical Search 1, no. 4 (December 25, 2020): 197–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.47026/2712-9454-2020-1-4-197-201.
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The author explores creative interpretations of the work “Seven Beauties” written by a humanist poet Nizami Ganjavi (7th century) from the “Hamse” cycle. The poet was a genuine erudite, connoisseur of not only Koranic texts, history, ancient and Muslim philosophy, but astronomy as well. This article is an attempt to trace the oriental symbolism in the images of Ganjavi in one of the creative interpretations of the poem “Seven Beauties” through the prism of choreographic and scenographic art. The method of research is a semiological analysis, the object of study is the ballet “Seven Beauties”, combining the achievements of modern European choreography and medieval Eastern poetry with its inherent imagery, set to the music of Azerbaijani composer Kara Karayev. The composer K. Karayev actively used authentic musical traditions of Azerbaijan (musical harmonies, Ashug melodics and elements of Azerbaijani folk modes), combining them with European melodies and rhythms. Analyzing the film-ballet “Seven Beauties” (1982, directed by Felix Slidovker) and the new production of the Theater of Opera and Ballet named after M.F. Akhundov (2011), the author traces the transformation of the libretto and offers his own rendition of symbolism in the metaphorical work of the classic Nizami Ganjavi. The search for truth, beauty, and justice has always been a part of a thinking person. Eastern poets chanted this search, this long and difficult road to the truth, the ideal world. Court intrigues, the luxury of the palace and the daily life of the common people, nobility, guile and love intertwined in this metaphorical Eastern parable, which formed the basis for several interpretations of the ballet “Seven Beauties”. Despite the great degree of conventionality inherent in this genre of stage art, the film ballet is characterized by dramaturgical diversity, organic entwinement of developing storylines, dynamic interrelation of social and lyrical-psychological conflicts. The transformation of the libretto to the ballet “Seven Beauties” testifies to a new, deeper reading, its coming closer to the ideological and philosophical metaphorical concept of the original poem by Nizami Ganjavi, to eternal search for the truth, love and justice sung by the poet with oriental imagery characteristic for him.
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Georgieva, Tsvetana. "Pan in the Bulgarian literature of Fin de siècle." Bulgarski Ezik i Literatura-Bulgarian Language and Literature 64, no. 1 (February 9, 2022): 17–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.53656/bel2022-2-tg.
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In the age of the Fin de siècle, the mythological Pan was the subject of numerous interpretations in painting, literature, and the performing arts. The article examines for the first time how the image of Pan fits into the modern Bulgarian literature of the early 20th century - in the works of Emanuil Popdimitrov, Trifon Kunev, Hristo Yassenov and Lyudmil Stoyanov. As an expression of the ideas of the epoch (in the Jugendstil and Secession currents), both in Europe and in Bulgaria, Pan and pantheism apologize for nature, the vegetative principle, youth and childhood, love fire, music and intoxication. The original in the Bulgarian interpretation is the sentimental, sensitive autumn Pan, the parodied Pan / Faun and the old wise man, master of music, and devoid of passion Pan.
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Selvaggi, Caterina. "Pulp Fiction. Il cinema postmoderno di Quentin Tarantino." PSICOBIETTIVO, no. 1 (March 2012): 151–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/psob2012-001011.
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L'Autore analizza "Pulp Fiction" di Tarantino (1994) che č il cineasta piů significativo del gusto post-moderno; la relazione sistemica č protagonista del film e di altri dello stesso autore ed evidenzia come il singolo personaggio non abbia né coerenza né consistenza come individuo a se stante. Lo stile postmoderno č una delle forme culturali piů proprie della cosiddetta "globalizzazione", cioč delle progressiva interdipendenza dei sistemi nel pianeta. Il film racconta 5 storie intrecciate, mettendo in crisi l'ordine causale lineare a favore di una concezione di causalitŕ circolare espressa anche dalla regia stessa. Significativo č anche il gusto della citazione di altri testi e film di culture ed epoche diverse, proprio del postmoderno, e la mescolanza dei vari generi, dal thriller al western al musical ai cartoons" Ma questo gioco di citazioni per Tarantino esprime la condizione di intellegibilitŕ psicologica e culturale di un sistema ormai globale.