| Unit name | The Classical Hollywood Style: American Film Music 1930 - 1960 |
|---|---|
| Unit code | MUSI20098 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | I/5 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
| Unit director | Dr. Heldt |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of Music |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
When we say that something "sounds like film music", what we think of are scores such as E.W. Korngold's The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) or The Sea Hawk (1940), Franz Waxman's The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Max Steiner's King Kong (1935) or Gone With the Wind (1939), Bernard Herrmann's Hangover Square (1945) or Vertigo (1958), David Raksin's Laura (1944), Hugo Friedhofer's The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) or Mikl�s R�sza's Ben-Hur (1959) - music by (often) European emigr� composers for the big Hollywood studios in their heyday. The unit will look at different aspects of this story: How film production worked in the studio system, how music fitted into this system, what the aesthetic consequences of this system were, how composers adapted symphonic and operatic techniques to film music, and finally at the afterlife of the classical Hollywood style from Star Wars (1977) to Far from Heaven (2002).
