The Composer on Screen : Essays on Classical Music Biopics
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0786499656
ISBN-13
9780786499656
Publisher
McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint
McFarland & Co Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 15th, 2018
Print length
233 Pages
Weight
310 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.30 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
Films, cinemaIndividual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups
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Explores the many and varied ways in which composers have been depicted on the cinema screen. Beginning with some of the very earliest silent films examples, these essays range in subject from the 12th century abbess, Hildegard of Bingen, through the great classical and romantic eras of Verdi, Wagner, Berlioz and Strauss, up to the 20th century, and Elgar, Delius, Gershwin and Blitzstein.
This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which composers have been depicted in film and what audiences have taken away from such depictions. Beginning with some of the earliest silent film examples--including some of the first feature-length "bio-pics" ever produced--these essays range from the 12th century abbess Hildegard of Bingen to the great classical and romantic eras of Verdi, Wagner, Berlioz and Strauss, up to the 20th century''s Elgar, Delius, Gershwin and Blitzstein.
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