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William Alwyn : the art of film music /

Ian Johnson's evaluation of Alwyn's film music places his achievement in the context of wider movements within the film industry. William Alwyn was a leading composer of British film music in the 1940s and '50s, a time when the British film industry was at its peak. His scores ranged...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johnson, Ian, 1940-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge : Boydell, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : music in the shadows
  • 1. A new and foreign land
  • 2. Experiment, experiment, and again experiment
  • 3. Enter Mathieson
  • 4. Intoxicating documentary days; first feature
  • 5. An art of persuasion
  • 6. "Pulling together"
  • 7. The people's war
  • 8. Ordinary people
  • 9. The success of the season
  • 10. War's end
  • 11. Reconstruction
  • 12. Launder and Gilliat : soundtrack as art form
  • 13. A big score
  • 14. Outcasts and idioms
  • 15. Pennies from Hollywood
  • 16. Reed again, and Asquith
  • 17. Pellisier, a forgotten talent
  • 18. Kitsch or art?
  • 19. "Choosing my palette"
  • 20. Seeing another meaning
  • 21. Swashbucklers and noir
  • 22. Music and the spoken word
  • 23. Music my task-master
  • 24. I labour on ...
  • 25. And on ...
  • 26. Dark themes
  • 27. Endings
  • 28. Utopian sunset
  • Glossary of musical terms
  • Filmography
  • Discography.