The music for "Victory at sea" : Richard Rodgers, Robert Russell Bennett, and the making of a TV masterpiece /

"Victory at Sea, NBC-TV's innovative 1952-53 WWII documentary, was eventually broadcast to more than 100 million viewers worldwide. Its episodes chronicled the war's conflicts while highlighting the US Navy's contributions, NBC having sourced footage from the military, government...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ferencz, George Joseph (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2023.
Colección:Eastman studies in music.
Temas:
Rodgers, Richard, > 1902-1979. > Victory at sea.
Bennett, Robert Russell, > 1894-1981.
Bennett, Robert Russell, > 1894-1981
Victory at sea (Television program)
Victory at sea (Rodgers, Richard)
1939-1945
Television music > United States > History and criticism.
World War, 1939-1945 > Television and the war.
Télévision, Musique de > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Télévision et guerre.
Television music
War and television
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part one: Victory's inception, production, and impact. Henry Salomon, NBC, the U.S. Navy and Victory's genesis ; Assembling Victory's production team, preparing an episode ; Victory's debut season : sponsorship (or not?), promotion, scheduling, and awards ; Richard Rodgers : twelve themes for Victory, the "thirteen hour score" legend and two breakout hits ; Robert Russell Bennett : preparing for Victory, music for a global war, and the importance of F# ; The NBC Symphony-and Victory's 1952-1953 recording sessions ; The Victory scripts' poetics ; Robert Montgomery, C.S. Forester, and Victory ; Victory on records : the commercial and "house" LPs ; Victory abridged : for film (1954) and television (1960) ; Victory's predecessors and successors
  • Part two: The twenty-six Victory episodes. Introduction ; EP1, "Design for war" ; EP2, "The Pacific boils over" ; EP3, "Sealing the breach" ; EP4, "Midway is east" ; EP5, "Mediterranean mosaic" ; EP6, "Guadalcanal" ; EP7, "Rings around Rabaul" ; EP8, "Mare nostrum" ; E9, "Sea and sand" ; EP10, "Beneath the Southern Cross" ; EP11, "The magnetic north" ; EP12, "The conquest of Micronesia" ; EP13, "Melanesian nightmare" ; EP14, "Roman renaissance" ; EP15, "D-Day" ; EP16, "Killers and the killed" ; EP17, "The turkey shoot" ; EP18, "Two if by sea" ; EP19, "Battle of Leyte Gulf" ; EP20, "Return of the allies" ; EP21, "Full fathom five" ; EP22, "The fate of Europe" ; EP23, "Target Suribachi" ; EP24, "The road to Mandalay" ; EP25, "Suicide for glory" ; EP26, "Design for peace" ; Postscript
  • Appendix one: Robert Russell Bennett : a grandson's Victory remembrance
  • Appendix two : Victory at sea : a chronology
  • Appendix three : Digest of Victory's music-scoring statistics
  • Appendix four : sample shot list (EP26)
  • Appendix five : The 1959 companion book.

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