Film Music: A Very Short Introduction

by Kathryn Kalinak

Book Overview

Film music is as old as cinema itself. Years before synchronized sound became the norm, projected moving images were shown to musical accompaniment, whether performed by a lone piano player or a hundred-piece orchestra. Today film music has become its own industry, indispensable to the marketability of movies around the world.

Film Music: A Very Short Introduction is a compact, lucid, and thoroughly engaging overview written by one of the leading...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195370872
• ISBN13: 9780195370874
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.3" x 6.8"