Music in Films on the Middle Ages: Authenticity vs. Fantasy

By John Haines

Book Overview

This book explores the role of music in the some five hundred feature-length films on the Middle Ages produced between the late 1890s and the present day. Haines focuses on the tension in these films between the surviving evidence for medieval music and the idiomatic tradition of cinematic music. The latter is taken broadly as any musical sound

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032925272
• ISBN13: 9781032925271
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"