Hearing Death at the Movies

Film Music and the Long History of the Dies Irae

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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The Dies Irae is a melody that composers of film music have employed in hundreds of films, ranging from Metropolis to The Shining, and Star Wars. Based on a corpus of nearly 300 films, Hearing Death At the Movies models two new ways of thinking about the Dies Irae.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-05-01
Mått148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt461 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor239
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031787942

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Klassisk musik, konstmusik och orkestermusik inom Kultur
Film inom Kultur
Filmmusik, musikaler och teatermusik inom Kultur

Chapter 1: Introduction: The “Other” in Horror; the Dies Irae as “Other”.- Part I: History.- Chapter 2: Making of a Musical Meme: Wendy Carlos & Stanley Kubrick.- Chapter 3: Tracing Film Music’s Most Ubiquitous Melody: Silent Films, Dimitri Tiomkin, and Vampires.- Part II: Theory.- Chapter 4: The Many Guises of Dies Irae: “Prelude to Evil,” “Ominous Echo,” and “Tension Engine”.- Chapter 5: “It Seems to Belong to Civilization”: The Dies Irae in Italy, Camp Crystal Lake, and a Galaxy.- Chapter 6: Afterword: The Ghost Light.