[ecrea] New Book: Film in Concert - Film Scores and their Relation to Classical Concert Music

Stoppe, Sebastian (Ed.):
Film in Concert: Film Scores and their Relation to Classical Concert Music

vwh Verlag Werner Hülsbusch: Glückstadt, 2014.
210 pp.
ISBN 978-3864880605

> From the very beginning of cinema, music always played an important
role in the history of filmmaking. Nonetheless, film music is judged by
critics as a kind of low-grade art form. However, the majority of film
score composers enjoyed a classical education and composed as well for
the silver screen as for the concert hall. Film music also has its roots
in the musical era of romanticism. Therefore, symphonic film scores can
be regarded as program music in a broader sense. These scores were
influenced by a motion picture instead of a poem, a landscape, or a
painting. It is neither necessary nor supposed that film music must be
subordinate to its belonging film. In fact, a well-written film score
may enhance the impact of a film by using its own language—the language
of music.

Film music is still not truly recognized as an own style of music which
is to be performed regularly in a concert hall. There are still strong
prejudices about film music—too nice, too industrial, full of clichés,
and unworthy to be performed live by an orchestra. This book wants to
explore the nature of film music and its relation to classical music.
How is film music perceived today? Does film music have its place on its
own—uncoupled from its original film—in the concert hall? And how does
film music relate to other musical genres in the 19th and 20th century?

With contributions by Emilio Audissino, Marco Cosci, Kristjan Järvi,
Irena Paulus, Gene Pritsker, Jaume Radigales, Lorenzo Sorbo, Sebastian
Stoppe, and Pascal Vandelanoitte.

Available now from the publisher or Amazon:
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Contents:
http://www.sebastian-stoppe.de/wp-content/uploads/filminconcert.pdf

About the editor:
Sebastian Stoppe is a research associate at the Research Academy of the
University of Leipzig, Germany, and a film author specialized on music
documentaries.

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Sebastian Stoppe, M.A.
Research Associate / Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Universität Leipzig
Kompetenzschule ELSYS an der Research Academy Leipzig
Burgstr. 21
04109 Leipzig
Germany

Phone: +49 341 97-37188
Fax: +49 341 97-32353
(sebastian.stoppe /at/ uni-leipzig.de)
www.kompetenzschule.uni-leipzig.de

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