1st Edition

50 Movie Music Moments

By Vasco Hexel Copyright 2023
304 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

50 Movie Music Moments comprises a wide-ranging collection of analyses of some of the most fascinating uses of music in modern Hollywood cinema. Considering narrative strategies, filmmaking techniques, functions of film music, audience engagement and conditioning, cultural implications, and intertextuality, the case studies gathered here introduce music as a crucial element of film. In 50... Read more

1. Original Score (Bespoke Composed Underscore)  2. Quoted or Adapted Classical Music as Underscore  3. Use or Adaptation of a Pre-Existing Popular Song (diegetic)  4. Use or Adaptation of a Pre-Existing Popular Song (non-diegetic)  5. Use of an Original / Theme Song  6. Outliers

Biography

Vasco Hexel is a composer, author, and educator. He led the Master’s Programme in Composition for Screen at the Royal College of Music, London from 2008 to 2020 and most recently was a visiting lecturer in film music at the University of Cambridge.