Foreword
Introduction: Film and Music, Theory and Analysis
Frank Lehman
1. Timbre in Film Music – Making Magic through Tone Color
Chelsea Oden
2. “The Click Is Your Friend”: Film Scores and Tempo Analysis
Rebecca M. Doran Eaton
3. Tracking Progressions of Heroic Chord Progressions in Recent Popular Screen Media
Scott Murphy
4. John Williams’ Star Wars Themes: Good vs. Evil Conflicts as a Structural Principal for Leitmotifs
Mark Richards
5. Topic Theory and Film: Coming of Age in 1994’s and 2019’s Little Women
Janet Bourne
6. A Matter of Time: Reality and Fantasy through Metrical Analysis in Contemporary Hollywood Film
Andrew S. Powell
7. Film Music and Dialogic Form
Charity Lofthouse
8. Tonal Analysis of the Integrated Soundtrack: Music, Sound, and Dialogue in Baby Driver
Táhirih Motazedian
9. Analyzing Musical Metamorphoses: Thematic Transformation in Shirley Walker's Batman
Frank Lehman
10. Post-Tonal Theory and Hollywood Scores: Three Analytical Vignettes
Erik Heine
11. Attuning Serialism: David Shire’s Scores for The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, 2010: The Year We Made Contact, and Zodiac
Juan Chattah
12. Romance and the Two Poles of Underscore
James Buhler
Notes on Contributors
Index
Biography
Frank Lehman is Associate Professor of Music at Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA.
