1st Edition
Music in Films on the Middle Ages Authenticity vs. Fantasy
By John Haines
Copyright 2014
248 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 occurring in a film, from the clang of a bell... Read more
Preface 1. The Making of the Middle Ages 2. The Bell 3. The Trumpet Fanfare and the Horn Call 4. Banquet and Court Music 5. The Singing Minstrel 6. Chant 7. The Riding Warrior 8. Conclusion References Filmography
Biography
John Haines is Professor of Music History and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Haines’s stimulating and elegantly written study may well convince a few more individuals of the merits of researching the historical basis of film music. It presents a persuasive, richly detailed, and thoughtful exploration of the tropes of cinematic music."
- Lisa Colton, University of Huddersfield
