Analysing Musical Multimedia - Couverture rigide

Cook, Nicholas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198165897 ISBN 13 : 9780198165897

Editeur : Clarendon Press, 1998

Synopsis

This is an analysis of the manner in which different media - music, words, moving picture, and dance - work together to created multimedia. Although generally associated with contemporary developments, in particular video and film music, a general theory of musical multimedia also encompasses traditional genres such as song and opera. This book seeks to establish principles, and a terminology for their description, that apply across the whole spectrum of musical multimedia. Beginning with a study of the way in which meaning is mediated in television commercials, the book concludes with in-depth readings of Disney's "Fantasia", Madonna's video "Material Girl", and "Armide" (Godard's sequence from the collaborative film "Aria"). It sets out to show how approaches deriving from music theory can contribute to the understanding of multimedia, but also seeks to draw conclusions from the practice and further development of musical analysis.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Analysing Musical Multimedia is the first study to produce a general theory of how different media - music, words, moving picture, and dance - work together to created multimedia. Though generally associated with contemporary developments, in particular music video and film, a general theory of musical multimedia also encompasses traditional genres such as song and opera. Critical writing in these areas, however, is genre-specific; Nicholas Cook establishes principles, and a terminology for their description, that apply across the whole spectrum of musical multimedia. Beginning with a study of how meaning is mediated in television commercials, Cook concludes with in-depth readings of Fantasia, Madonna's video Material Girl, and Armide (Godard's sequence from the collaborative film Aria). Analysing Musical Multimedia not only shows how approaches deriving from music theory can contribute to the understanding of multimedia, but also draws conclusions from the practice and further development of musical analysis.

Biographie de l'auteur

Nicholas Cook is at University of Southampton.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Clarendon Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198165897
• ISBN 13: 9780198165897
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 292
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible