Course Description
Explores the history and aesthetics of film music. The course relies on three assumptions: 1) that a film's score fundamentally alters the viewer's perception of the film; 2) that the film's images affect the way the viewer hears the music; and 3) that the combination of music and images can have a much greater impact on the viewer than either medium alone.
Athena Title
MUSIC AND FILM
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
The successful student will demonstrate: * an awareness of the role that music plays in the viewer's perception of a film; * understanding of major developments and trends in the history of film music and the influence films have had on cultural development; * ability to compare the Hollywood tradition with other cinematic traditions around the world; * ability to contrast various aesthetic models for scoring films; * ability to write film music critiques and analyses in the language of the discipline.
Topical Outline
1. Silent cinema 2. Hollywood's Golden Age 3. Post-war Hollywood 4. New Hollywood 5. Global highlights 6. Classical music in the cinema
General Education Core
CORE IV: Humanities and the ArtsSyllabus