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May 04, 2024
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MUS 4700 - History of Film Music
This course traces the history and development of film music through lecture, reading and film viewing/music listening- investigating the process of film scoring and how music and its relationship to film have changed over the last century. The emphasis will be on how different composers, in their unique historical/cultural contexts, contribute to the emotional and psychological subtext of a narrative through music and the musical vocabularies that are part of the scoring for film process.
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Develop specific music listening skills that focus on style and genre which can transfer from film to television to concert hall.
- Evaluate the role that music plays in key scenes in selected film examples.
- Have the ability to explain cultural significance of film, and relate the role of film music to that significance.
- Identify major composers of film music and the films they are associated with.
- Identify the basic characteristics and tendencies of film music from each decade of the 20th century to the present.
- Identify the style parameters and vocabularies of film music, including the role of technology.
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