Erich Wolfgang Korngold's The Adventures of Robin Hood (eBook)

A Film Score Guide

Ben Winters (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2007
200 Seiten
Scarecrow Press (Verlag)
978-1-4616-5843-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Winner of the Academy Award for best dramatic score in 1938, the score for The Adventures of Robin Hood is seen by many as the archetypal accompaniment to a Warner Brothers swashbuckler, and it established the score's composer, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, as one of the leading exponents of film score composition at a formative point in its history. In the newest addition to the Scarecrow Film Score Guides series, author Ben Winters uses manuscript and archival research to challenge preconceived notions about the score's composer and its authorship. Winters examines Korngold's career, his film scoring techniques, and his engagement with the Hollywood studio system; he examines the film's treatment of the Robin Hood legend, its historical and critical contexts, and its place within the swashbuckler genre and the studio's anti-fascist agenda.

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Among the many fine examples of film scores by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), the score for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) stands out the most. Winner of the Academy Award(TM) for best dramatic score in 1938, it is seen by many as the archetypal accompaniment to a Warner Brothers swashbuckler, and it established Korngold as one of the leading exponents of film score composition at a formative point in its history. In Erich Wolfgang Korngold's The Adventures of Robin Hood: A Film Score Guide, author Ben Winters uses manuscript and archival research to challenge preconceived notions about the score's composer and its authorship. In the first two chapters, Winters examines Korngold's career on its own and in relation to the film, including his background in composing concert music and opera, his film scoring techniques, and his engagement with the Hollywood studio system. Chapter three focuses on the Robin Hood film while placing Korngold's music in a larger framework. It examines the film's treatment of the Robin Hood legend, its historical and critical contexts, and its place within the swashbuckler genre and the studio's anti-fascist agenda. While looking closely at the composer's work on this score, chapter four shows sources Korngold used, the music's production process, and the changes the score had undergone. The book concludes with a thematic analysis and reading of the score, identifying the various musical 'voices' that the listener weaves together as he or she experiences the film. This detailed consideration of Korngold's masterpiece will be continually turned to by film and music scholars alike.

Autor

Ben Winters is University Research Fellow in Musicology at City University, London.

Inhalt

Part 1 List of IllustrationsPart 2 Editor's ForewordPart 3 AcknowledgmentsPart 4 Introduction What's in a Title?Part 5 Chapter 1 Korngold and the Studio SystemPart 6 Chapter 2 Korngold's Technique of Scoring FilmsPart 7 Chapter 3 The Historical and Critical Context ofRobin HoodPart 8 Chapter 4 ComposingRobin HoodPart 9 Chapter 5 Analysis and Readings of the ScorePart 10 AppendixPart 11 NotesPart 12 BibliographyPart 13 IndexPart 14 About the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2007
• Reihe/Serie: Film Score Guides
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Singen / Musizieren
• ISBN-10: 1-4616-5843-8 / 1461658438
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4616-5843-6 / 9781461658436