The Best Years of British Film Music, 1936-1958

Name: The Best Years of British Film Music, 1936-1958
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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By Swynnoe, Jan G.

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Jan Swynnoe's study is concerned with the special British contribution to film music, detailing how the idiosyncracies of British film, and of the British character, set it apart from its Hollywood counterpart. She shows how the differences between the two industries in all aspects of film making variously affected composers on both sides of the Atlantic.
In the mid 1930s, when film composers in America were perfecting the formulae of the classical Hollywood score, film music in Britain scarcely existed; within a year or so, however, top British composers were scoring British films. How this transformation was brought about, and how established British concert composers, including Vaughan Williams and Arnold Bax, faced the challenge of the exacting and often bewildering art of scoring for feature film, is vividly described here, and the resulting scores compared with the work of seasoned Hollywood composers. JAN SWYNNOE researched the material on which her book is based over several years, at the same time pursuing her musical life as pianist, percussionist and composer.

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Number of Pages:: 264
Release Date:: 2002-04-01
Publication Date:: 2002-03-28
Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0851158625
ISBN13:: 9780851158624
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 564 g
Height:: 16.1 cm
Width:: 24 cm
Thickness:: 1.9 cm

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