Max Steiner's contribution to the formulation of early Hollywood
scoring techniques is significant, particularly through his music
for "King Kong" (1933) and "The Informer" (1935). The Academy Award
winning score for "Now, Voyager "reflects the maturation of the
composer's understanding of the dramatic function of music in film.
The primary resources incorporated in the analysis include, from
the Max Steiner collection at Brigham Young University, Steiner's
letters and scrapbooks and his unpublished autobiography "Notes to
You." In addition to contributing to the composer's own perspective
on the music for this film and on scoring practice in general,
these papers contribute to a broader debate about how films are
interpreted and the part music plays in these schemes of criticism.
This study of the film score occurs within the broader theoretical
and historical debates currently characterizing film musicology and
explores, from varied perspectives, how the score is meaningful and
important to the film.
Devoted to a single score, this study brings together for
analysis all the contingent factors in the score's creation, use,
and reception and will appeal to film music scholars and to
scholars of music and of film. The scope of the analysis will also
interest scholars involved in music in multi-disciplinary art
forms, feminist musicologists and film scholars, and students of
musical theater. Separate chapters discuss Steiner's musical
background, his technique of film scoring, historical and critical
contexts of the film, the music and its context, and an analysis of
the score. Musical examples illustrate the text and an appendix of
selected film scores by Steiner is included along with a selected
bibliography.
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