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70 years of passion. 70 years, in which the enthusiasm for sporty
driving, advanced technology and sensual design has created
something very special. Is it a coincidence that more than 70
percent of all Porsche cars ever built are still on the road today?
There can only be one answer when you gather together the
highlights from seven decades of sports car construction - not in a
well-tempered museum, but in the places for which they were
created: road and track. What if you had to get a 918 Spyder to
Germany via the snowbound passes of northern Italy? What would it
be like to rerun the legendary record-breaking lap of the
Nordschleife in Stefan Bellof's 956? Can you bring a 906 to the
Porsche Rennsport Reunion in Laguna Seca under your own steam? This
may sound like a shimmering daydream, but it turns into a tribute
to 70 years of brand history, captured in unparalleled images. Text
in English and German.
This book examines the relationship between narrative film and
reality, as seen through the lens of on-screen classical concert
performance. By investigating these scenes, wherein the performance
of music is foregrounded in the narrative, Winters uncovers how
concert performance reflexively articulates music's importance to
the ontology of film. The book asserts that narrative film of a
variety of aesthetic approaches and traditions is no mere copy of
everyday reality, but constitutes its own filmic reality, and that
the music heard in a film's underscore plays an important role in
distinguishing film reality from the everyday. As a result, concert
scenes are examined as sites for provocative interactions between
these two realities, in which real-world musicians appear in
fictional narratives, and an audience's suspension of disbelief is
problematised. In blurring the musical experiences of onscreen
observers and participants, these concert scenes also allegorize
music's role in creating a shared subjectivity between film
audience and character, and prompt Winters to propose a radically
new vision of music's role in narrative cinema wherein musical
underscore becomes part of a shared audio-visual space that may be
just as accessible to the characters as the music they encounter in
scenes of concert performance.
Book by Ben H Winters, Music & Lyrics by Rick Hip-Flores 4m, 4f
(with doubling) / Children's Musical A boy named Samuel is tired of
his life: It's nothing but rules, rules, and more rules! So when
Sammy meets the Tooth Fairy, and she confesses that she's bored
with her own life and wishes she could be just a regular lady, the
two arrange a swap. Samuel becomes the new Tooth Fairy, and the
Tooth Fairy heads off to make her way in New York City. Soon Samuel
is zipping around the night sky, revolutionizing the tooth biz,
while the Fairy joyfully takes in the glories of the Upper West
Side, and everyone is happy...for a little while. Soon Samuel,
tempted by a scheming Local Newscaster, starts ignoring the rules
of the Tooth Fairy game, and (even worse) decides he's too much of
a big shot for his very best friends Allison. Meanwhile, after a
few brushes (no pun intended) with the hard realities of city
living, The Tooth Fairy is ready to switch back, too. But can it be
that simple? A (Tooth) Fairy Tale is a musical comedy filled with
fairy dust, bright shiny quarters, and maybe just a small molar -
sorry, moral - about being true to who you really are.
This book examines the relationship between narrative film and
reality, as seen through the lens of on-screen classical concert
performance. By investigating these scenes, wherein the performance
of music is foregrounded in the narrative, Winters uncovers how
concert performance reflexively articulates music's importance to
the ontology of film. The book asserts that narrative film of a
variety of aesthetic approaches and traditions is no mere copy of
everyday reality, but constitutes its own filmic reality, and that
the music heard in a film's underscore plays an important role in
distinguishing film reality from the everyday. As a result, concert
scenes are examined as sites for provocative interactions between
these two realities, in which real-world musicians appear in
fictional narratives, and an audience's suspension of disbelief is
problematised. In blurring the musical experiences of onscreen
observers and participants, these concert scenes also allegorize
music's role in creating a shared subjectivity between film
audience and character, and prompt Winters to propose a radically
new vision of music's role in narrative cinema wherein musical
underscore becomes part of a shared audio-visual space that may be
just as accessible to the characters as the music they encounter in
scenes of concert performance.
In his 1985 book The Idea of Music: Schoenberg and Others, Peter
Franklin set out a challenge for musicology: namely, how best to
talk and write about the music of modern European culture that fell
outside of the modernist mainstream typified by Schoenberg, Berg,
and Webern? Thirty years on, this collected volume of essays by
Franklin's students and colleagues returns to that challenge and
the vibrant intellectual field that has since developed. Moving
freely between insights into opera, Volksoper, film, festival, and
choral movement, and from the very earliest years of the twentieth
century up to the 1980s, its authors listen with a 'critical ear':
they site these musical phenomena within a wider web of modern
cultural practices - a perspective, in turn, that enables them to
exercise a disciplinary self-awareness after Franklin's manner.
The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound provides a
detailed and comprehensive overview of screen music and sound
studies, addressing the ways in which music and sound interact with
forms of narrative media such as television, videogames, and film.
The inclusive framework of "screen music and sound" allows readers
to explore the intersections and connections between various types
of media and music and sound, reflecting the current state of
scholarship and the future of the field. A diverse range of
international scholars have contributed an impressive set of
forty-six chapters that move from foundational knowledge to cutting
edge topics that highlight new key areas. The companion is
thematically organized into five cohesive areas of study: Issues in
the Study of Screen Music and Sound-discusses the essential topics
of the discipline Historical Approaches-examines periods of
historical change or transition Production and Process-focuses on
issues of collaboration, institutional politics, and the impact of
technology and industrial practices Cultural and Aesthetic
Perspectives-contextualizes an aesthetic approach within a wider
framework of cultural knowledge Analyses and Methodologies-explores
potential methodologies for interrogating screen music and sound
Covering a wide range of topic areas drawn from musicology, sound
studies, and media studies, The Routledge Companion to Screen Music
and Sound provides researchers and students with an effective
overview of music's role in narrative media, as well as new
methodological and aesthetic insights.
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.
The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound provides a
detailed and comprehensive overview of screen music and sound
studies, addressing the ways in which music and sound interact with
forms of narrative media such as television, videogames, and film.
The inclusive framework of "screen music and sound" allows readers
to explore the intersections and connections between various types
of media and music and sound, reflecting the current state of
scholarship and the future of the field. A diverse range of
international scholars have contributed an impressive set of
forty-six chapters that move from foundational knowledge to cutting
edge topics that highlight new key areas. The companion is
thematically organized into five cohesive areas of study: Issues in
the Study of Screen Music and Sound-discusses the essential topics
of the discipline Historical Approaches-examines periods of
historical change or transition Production and Process-focuses on
issues of collaboration, institutional politics, and the impact of
technology and industrial practices Cultural and Aesthetic
Perspectives-contextualizes an aesthetic approach within a wider
framework of cultural knowledge Analyses and Methodologies-explores
potential methodologies for interrogating screen music and sound
Covering a wide range of topic areas drawn from musicology, sound
studies, and media studies, The Routledge Companion to Screen Music
and Sound provides researchers and students with an effective
overview of music's role in narrative media, as well as new
methodological and aesthetic insights.
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