Soviet Film Music: An Historical SurveyPsychology Press, 1997 - 311 pages In the years 1917 to 1991, despite unfavorable prevailing conditions, there were outstanding achievements in the music created for the cinema in the Soviet Union. Perhaps in no other country was film music associated with so many distinguished composers: Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitry Shostakovich, Isaak Dunayevsky, Georgy Sviridov, Aram Khachaturian, Alfred Schnittke, Nikolai Karetnikov, Edward Artemyev, Edison Denisov, and Sofia Gubaidulina. They were ready to accept film directors' invitations because they considered the cinema to be a perfect laboratory for testing the concepts and themes for future operas, symphonies, oratorios, and other large-scale compositions. A remarkable characteristic of Soviet film music was the appearance of successful director - composer collaborations, such as the famous 'duets' of Eisenstein - Prokofiev, Kozintsev - Shostakovich and Tarkovsky - Artemyev. This fascinating volume is the first attempt at a historical analysis of Soviet film music - a unique and full |
Table des matières
Evolution from the silent to the sound film The duality of music | 13 |
The role of music in creating a mythicised image of socialism | 31 |
The formation of other genres in musical cinema | 49 |
The fortunes of film music in the hard times of the War | 71 |
initial steps towards | 89 |
Music in the postwar cinema of the late forties and early fifties | 115 |
film music of the postStalinist period | 133 |
Change of fortune New means of expression in the language | 145 |
Extending the expressive means of film music A search for | 229 |
film music in the work of Artemyev | 249 |
a change in orientation A transition from | 259 |
Black wave aesthetics and music The crisis of film music under | 273 |
The innovative experiments of Alexander Sokurov and Andrei | 281 |
Notes | 289 |
Filmography | 297 |
Index | 305 |
Song in the cinema of the 60s Crystallization of a monothematic | 151 |
The mixed and chamber types of musical dramaturgy | 157 |
Music by Nadezhda Simonyan and Dmitry Shostakovich in film | 167 |
An upsurge of interest in musical cinema Ways of solving | 185 |
The zenith of musical achievements in the directors cinema of | 193 |
The rise and fall of film music in the period of stagnation | 213 |
Human tragedy as reflected in film music | 221 |
SOURCES OF INFORMATION 135 | 135 |
HOW TO READ THE FINANCIAL PAGES 155 | 155 |
GUIDE TO THE ECONOMY AND THE STOCK MARKET 157 | 157 |
Glossary 161 | 161 |
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