Erich Wolfgang Korngold's The Adventures of Robin Hood

Erich Wolfgang Korngold's The Adventures of Robin Hood

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  • Author: Ben Winters
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN: 9780810858886
  • Category : Music
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 204

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 Last Prodigy

The Last Prodigy

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  • Author: Brendan G. Carroll
  • Publisher:
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  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 472

This first full-length biography chronicles Korngold's life and works from his days as a celebrated Wunderkind in imperial Vienna, through his spectacular career as a composer of opera and symphonic works, to his escape from and Nazis to America, where he pioneered the symphonic film score and won two Oscars. The author provides a richly detailed evaluation of the composer, his relationship with the Serialists, his contribution to film music, and his place in music history. The book draws on interviews with many great musicians, singers, actors, writers, and directors, plus legendary figures from Hollywood's golden age, all of whom knew and worked with Korngold. A foreword by the composer's eldest son Ernst Korngold, a comprehensive discography and bibliography, rare illustrations, and a complete list of Korngold's works make this the definitive biography of a remarkable composer.


Korngold and His World

Korngold and His World

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  • Author: Daniel Goldmark
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • ISBN: 0691198292
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 352

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) was the last compositional prodigy to emerge from the Austro-German tradition of Mozart and Mendelssohn. He was lauded in his youth by everyone from Mahler to Puccini and his auspicious career in the early 1900s spanned chamber music, opera, and musical theater. Today, he is best known for his Hollywood film scores, composed between 1935 and 1947.


Dead City

Dead City

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  • Author: Erich Wolfgang Korngold
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  • Category : Operas
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 108


Die Tote Stadt = The Dead City

Die Tote Stadt = The Dead City

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  • Author: Erich Wolfgang Korngold
  • Publisher: Legare Street Press
  • ISBN: 9781015945951
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

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Forbidden Music

Forbidden Music

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  • Author: Michael Haas
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • ISBN: 0300154313
  • Category : Music
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 505

DIV With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Because Jewish musicians and composers were, by 1933, the principal conveyors of Germany’s historic traditions and the ideals of German culture, the isolation, exile and persecution of Jewish musicians by the Nazis became an act of musical self-mutilation. Michael Haas looks at the actual contribution of Jewish composers in Germany and Austria before 1933, at their increasingly precarious position in Nazi Europe, their forced emigration before and during the war, their ambivalent relationships with their countries of refuge, such as Britain and the United States and their contributions within the radically changed post-war music environment. /div


The Sound of Cinema

The Sound of Cinema

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  • Author: Sean Wilson
  • Publisher: McFarland
  • ISBN: 1476687579
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 276

While some film scores crash through theater speakers to claim their place in memory, others are more unassuming. Either way, a film's score is integral to successful world building. This book lifts the curtain on the elusive yet thrilling art form, examining the birth of the Hollywood film score, its turbulent evolution throughout the decades and the multidimensional challenges to musicians that lie ahead. The history of the film score is illuminated by extraordinary talents (like John Williams, Hans Zimmer and countless others). Beginning with vaudeville and silent cinema, chapters explore the wonders of early pioneers like Max Steiner and Bernard Herrmann, and continue through the careers of other soundtrack titans. Leading Hollywood film composers offer in this book fascinating perspectives on the art of film music composition, its ongoing relevance and its astonishing ability to enhance a filmmaker's vision.


Robin Hood

Robin Hood

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  • Author: Henry Gilbert
  • Publisher: DigiCat
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 174

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Robin Hood" by Henry Gilbert. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.


Music and Mythmaking in Film

Music and Mythmaking in Film

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  • Author: Timothy E. Scheurer
  • Publisher: McFarland
  • ISBN: 0786431903
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 275

This work studies the conventions of music scoring in major film genres (e.g., science fiction, hardboiled detective, horror, historical romance, western), focusing on the artistic and technical methods that modern composers employ to underscore and accompany the visual events. Each chapter begins with an analysis of the major narrative and scoring conventions of a particular genre and concludes with an in-depth analysis of two film examples from different time periods. Several photographic stills and sheet music excerpts are included throughout the work, along with a select bibliography and discography.


Military Chaplains' Review

Military Chaplains' Review

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  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 564