The Cambridge Companion to Film Music

This book is at heart, a collection of essays, from numerous scholars and creative talents, which is concerned with reviewing the broad functions music plays within cinema. The editors’ intentions are to provide readers with an overview of cinematic scores, from the intellectual and creative labour expended in their creation, through the theory underlying their structures along with the many ways in which they can be analysed and interpreted. From the outset, it is abundantly clear that this book’s audience is primarily academic film scholars and musicologists although musicians and composers will likely also glean value from this work. The...