Product Description 
Film Music: An Introduction in 11 Takes is an introduction to film music that is global in scope as well as practical in outlook, featuring dozens of interviews with film industry insiders. This textbook teaches today's student how to better understand the conventions of film music in a global 
and musical context. 
Film Music's practical approach introduces students to a range of topics; each chapter features a full-length interview with one music professional, discussion of a musical product specific to the chapter's time period (like sheet music or DVD), one composer, one singer, a film 
genre, a musical instrument and two countries outside the United States.\nReview 
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Film Music: An Introduction in 11 Takes presents film music concepts in an accessible manner, using an approachable writing style. The book includes examples from contemporary movies familiar to the majority of students and features important content related to global cinema." - Sergi Casanelles,\nNew York University\n"This book has many compelling features for the film music course. Its listening guides; the structural analyses of key films; and the inclusion of technical aspects of film production and technique are welcome additions to a film music textbook. - Eldonna L. May, 
Wayne State University\nAbout the Author \nJohn Haines is Professor of Music History at the University of Toronto, where he is affiliated with the Faculty of Music, Centre for Medieval Studies and Cinema Studies Institute.

Film Music: An Introduction in 11 Takes

Arts & Photography

Haines, John

Music

Oxford University Press

This book explores the role of music in the some five hundred feature-length films on the Middle Ages produced between the late 1890s and the present day. Haines focuses on the tension in these films between the surviving evidence for medieval music and the idiomatic tradition of cinematic music. The latter is taken broadly as any musical sound occurring in a film, from the clang of a bell off-screen to a minstrel singing his song. Medieval film music must be considered in the broader historical context of pre-cinematic medievalisms and of medievalist cinema’s main development in the course of the twentieth century as an American appropriation of European culture. The book treats six pervasive moments that define the genre of medieval film: the church-tower bell, the trumpet fanfare or horn call, the music of banquets and courts, the singing minstrel, performances of Gregorian chant, and the music that accompanies horse-riding knights, with each chapter visiting representative films as case studies. These six signal musical moments, that create a fundamental visual-aural core central to making a film feel medieval to modern audiences, originate in medievalist works predating cinema by some three centuries.

Music in Films on the Middle Ages: Authenticity vs. Fantasy (Routledge Research in Music)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Routledge

When he was a homesteader in Alaska, poet John Haines moved away from language and institutions to an older and simpler existence. In solitude, listening to his own voice, the events of his life reached into the past and the future. We live on the surface, he discovered. It is the land that makes people. If a poet will see, will feel, will interpret his place and then relate that experience to what he knows of the world at large, he will have a life in imagination, a vitality beyond appearances. John Haines is author of At the End of Summer: Poems 1948-1954; Fables and Distances: New and Selected Essays; and The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer. He received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 1991.

Living Off the Country: Essays on Poetry and Place (Poets On Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

University of Michigan Press

From the medieval chansonniers to contemporary rap renditions, this book traces the changing interpretation of troubadour and trouvère music, a repertoire of songs which have successfully maintained public interest for eight centuries. A study of their reception, therefore, serves to illustrate the development of the modern concept of "medieval music". Important stages in their evolution include sixteenth-century antiquarianism; the Enlightenment synthesis of scholarly and popular traditions; and the infusion of archaeology and philology in the nineteenth century, leading to more recent theories on medieval rhythm.

Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvères: The Changing Identity of Medieval Music (Musical Performance and Reception)

History

Cambridge University Press

John Haines presents a detailed survey of songs performed in Vulgar Latin and early Romance languages from around 500 to 1200. The first part of the book discusses this enormous body of neglected songs according to the categories of lament, love song, epic and devotional song. Medieval sources - mostly condemnations - ranging from sermons to chronicles attest to the long life and popularity of this music performed all throughout this period, and predominantly by women. Performance contexts range from the burial of the dead to the nursing of infants. The study argues for the reinstatement of female vernacular song in the mainstream of medieval music historiography and ends with a discussion of the neglected medieval lullaby. The second part of the book presents an edition and informative commentary of the dozen surviving witnesses with musical notation in the early Romance period prior to 1200.

Medieval Song in Romance Languages

Europe

From the medieval chansonniers to contemporary rap renditions, this book traces the changing interpretation of troubadour and trouvère music, a repertoire of songs which have successfully maintained public interest for eight centuries. A study of their reception, therefore, serves to illustrate the development of the modern concept of "medieval music". Important stages in their evolution include sixteenth-century antiquarianism; the Enlightenment synthesis of scholarly and popular traditions; and the infusion of archaeology and philology in the nineteenth century, leading to more recent theories on medieval rhythm.

1966 1st ed., Wesleyan HARDCOVER, 71pp, 8vo.

Winter News: Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Program)

Poetry

Wesleyan University Press

Poems evoke the beauty and mystery of nature, the sudden recognitions of memory, and the meaning of art

News from the Glacier: Selected Poems, 1960-1980

Poems evoke the beauty and mystery of nature, the sudden recognitions of memory, and the meaning of art

The Last New Land: Stories of Alaska Past and Present

An anthology of Alaskan writing features Native Alaskan legends and tales and the works of authors from Robert W. Service and Jack London to contemporary writers

Reference

Alaska Northwest Books

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Film Music: An Introduction in 11 Takes

Music in Films on the Middle Ages: Authenticity vs. Fantasy (Routledge Research in Music)

Living Off the Country: Essays on Poetry and Place (Poets On Poetry)

Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvères: The Changing Identity of Medieval Music (Musical Performance and Reception)

Medieval Song in Romance Languages

Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvères: The Changing Identity of Medieval Music (Musical Performance and Reception)

Winter News: Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Program)

News from the Glacier: Selected Poems, 1960-1980

News from the Glacier: Selected Poems, 1960-1980

The Last New Land: Stories of Alaska Past and Present