| Popis: |
SEVERAL years ago I was invited by a university to teach a course in musical composition for films. I declined the offer saying that composition is composition and that I felt such a course would be better taught under the aegis of the Business Administration Department. My reply to this invitation was only half-facetious for, in functional music media, there are in fact no special compositional techniques to be learned. Nevertheless, such composition depends on a unique combination of aesthetic-musicaldramaturgical considerations which may be of interest to discuss here. By functional music I mean music written not primarily for performance alone, but specifically for literary-image media over which the composer has no control (unlike, for example, opera). Since this field is so vast and complex that a full treatment is impossible within a comparatively short space, I shall limit myself to a discussion of music for films, as it is practiced, and as it possibly should be practiced, in the United States. |
