Meets with F609.  Music has influenced film in the Hollywood as well
as documentary and ethnographic contexts.  This music has simplified,
underscored, and created a counterpoint to the visual images and
action.  The course will explore how various kinds of music have been
created, and how these musics have been interpreted by audiences,
composers, and arrangers.  Films to be viewed and analyzed will be
selected from the period from 19301990.  They will include, among
others, African Queen, La Vie est Belle, Out of Africa, and Quartier
Mozart.
Several short analysis exercises will be assigned. The major project
for the class will be a paper of approximately 25 pages or a website.
Texts:  Royal S. Brown, Overtones and Undertones: Reading Film Music,
1994.
Richard Davis, Complete Guide toFilm Scoring: The Art and Business of
Writing Music for Movies and TV, 1999. Manthia Diawara, African
Cinema: Politics and Culture, 1992. Kenneth W. Harrow, African
Cinema: Postcolonial and Feminist Readings, 1999. Laurence E.
MacDonald, The Invisible Art of Film Music, 1998.