Meets with F301.  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 to
Film 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.