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The Soundtrack (Putting Music in Its Place).

Deutsch, S., 2007. The Soundtrack (Putting Music in Its Place). The Soundtrack, 1 (1), 3-13.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/st.1.1.3_2

DOI: 10.1386/st.1.1.3_2

Abstract

There are currently many books and journals on film music in print, most of which describe music as a separate activity from film, applied to images most often at the very end of the production process by composers normally resident outside the filmic world. This article endeavours to modify this practice by placing music within the larger notion of “the soundtrack”. This new model assumes that irrespective of industrial determinants, the soundtrack is perceived by an audience as such a unity; that music, dialogue, effects and atmospheres are heard as interdependent layers in the sonification of the film. We often can identify the individual sonic elements when they appear, but we are more aware of the blending they produce when sounding together, much as we are when we hear an orchestra.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:1751-4193
Additional Information:This article will appear in The Soundtrack eds Deutsch, Sider and Power, published by Intellect Books 2008
Uncontrolled Keywords:soundtrack taxonomy
Group:Faculty of Media & Communication
ID Code:1307
Deposited By:INVALID USER
Deposited On:10 Dec 2007
Last Modified:14 Mar 2022 13:07

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