Film music often tells us how to feel, but it also guides us how to hear. Filmgoing is an
intensely musical experience, one in which the soundtrack structures our interpretations and …

Cadences are one of the most powerful tools at a film composer's disposal. The structure
and placement of a cadence can shape the emotional arc of a scene, accentuate narratival …

This wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection of specially-commissioned essays
provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of the many and various ways in which music …

This article examines the semantic properties of several characteristic triadic shifts in the film
and ceremonial music of John Williams. These shifts result from particular modal inflections …

Abstract Each December between 2001 and 2003, Tolkien fans and film lovers alike flocked
to theaters to see The Lord of the Rings films. Peter Jackson's interpretation of Tolkien's work …

What does it mean for film music–subordinated, contingent,'unheard'–to be plucked from its
intended context and placed at the forefront of the listener's attention? The tradition of …

The academic assessment of the products of the Walt Disney Company is usually highly
negative, drawing out their sexist, racist, and mercenary factors. Although such views are not …

This article examines the relationship between tonal and narrative structures in film Vertigo. I
argue that this relationship is reciprocal and that Bernard Herrmann's score for the film …

Abstract John Williams's “Imperial March” is one of the most iconic film themes ever written.
Despite its popularity, however, little scholarship exists on the origins of the theme and the …

Mathematical modes of exploring, conceiving, and representing musical phenomena have
fallen in and out of fashion, since the first historical record of the alliance between the two …