Analysing Musical Multimedia

by Cook, Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9780198165897
• ISBN10: 0198165897
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-07-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book is the first to put forward a general theory of the manner in which different media--music, words, moving picture, and dance--work together to create multimedia. Beginning with a study of the way in which meaning is mediated in television commercials, the book concludes with in-depth readings of Disney's Fantasia, Madonna's video Material Girl, and Armide (Godard's sequence from the collaborative film Aria). Analysing Musical Multimedia not only shows how approaches deriving from music theory can contribute to the understanding of multimedia, but also seeks to draw conclusions from the practice and further development of musical analysis.

Table of Contents

PART I	3	(130)
Introduction: Music and Meaning in the Commercials	3	(21)
Fantasy and Reality	9	(7)
Structure and Process	16	(4)
Multimedia and Meaning: A Preliminary Sketch	20	(4)
1 Synaesthesia and Similarity	24	(33)
The Colour Hearing of Olivier Messiaen	29	(5)
Skriabin's Colour Hearing and Prometheus	34	(7)
Schoenberg's Die gluckliche Hand	41	(8)
Eisenstein's Critique	49	(8)
2 Multimedia as Metaphor	57	(41)
Eisler's Error	57	(9)
The Metaphor Model	66	(9)
Similarity and Difference	75	(7)
Emergence	82	(4)
Multimedia and Meaning	86	(12)
3 Models of Multimedia	98	(35)
Three Basic Models	98	(9)
Primacy and Expression Theory	107	(9)
The Seeds of Conflict	116	(10)
Multimedia and Autonomy	126	(7)
PART II	133	(128)
Introduction: Steps towards Analysis	133	(14)
Some Approaches to Media Pairing	135	(8)
Media Identities	143	(4)
4 Credit Where It's Due: Madonna's Material Girl'	147	(27)
A Musicology of the Image?	147	(4)
Words and Music	151	(7)
Music and Pictures	158	(9)
Pictures, Words, and Performance	167	(4)
In Place of Closure	171	(3)
5 Disney's Dream: The Rite of Spring Sequence from `Fantasia'	174	(41)
A Close Reading	177	(19)
The Rite in Context	196	(19)
6 Reading Film and Rereading opera: From Armide to `Aria'	215	(46)
`Ah! Si la liberte me doit etre ravie'	220	(9)
`Enfin, il est en ma puissance'	229	(14)
Rereading Godard	243	(18)
Conclusion: The Lonely Muse	261	(12)
Index	273