Analysing Musical Multimedia
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (683 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0198167377 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Moore, Music and Letters . `Cook's interpretations are all provocative, and thoroughly worthy of consideration Cook adopts a generally didactic tone and an easy authoritativeness there is plenty of evidence in his occasional asides that we are reading someone to whom the act of perceiving 'musical multimedia' is intensely important as befits a book on multimedia, the resulting feeling is one of elegant synthesis.' Allan F
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.. 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)
Nicholas Cook is at University of Southampton.
Constructing Meaning Through Song What is the role of music in advertising? When the music swells as a mother cradles her dying child in a film is it the music of the moment which captures our attention and emotions? These are the type of questions dealt with by Nicholas Cook in this intriguing journey into music's role in multimedia.For something to be a medium does not mean that it is 'just' a medium. Cook rightly asserts that "the idea that anything can be 'just' a medium has . "Insightful theory of multimedia" according to M. Stevens. This book provides original multimedia theory while at the same time being easier to understand than much academic writing. If you are studying multimedia, or just deeply interested in the topic, it is well worth reading.