Hollywood Harmony
Book description
Film music often tells us how to feel, but it also guides us how to hear. Hollywood Harmony explores the inner workings of film music, bringing together tools from music theory, musicology, and music psychology. Harmony, and especially chromaticism, is emblematic of what we commonly recognize as film music sound…
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1 author picked Hollywood Harmony as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Lehman brilliantly explores how recent film scores are constructed and why they are so effective in conveying a sense of wonder.
While he goes deeply into music theory (specifically a branch of theory called Neo-Riemannian) it is all lucidly explained and illustrated with score examples. There is also a comprehensive website with recordings of the examples, so you don’t necessarily have to read music to make sense of what Lehman is saying.
This is one of the most ambitious books on film music, as Lehman is trying to come up with a whole analytical system to explain how film music…
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