COURSE CODE: 46714
COURSE TYPE: OPTIONAL
ΕCTS: 5
SEMESTER: 7TH | WINTER
COURSE LANGUAGE: GREEK
SYLLABUS
This course is an introduction to film music and sound, dealing with the relationship between music and the moving images from a historical and analytical perspective. It explores issues such as film music, music in silent and sound cinema (practices, functions, and uses), contemporary theoretical and methodological models for analyzing film music, and the musical-cinematic genres under the prism of the scientific field of film musicology. The course is supported by audio-visual examples and is divided, indicatively, into the following sections:
1 Introduction
2. Cinema and music I: The silent cinema era
3. Cinema and music II: Classical Hollywood
4. Cinema and music III: Popular music in film
5. Cinema and music IV: Contemporary film scoring
6. Film music theory I: The basics
7. Film music theory II: Main representatives
8. Presentation and discussion of interim project
9. Film music analysis Ι: Terminology
10. Film music analysis Ι: Analytical models
11. Film music analysis Ι: Case studies
12. Final project discussion
13. Course overview
ΒIBLIOGRAPHY
- Kalinak, Kathryn. 2006. FilmMusic: AShortIntroduction. Athens: Fagottobooks.
- Poulakis, Nick. 2015. Musicology and Cinema: Critical Approaches to the Music of Modern Greek Films. Athens: Orpheus.