Baroque Music in Post-War Cinema: Performance Practice and Musical Style

The study explores the use of Baroque music in post-war cinema, examining how it has been mobilized through various revivals and how it has shaped musical fashion. It also raises questions about the baroque musical style and form in film and considers pastiches and parodies, as well as the role of neobaroque music in more recent films.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 75 pages
\n Publication date: 04 March 2021
\n Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Studies of pre-existing music in narrative cinema often focus on a single film, composer, or director. Here, a broader perspective is adopted, placing a specific musical repertoire, Baroque music, in the context of its reception to explore its mobilization in post-war cinema. It demonstrates how various revivals have shaped musical fashion, and how cinema has drawn on resultant popularity and, in turn, contributed to it. Close analyses of various films raise issues of Baroque musical style and form to question why eighteenth-century music remains an exception to dominant film-music discourses. Account is taken of changing modern performance practice and its manifestation in cinema, particularly in the biopic. This question of the reimagining of Baroque repertoire leads to consideration of pastiches and parodies to which cinema has been particularly drawn, and subsequently to the role that neobaroque music has played in more recent films.

Studies of pre-existing music in narrative cinema often focus on a single film, composer, or director. Here, a broader perspective is adopted, placing a specific musical repertoire, Baroque music, in the context of its reception to explore its mobilization in post-war cinema. It demonstrates how various revivals have shaped musical fashion, and how cinema has drawn on resultant popularity and, in turn, contributed to it. Close analyses of various films raise issues of Baroque musical style and form to question why eighteenth-century music remains an exception to dominant film-music discourses. Account is taken of changing modern performance practice and its manifestation in cinema, particularly in the biopic. This question of the reimagining of Baroque repertoire leads to consideration of pastiches and parodies to which cinema has been particularly drawn, and subsequently to the role that neobaroque music has played in more recent films.

\n Weight: 146g\n
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 8 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781108827867\n \n