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| 4 Sept |
Seminar
Introduction
§ guidelines, grading, essays, résumés, teams,
presentations
§ discussion of music’s role in defining the
visual |
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| Week 2 |
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| 9 Sept |
Reading.
Claudia Gorbman. 1980. “Narrative Film Music.” In Yale French Studies No. 60: 183-203. [JSTOR] |
| 11 Sept |
Reading.
Semiotics (discussion of Jean Jacques Nattiez theories) |
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| Week 3 |
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| 16 Sept |
Guest: Terence Blanchard discusses his music for Spike
Lee’s films |
| 18 Sept |
Reading.
Kathyrn Kalinak. 1992. "John Williams and 'the Empire' Strike Back: The Eighties and Beyond: Classical Meets Contemporary." In Settling the Score: Music and the Classical Hollywood Film. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. [In Film Music Theory] |
| 20 Sept |
Submit essay via essay page by 3:00 PM. |
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| Week 4 |
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| 23 Sept |
Team 1: Psycho. Alfred Hitchcock (director). Bernard Hermann (music). Released by Paramount
Pictures, 16 June 1960.
Team 2: The Pink Panther. Blake Edwards
(director). Henry Mancini
(music). Released by United Artists, 20 March 1963. |
| 25 Sept |
Team 3: The Graduate. Mike Nichols (director). Paul Simon, Dave Grusin (composers). Released by Embassy Pictures, 15 January 1967.
Team 4: 2001: A Space Odyssey. Stanley Kubrick (director). Patrick Moore (music consultant). Released by MGM,
6 April 1968. |
| 27 Sept |
Submit résumé chronology as Word document. |
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| Week 5 |
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| 30 Sept |
Team 1: Summer of ’42. Robert Mulligan
(director). Michel Legrand (composer). Released by Warner
Brothers, 9 April 1971.
Team 2: Harold and Maude. Hal Ashby (director). Cat Stevens (composer). Paul Samwell-Smith
(music supervisor). Released by Paramount,
20 December 1971. |
| 1 Oct |
Special Event: Julianne Jordan shows work and discusses music and film.
Emerson Auditorium |
| 2 Oct |
Guest: Julianne Jordan ’92 discusses the role of the music supervisor. |
| 4 Oct |
Submit essay via essay page by 3:00 PM. |
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| Week 6 |
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| 7 Oct |
Team 3: Chinatown. Roman Polanski (director). Jerry Goldsmith (composer). Released by Paramount Pictures, 20 June 1974.
Team 4: Jaws. Steven Speilberg (director). John Williams
(composer). Released by Universal
Pictures, 20 June 1975. |
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| 9 Oct |
Yom Kippur |
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| Week 7 |
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| 14 Oct |
Guest: Nate Barr ’95 discusses the
role of the film composer. |
| 15 Oct |
Special Event: Nate Barr shows work and discusses music and film.
Emerson Auditorium |
| 16 Oct |
Debriefing: composing, supervising, and other
hallucinations |
| 18 Oct |
Submit essay via essay page by 3:00 PM. |
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| Week 8 |
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| 21 Oct |
Team 1: The Big Chill. Lawrence Kasden (director). Meg Kasden (music consultant). 105 minutes. Released by Columbia
Pictures, 28 September 1983.
Team 2: Out of Africa. Sydney Pollock (director). John Barry (composer). George W. Senoga-Zake (music consultant). Released by
Universal Pictures, 18 December
1985. |
| 23 Oct |
Team 3: Round Midnight. Bernard Tarvernier (director). Quincy Jones
(composer). Released by Warner
Brothers, 12 September 1986.
Team 4: The Last Emperor. Bernardo Bertolucci,
director. David Byrne, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Cong Su (composers) with Ray
Williams (music supervisor). |
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| Week 9 |
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| 28 Oct |
Team 1: Ghost. Jerry Zucker (director). Maurice Jarre (composer). Released by Paramount Pictures, 13 July 1990.
Team 2: Schindler’s List. Steven Speilberg (director). John Williams
(composer). Released by Universal
Pictures, 15 December 1993. |
| 30 Oct |
Team 3: Titanic. James Cameron (director). James Horner (composer) with John Altman
(music consultant) and Randy Gerston (music
supervisor). Released by Paramount
Pictures, 19 December 1997.
Team 4: Magnolia. Paul Thomas Anderson (director). Jon Brion, Fiona
Apple (composers). Dana Sano (music
supervisor). Released by Ghoulardi Film Company, 1999. |
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| 1 Nov |
Submit essay via essay page by 3:00 PM. |
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| Week 10 |
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| 4 Nov |
Team 1: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Peter Jackson (director). Howard Shore (composer). Released by New Line Cinema, 2001. PN1997.F3 L63 2002
Team 2: The Hours. Stephen Daldry (director). Philip Glass (composer). Released by Paramount Pictures and Miramax Films, 2003. PN1997.D7 H687 2003 |
| 6 Nov |
Team 3: Finding Neverland. Marc Foster (director). Jan A.P. Kaczmarek (music). Released by Miramax Films, 2004. PN1997.B4 F56 2005
Team 4: Brokeback Mountain. Ang Lee (director).
Gustavo Santaolalla (music). Released by Focus Features and Paramount Pictures, 2005. PN1997.D7 B765 2006 |
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| Week 11 |
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| 11 Nov |
Private résumé and paper discussions, 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM |
| 13 Nov |
Private résumé and paper discussions, 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM |
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| Week 12 |
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| 18 Nov |
Present Paper Topics (8 minutes each)
| | Ashleigh Linkenheimer
Chris Limoli
Dani Vidali
David Folman
Erin Anderson
Jaimie Falzone
Jonathan Drucker
Kevin Strang
Lucas Brode
Lucas Sanoff |
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| 20 Nov |
Present Paper Topics (8 minutes each)| |
Luke Santy
Lyle Divinsky
Michal Comite
Nicholas Curcio
Nicholas Misani
Sam DeVries
Sheray Michel
Tadge McWilliams
Ginny Prenot
Zach Matheson |
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| 22 Nov |
Submit final version of résumé via email by 3:00
PM. |
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| Week 13 |
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| 25 Nov |
Private paper discussions, 11:30
AM to 3:00 PM |
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| Week 14 |
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| 2 Dec |
Student Presentations 1 (15 minutes presentation + 5 minutes for discussion/setup)
| | Ashleigh Linkenheimer
Chris Limoli
David Folman |
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| 4 Dec |
Student Presentations 2 (15 minutes presentation + 5 minutes for discussion/setup)| |
Erin Anderson
Jaimie Falzone
Jonathan Drucker
Kevin Strang |
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| Week 15 |
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| 9 Dec |
Student Presentations 3 (15 minutes presentation + 5 minutes for discussion/setup)| |
Lucas Brode
Lucas Sanoff
Luke Santy
Lyle Divinsky |
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| Final |
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| 15 Dec |
Student Presentations 4 (15 minutes presentation + 5 minutes for discussion/setup)| |
Dan Vidali
Michal Comite
Nicholas Curcio
Nicholas Misani
Sam DeVries
Sheray Michel
Tadge McWilliams
Ginny Prenot
Zach Matheson
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| 19 Dec |
Written papers submitted as email attachments. |