Advanced Composition Evaluation

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Advanced Composition Evaluation

James McMillan

BA (Hons) Performing Arts - Music (Performance Pathway)

Tutor: Craig Steer

Module: Advanced Composition

Contents

Film Score 3

Additive Form Piece 5

Jazz Piece 7

Bibliography 9

Appendix 10

Film Score

When Warner Bros. Studios screened 'The Jazz Singer' in 1927 it "opened a new era for the film industry" (P.26, Davis, R. (1999) Complete Guide to Film Scoring, Berklee Press). Although the potential of films set with music had been realised since 1895, "the first documented incidents... of musical accompaniments to film" (P.17, Davis, R. (1999) Complete Guide to Film Scoring, Berklee Press), by the Lumiere family in Paris, it was to be some years before technological advancements allowed music to be recorded, synchronised and distributed with the film.

In 1931 re-recording, and the process known as dubbing were developed, "making the process of including music in films much more flexible and less expensive, and [through] the early 1930s, directors and producers began to accept that the film's underscore was a critical component." (P.27, Davis, R. (1999) Complete Guide to Film Scoring, Berklee Press).

Film composers are often under enormous pressure