Analysing Musical Multimedia - Hardcover

Cook, Nicholas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198165897 ISBN 13: 9780198165897

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1998

Synopsis

This book is the first to put forward a general theory of the manner in which different media--music, words, moving picture, and dance--work together to create multimedia. Beginning with a study of the way in which meaning is mediated in television commercials, the book concludes with in-depth readings of Disney's Fantasia, Madonna's video Material Girl, and Armide (Godard's sequence from the collaborative film Aria). Analysing Musical Multimedia not only shows how approaches deriving from music theory can contribute to the understanding of multimedia, but also seeks to draw conclusions from the practice and further development of musical analysis.

About this title

About the Author

Nicholas Cook, Professor of Music and Dean of Arts, University of Southampton.

Review

`Cook's interpretations are all provocative, and thoroughly worthy of consideration ... Cook adopts a generally didactic tone and an easy authoritativeness ... there is plenty of evidence in his occasional asides that we are reading someone to whom the act of perceiving 'musical multimedia' is
intensely important ... as befits a book on multimedia, the resulting feeling is one of elegant synthesis.'
Allan F. Moore, Music and Letters

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0198165897
• ISBN 13: 9780198165897
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 292