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The Analysis And Interpretation Of Movie Music In John Williams’Star Wars

Posted on:2013-03-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330374467372Subject:Music
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There is almost one-hundred-years history during the development of Movie music. At first, there was musician live accompaniment for a movie and then it was developed into being specialized tailored music composer for a movie. Today’s movie music is different from before. John Williams-the benchmark figure of the film music composer, not only creates a new vision of film music composition, but also brings orchestral film music back to the movie music composition, which makes orchestral become the mainstream of movie soundtrack again until today. The work of "Star Wars" is a landmark in the course of the development of movie music. It not only increases the charm of the movie itself, but also gets rid of the dependence of the movie. It makes the world accept the identity of the independent orchestral works, which is undoubtedly the highest state of movie music.Conductor is the soul of a band, the leadership to show the music work. Conductor’s deep understanding of the works is the key to perfect rendering works. The high degree of profiling works score and the connotation of deep-seated of the work experience are the most important qualities to express.Conductor’s performance of musical works is not only the audio presentation of the works,but also the connotation of the works.This paper analyzes the Star Wars score, and taps the essence of this works, which gradually lays a solid foundation for accurate interpretation of the works. The first chapter introduces a brief history of the development of movie music, which combines the statement of the background that John Williams entered into the field of movie music composition, and analyses the characteristics of the formation of their creation objectively. The second chapter is from the music style, cooperation of music and pictures, and the theme tune three aspects analysis the movie music features of John Williams’"Star Wars". In the third chapter, the author carries out a comprehensive longitudinal analysis, and makes a reasonable interpretation of the score on the creative ideas. The fourth chapter is the interpretation of works of Star Wars with the enthroned guide step by step in which the comprehensive interpretation of the important points is analyzed.The author aims to find the essence of creation and reasonable as well as valid interpretation of movie music through a full range of interpretation of its score.
Keywords/Search Tags:Star Wars, Movie Music, Score Analysis, Music Interpretation
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