Semiotics, pragmatics, and metaphor in film music analysis Chattah, Juan Roque
ISBN: 054265976X
Summary:
This dissertation proposes an interdisciplinary approach that aims to
broaden the music-theoretical strategies employed to analyze film
music by borrowing analytical models from the disciplines of
semiotics and pragmatics. The examination and application of semiotic
and pragmatic models developed by Fauconnier and Turner, Lakoff and
Johnson, and Peirce (among others), is complemented by traditional
music analysis. This interface crystallizes in considerations of
formal design, melodic contour, pitch content, harmonic gestures,
cadential formulas, and other structural aspects of the music. The
repertoire analyzed consists primarily of recent Hollywood film
soundtracks from a wide variety of genres including cartoons,
musicals, and documentaries. The result is an analytical framework
that allows for the recognition of fundamental processes lying at the
very heart of film music interpretation.
Notes:
Advisers: Michael Buchler; Matthew Shaftel.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-04, Section:
A, page: 1140.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 2006.
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