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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 August 2025
- ISBN 9780197684788
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 235x157x15 mm
- Weight 431 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 45 music examples, 24 photos 700
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Short description:
Korngold in America offers new ways of listening to Viennese composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold's scores to Warner Bros. films, exploring their relationship with his wider compositional output. Drawing on previously unpublished archival materials, the book provides a complete picture of Korngold's film-scoring activities and dismantles many of the myths about the composer. It argues for a reassessment of Korngold, and for a newfound significance for his film scores in twentieth-century music history.
MoreLong description:
Korngold in America offers new ways of listening to the film scores and post-Hollywood concert works of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897--1957), a Viennese-raised Austro-Hungarian composer who left Europe for Hollywood in the mid-1930s to write for Warner Bros. It reassesses Korngold's place in twentieth-century music historiography and dismantles many of the myths that have obscured a proper understanding of his work.
Drawing on previously unpublished archival materials, Korngold in America reveals Korngold's commercial and artistic relationships with studio processes and staff, highlights aspects of his compositional practice, and traces the way in which he adapted his skills as a musical dramatist and experienced opera composer to the demands of film. The book presents a more complete picture of Korngold's artistry than has hitherto been possible, showing both the important role played by his music in the Hollywood films of which it is a part and the importance in turn of Hollywood films for his compositional identity. In so doing, it challenges assumptions about the relationship between Korngold's film scores and his works for the concert hall and opera house in ways that draw attention to the significance of Hollywood for histories of twentieth-century music.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Composer in Transition?
1. Korngold and the Hollywood Studio System: A Productive Working Relationship
2. A Musician for Hire: Korngold's Contracts with Warner Bros.
3. A Hollywood Compositional Toolbox
4. Korngold, the Hollywood Dramatist
5. Korngold, Materiality, and Worldbuilding
6. Korngold Between Two Worlds: Hollywood and the Concert Hall
7: Korngold's Hollywood Legacy: the Purer Realm of Phantasy
Bibliography
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