Music and the Moving Image (2025/2026: periode 2)

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Cursusdoel

Purpose of the course is:
  • to obtain a thorough specific knowledge of the history of the movie soundtrack, its aesthetics, its technical development, its theoretical debates;
  • to become skilled in autonomous av analysis of soundtracks, using various theoretical models and methods;
  • to present proof of these skills in written and verbal assessments;
  • to place own research critically into a scholarly discourse.

Vakinhoudelijk

This course is for students in the MA Applied Musicology and RMA Musicology. Students from other MA Programmes should check with the course coordinator before enrolling. This is mandatory. Only via the course coordinator participation can be granted.
The entrance requirements or Exchange Students (sufficient background knowledge and skills in music and/or film analyses) will be checked by International Office and the programme coordinator. You do not have to contact the Programme coordinator by yourself.

Film musicology and trailerology are the central academic fields of this course. Film music is a specific music genre with a history of well over a century. In this course, new research areas will be exploited via lectures, classroom discussion and individual research. Following Neil Lerner (2013), we can argue that: [d]riving the study of music here are the underlying assumptions that music together with screen media (understood broadly to accommodate rapidly developing new technologies) participate in important ways in the creation of meaning and that including music in an analysis opens up the possibility for interpretations that remain invisible when only using the eye.’ Technology, aesthetics and implications of the use of music in cinematic media will be examined, using several film musical theoretical approaches, whereas ideological, historical, social, and performative factors will be incorporated in the debate as well. In this course we follow the discussions, the topics and the paradigm changes, up and including some of the most actual ones. To name a few of the most important that will be addressed in this course: the current attention to the music documentary, for early jazz film formats, improvisation versus meticulously planned film score, silence versus sound, or music accompanying films made in Holland.

In the first part of this course, we will briefly summarize context and content of the most prominent aspects of the use of music within (most importantly) narrative feature film. The seminars focus on historical contexts of film music, and address key facts and analytical concepts, statistics and terminology that are more or less parallel to the aesthetic and technological development of the feature film. Therefore, the first seminars offer a tour d’horizon on technology, aesthetics and implications of film sound and film music, using several theoretical approaches (Breil, Adorno, Eisler, Copland, Prendergast, Gorbman, Chion, Kassabian, Pisani et alt.), that were introduced in the Bachelor track Music and Media. The second part of the course will zoom in on innovative (and/or minimally researched) topics regarding music on screen. The term paper consists of a detailed case study relevant to one of these new topics within the discipline.


Aanvullende informatie

Familiarize yourself with entry requirements!

Werkvormen

Seminar
Toelichting

The course is a seminar with lectures, student presentations and classroom debate.

Bijdrage

When assignments are tackled in groups, each member will need to have a specific and well-defined role in the academic process.

Voorbereiding

The students are obliged to read the texts thoroughly and critically, prepare analyses and present their research results for class discussion.

Toetsing

Paper

Verplicht | Weging 100% | ECTS 5

- Knowledge of the history of the movie sound track, its aesthetics, its technical development, its theoretical debates; skills in autonomous analysis of soundtracks, using various theoretical models - Positioning own research in larger academic debates - Written academic presentation skills

Ingangseisen en voorkennis

Ingangseisen

Je moet inschreven staan voor een van de volgende opleidingen:

  • Arts and Society
  • Applied Musicology
  • Contemporary Theatre, Dance and Dramaturgy
  • Musicology

Voorkennis

For this course, we expect the students to have at least a basic knowledge of music theory, fundamental solfège skills, as well as basic skills in, and knowledge of, audiovisual analysis, including relevant theories (Gorbman, Chion, Kassabian, Cooke, Audissino…).

Voorkennis kan worden opgedaan met

(Components of) the ‘Verdiepingspakket’ Music and Media of the Musicology BA programme can provide students with these requirements.

Voertalen

  • Engels

Cursusmomenten

Gerelateerde studies

Tentamens

Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus

Verplicht materiaal

  • BOEK
    To be announced via course syllabus.
  • ARTIKELEN
    To be announced mostly available via Brightspace.

Aanbevolen materiaal

Er is geen informatie over de aanbevolen literatuur bekend

Coördinator

prof. dr. E.G.J. Wennekes e.wennekes@uu.nl

Docenten

prof. dr. E.G.J. Wennekes e.wennekes@uu.nl

Inschrijving

Deze cursus is open voor bijvakkers. Controleer wel of er aanvullende ingangseisen gelden.

Inschrijving
Van maandag 2 juni 2025 tot en met vrijdag 20 juni 2025

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