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- Title
Whose Classical Music? Reflections on Film Adaptation.
- Authors
Kramer, Lawrence
- Abstract
When adapted for use in commercial cinema, classical music may be thought to convey one set of meanings to aficionados and another to a general audience not familiar with the music or its genres. Drawing on an unlikely source, a theoretical essay in art history written during the 1920s by Erwin Panofsky, this essay suggests that such a duality is only apparent, even at the level of fine musical detail. 'Expert' and 'inexpert' accounts of the use of a Chopin Prelude in the film romance The Notebook exemplify the point. The accounts do differ importantly, but they draw together through their interpretive relationship to the film's verbal and narrative environment.
- Subjects
ESSAYS; MUSIC; FILM adaptations; NOTEBOOK, The (Film); CHOPIN, Frederic, 1810-1849
- Publication
Word & Music Studies, 2007, Vol 9, p227
- ISSN
1566-0958
- Publication type
Essay