Analysing musical multimedia
Analysing musical multimedia

Nicholas Cook (author)

Discipline: Music Analysis

Category: Other

Type: Theory / Methods, Analytical studies

Puts forward a general theory of the manner in which different media—music, words, moving images, and dance—work together to create multimedia, and offers a descriptive terminology that encompasses both traditional genres (such as song and opera) and such contemporary ones as film, music video, and television commercials. Includes in-depth readings of the Rite of spring sequence from Disney’s Fantasia, Madonna’s Material girl video, and Godard’s Armide sequence from the collaborative film Aria.

Keywords: multimedia, pop culture, transversality

Publication languageEnglish
Publication place (country)United Kingdom
Publication place (city)Oxford
Publication year1998
Used by (country)BELGIUM
Used by (city)BRUSSELS
Identifier 01-9816589-7

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