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5420
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| Year |
3
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| Semester |
S1
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| ECTS Credits |
6
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| Workload |
OT(15H)/TP(45H)
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| Scientific area |
Cinema
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Mode of delivery |
Face-to-face
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Work placements |
None
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Learning outcomes |
1. Understand the specific parameters and characteristics of musical language.
2. Understand the principles and the role of sound in the context of film music.
3. Promote film musical analysis.
4. Develop the skills and techniques in the creative use of music in the film.
At the end of the course unit students should be able to recognize, classify and relate the main structural elements of listening to music: melody, harmony, meter, timbre and dynamics.
Must be able to make the counterpoint between musical idea and formal idea (language) and visual idea.
Must be able to analyze the use of film music in terms of concept, aesthetics, function and meaning.
Must be able to plan and organize music and sound discourse in audiovisual image.
Must be able to manipulate, adapt and insert music and sound discourse creatively in audiovisual image by digital technology resources.
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Syllabus |
1. Musical parameters
1.1 Melodic: melody, theme, motif, accompaniment, variation
1.2 Harmonics: chord cluster, consonance, dissonance
1.3 Metric: metric, rhythm, symmetry, pulse, agogic
1.4 Timbre: organology, harmonics, envelope
1.5 Dynamic: intensity
2. Sound principles and the role of music in the context of film production
2.1 Diegesis
2.2 Counterpoint audiovisual
2.3 Associative power
2.4 Characterization
2.5 Dramatic emphasis
2.6 Formal Unit
2.7 Absence of sound
3. Musical film analysis
3.1 Historical background
3.2 Genre backgroud
3.3 Aesthetic background
3.4 Functional background
3.5 Authorial background
4. Creative skills and techniques in the use of music in the film
4.1 Planning
4.2 Organization
4.3 Manipulation and treatment
4.4 Cutting and collage
4.5 Synchronization
4.6 Exportation
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Main Bibliography |
1. Main bibliography
BURT, George – The Art of Film Music – Northeastern University, 1994.
CHION, Michel – A Audiovisão: Som e Imagem no Cinema – texto e Grafia, Lisboa 2011.
HICKMAN, Roger – Reel Music: Exploring 100 Years of Fim Music – W. W. Norton & Company, New York 2006.
2. Further bibliography
FONSECA, Nuno - Introdução à Engenharia de Som - FCA – Editora de Informática Lda.
MICHELS, Ulrich – Atlas de Música I – Gradiva, 2003.
MICHELS, Ulrich – Atlas de Música II – Gradiva, 2007.
PRENDERGAST, Roy M. – Film Music – W. W. Norton & Company, 1991.
SONNENSCHEIN, David – Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema- Michael Wiese Productions, 2001.
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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