This chapter addresses the transformations of the musical clichés related to horror films through the 20th century. The discourse uses as a reference two particular musical features – dissonance and ambiguity- and studies how these are used as a basis for different musical formulas in films such as Nosferatu, Psycho and The Fly. In-between the study of the films, a short historical digression shows how the origins of the formulas based on dissonance and ambiguity can be put in relation with musical practices from the Baroque to the 19th century.
I Fear What I Hear. The Expression of Horror in Film Music
BELLANO M.
2011
Abstract
This chapter addresses the transformations of the musical clichés related to horror films through the 20th century. The discourse uses as a reference two particular musical features – dissonance and ambiguity- and studies how these are used as a basis for different musical formulas in films such as Nosferatu, Psycho and The Fly. In-between the study of the films, a short historical digression shows how the origins of the formulas based on dissonance and ambiguity can be put in relation with musical practices from the Baroque to the 19th century.File in questo prodotto:
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