Muzikologija (Jan 2013)

Music as word: Film music - superlibretto?

  • Ćirić Marija

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2298/MUZ1315127C
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2013, no. 15
pp. 127 – 144

Abstract

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The aim of his paper is to prove that film music can be understood as authentic narrative force: film music as word / discourse and its superlibretto status. Superlibretto is the status of music in a film which is constructing its own (aural) reality and is narrating, speaking its own text which creates a wholesome film meaning. The existence of superlibretto is substantiated by fundamental theoretic concepts of film music and practically proven by analyses of examples taken from the opus of Serbian film composer Zoran Simjanović.

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