Overtones and undertones: reading film music

Abstract

In this bold, insightful book, film and music scholar and critic Royal S. Brown invites readers not only to 'hear' the film score, but to understand it in relation to what they 'see'. Unlike earlier books, which offered historical, technical, and socio political analysis, "Overtones and Undertones" draws on film, music, and narrative theory to provide the first comprehensive aesthetics of film music.