‘Dancing to the Music of Time. Hollywood Melodrama and the Retrospective Prolepsis’ Seminar
- Time:
- 15:15
- Date:
- 27 November 2012
- Venue:
- Room 1083 Music, Building 2 Highfield Campus University of Southampton SO17 1BJ
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Dr Florian Scheding at F.Scheding@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Part of the Music Research Seminar Series
The paper will look at a particular figure of moving music from the narration of a film into its storyworld, exemplified by scenes from 'Far from Heaven', 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' and Douglas Sirk melodramas, and consider the idea of ‘retrospective prolepses’ in leitmotivic film scores more generally.
Speaker information
Guido Heldt , Bristol University. Senior Lecturer in Music, Head of Education