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Jakie dźwięki powinny towarzyszyć wizycie psa w muzeum? Wokół muzyki w serialu animowanym Reksio oraz jej twórcy

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Babulewicz K.

Kwartalnik Młodych Muzykologów UJ

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2014

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issue 4(23)

21-45

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The article concerns the issue of music in the cult, Polish Reksio series that was produced in the years 1967–1990 by Studio Filmow Rysunkowych in Bielsko-Biala. It is a brief summary of the thesis on which the article was based (Katarzyna Babulewicz, Zenon Kowalowski’s Film Scores for the Selected Parts of the seria ‘Reksio’, Cracow 2013). The main area of interest is the form of music and its diverse features and functions. Because this issue has not been a subject of any scientific publication so far, the author began her studies from the very beginning, from the interview with the composer Zenon Kowalowski and a visit to the Studio Filmow Rysunkowych in Bielsko-Biala. Detailed analysis of the music are based on videos and on scores (which have been kindly shared by SFR). This article is divided into four parts. The first part contains a brief biography of the composer’s art. The second part is a collection of different types of information (working method for film music, its features and the composer’s memories and anecdotes associated with the production of the series), which were collected during the interview. The third part is a detailed author’s analysis of the one movie from the series (the details of solutions specified by the composer have been indicated). The fourth part is an attempt to determine the common characteristics of music throughout the series. Contained proposals also include two other movies, where detailed analysis is in that thesis. During the study of the music the author has found features that had been specified by the composer himself and the set of other regularities, especially the original meaning assigned to specific instruments, articulation, form, and texture, as well as the most common ways of expressing certain emotions and moods.

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Muzyka w filmie Ewangelia wg św. Mateusza Piera Paola Pasoliniego

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Okołowicz J.

Kwartalnik Młodych Muzykologów UJ

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2015

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issue 3 (26)

4-22

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The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) was the third film made by an Italian intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini. After many scandals and court trials which concerned seditious character of his earlier shortmovie La ricotta (making part of Ro.Go.Pa.G., 1963), he decided to dedicate his new film to the history of Christ, choosing the text of The Gospel According to St. Matthew, naming it the one which in the best way represents the human nature of Christ and his „being a man among men”. The film he made is an interesting work of art because of many reasons: it was filmed in the area of the South of Italy, it’s maintained in the neorealism aesthetics, and thanks to the actors who starred in the film (one of the Apostles was played by Giorgio Agamben, an Italian philosopher, Jesus was played by a Spanish student, a strong follower of communism and Mary was played by Pasolini’s own mother – Susanna). Nevertheless, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, among other Pasolini’s film, has the most complex and refined soundtrack list, because, this time, the music is the element which plays the major role in the film, being the factor of the stylistic contamination he applied in his works. The story of Christ is portrayed by unusual music choices such as Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child by Odetta Williams, Gloria from the Kongo mass Missa Luba, Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky and others. Thus, it is important to have a closer look at the film’s music, and by decoding the intertextual figures such as quotations and allusions, try to understand its narrative symbolism and hidden, autobiographical motives created by Pasolini.

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Muzyczny eklektyzm w trzech etiudach Romana Polańskiego. Rozbijemy zabawę, Lampa i Gdy spadają anioły

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Pomostowski P.

Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication

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2017

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vol. 20

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issue 29

301-311

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Author of the article, juxtaposing together three studies school of Roman Polanski, discusses the functions of music used in each of them. Due to the fact that the entire work the author of the Pianist’s is characterized by musical eclecticism – which is the main thesis of the article – it is proposed to look at the film music of early Polanski films, and to try to find a specific lineage of this eclecticism. Break Up the Dance, Lamp and When Angels Fall titles, which in the light filmic and musicological investigations differ from each other. Do not change the fact that each of these works “signs” that the director – the creator of not only the visual layer, but also (not forgetting the work of the composer) sound. In his early work Roman Polanski begins to create a kind of “range of methods” in relation to functions of music in the work of the film. The article is an attempt to systematize them and to find the film and the music key.

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Musical eclecticism in three etudes by Roman Polanski. Break Up the Dance, Lamp and When Angels Fall Author of the article, juxtaposing together three studies school of Roman Polanski, discusses the functions of music used in each of them. Due to the fact that the entire work the author of the Pianist’s is characterized by musical eclecticism – which is the main thesis of the article – it is proposed to look at the film music of early Polanski films, and to try to find a specific lineage of this eclecticism. Break Up the Dance, Lamp and When Angels Fall titles, which in the light filmic and musicological investigations differ from each other. Do not change the fact that each of these works “signs” that the director – the creator of not only the visual layer, but also (not forgetting the work of the composer) sound. In his early work Roman Polanski begins to create a kind of “range of methods” in relation to functions of music in the work of the film. The article is an attempt to systematize them and to find the film and the music key.

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,,BIERZESZ CZTERY LUB PIĘĆ NUT, JEDNĄ WYRZUCASZ, JEDNĄ PRZESUWASZ…”, czyli temat główny z Gwiezdnych wojen i Marsz imperialny jako standardy muzyki filmowej oraz ich wpływ na kulturę popularną

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SKORUPSKI P.

Historia@Teoria

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2018

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vol. 1

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issue 7

119-125

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Każdy ma swoje zapachy, smaki, zdjęcia, które są związane z nami w konkretnych sytuacjach. Podobnie jest z muzyką i melodiami. Większość z nas może nucić „Ode to Joy”, „Für Elise” lub… „Imperial March” z „Gwiezdnych wojen”. Jaka jest najsilniejsza jakość muzyki z tej sagi? Dynamizm? Prostota? A może ton instrumentów? Spróbuję znaleźć powód.

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Zdjęcia z tego zdjęcia są i są z nim związane. Wies jest z muzyką i melodiami. Większość z nas może nucić „Oda do radości”, „Für Elise” lub… „Imperial March” z „Gwiezdnych wojen”. Jaka jest najsilniejsza jakość muzyki z tej sagi? Dynamizm? Prostota? A może ton instrumentów? Spróbuję znaleźć powód.

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Cinema and popular music, a multifold relationship. The cases ofEnnio Morricone and David Lynch

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Martinelli D.

Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology

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2015

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issue 14

162-174

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The aim of this article is to discuss the complexity of the relationship between popular music and cinema. Since its very birth, cinema has established a solid collaboration with music. When films had no sound, music (back then played live) had the crucial role of creating moods, underlining specific sequences, and in general making speech not too missed. When sound appeared, musicals became immediately a dominant genre (and a rich source for business: cinema halls themselves, but also music-sheets and recordings). Shortly after, the subtle art of film music developed, granting - to film and music histories alike - some of the finest composers of the whole 20th century (Bernard Hermann, Nino Rota, John Williams, Ennio Morricone...), or allowing great composers and musicians in their own right, to deliver some of their best works in form of soundtrack (Miles Davis” Lift to the Scaffold or Duke Ellington’s Anatomy of a Murder, just to focus on jazz only). Whether film music must be considered a form of ’serious“ or ’popular' music is still source of debate, and definitely not in the scopes of the present essay. Instead, the point I wish to make here is that, regardless of its nature, the interaction between cinema and popular music is made of literally dozens of possible combinations, making this relationship one of the most interesting among the many existing within an art, cinema, which makes of multimediality and multimodality its primary strength (let alone identity: up to the point that a good portion of the early years of film studies were spent in deciding whether, after all, cinema could be considered an art of its own, or simply a combination of pre-existing arts). The analysis will proceed in a rather linear manner, by simply taking two case-studies: Ennio Morricone, a most celebrated film composer, and David Lynch, a cult-director who has established a strong bond with popular music in his cinematography. Perhaps unexpectedly, the case of Morricone will be only in part employed to discuss his scores for the likes of Leone or Pasolini: more attention will bedevoted to his not-so-well known (at least outside Italy) activity as pop songwriter and arranger. When it comes to Lynch, instead, the analysis will try to cover more or less all his interests in popular music, including his long-lasting professional collaboration (and personal friendship) with composer Angelo Badalamenti.

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The Blockbuster Biopic Bohemian Rhapsody as an Expression of Cinema / Music Synergy

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Radošinská J., Rusňáková L., Točená Z., Schwarz M.

Communication Today

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2023

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vol. 14

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issue 1

4-21

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The study focuses on Bohemian Rhapsody (2018, directed by Bryan Singer, later Dexter Fletcher), the biographical drama that reflects on the extraordinary lives and career patterns of the four members of the rock band Queen, predominantly the band’s frontman, Freddie Mercury. Given the fact that this feature film has changed the way we perceive the economic potential of biopics entirely, we offer an overview of some of the reasons why it was so successful in terms of the globalised film industry. The main objective of the study is to outline the biographical drama’s synergistic tendency in relation to the movie industry and the music business. Acknowledging Bohemian Rhapsody’s unprecedented global success, we work with the assumption that certain biographical dramas can, in fact, become globally popular, partly thanks to the fact that they utilise music as a nostalgia-driven narrative tool making portrayals of musicians deeper and more complex. The assumption is addressed via a theoretical reflection on the given topic and through a qualitative content analysis of the biographical drama Bohemian Rhapsody.

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