Analysing Musical Multimedia

About this book

This book is the first to put forward a general theory of the manner in which different media--music words moving picture and dance--work together to create multimedia. Beginning with a study of the way in which meaning is mediated in television commercials the book concludes with in-depth readings of Disneys Fantasia Madonnas video Material Girl and Armide (Godards sequence from the collaborative film Aria). Analysing Musical Multimedia not only shows how approaches deriving from music theory can contribute to the understanding of multimedia but also seeks to draw conclusions from the practice and further development of musical analysis.