Instructor: Prof. Roger A. Kendall, Ph.D. Office hours: T 2:00 |
Teaching Assistant: Office hours: TR 2-3:30 or by appointment |
Course Description
This course explores music in film, animation, and dance through the lens of cognitive psychology. The focus is on the interpretation of film music relative to a model of musical meaning. Therefore, the course has little emphasis on experimental psychology content and technique, and should be considered a special category of music literature course based on the field of systematic musicology. This is not a history of film or history of music course, and examples are not presented in chronological order. However, the context, including era, composer, and relationships among examples, is important. A main objective of this course is to develop in the student a sharply-honed critical listening/viewing capability |