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New capitalization on old music: approaches to the use of Verdi's music in TV advertisements
DownloadSpring 2011
Advertisers use music in as much as 90% of television commercials. Classical and opera music play a special role in this medium, as classical music carries with it any number of already established inferences and meanings that may then be altered by the images in the commercial, or imparted upon...
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Fall 2011
Rachel Portman is a successful female film score composer known for her rich orchestral scores, many for films that can be classified as women's films. Portman has collaborated on several films with the Chinese-American film director Wayne Wang who in many of his films has explored the issues of...
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Fall 2013
This thesis examines the implications of musical genre for American songwriter Tom Waits’ 1985 studio album Rain Dogs. A discussion of recording artists and composers of the twentieth century that influenced Waits at this time serves to identify the multiple styles within which he writes and...