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A Lotta Night Music: The Sound of Film Noir

2008; University of Texas Press; Volume: 47; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/cj.2008.0011

1527-2087

Richard R. Ness,

Music History and Culture

Just as 1940s noir films represented a challenge to the security of home and family, their musical scores defied the emphasis on tonality common in classical Hollywood scoring practices. Scores for the nostalgic second noir cycle are characterized by tension between atonal techniques and the return of more melodic elements.