From Background Music to Above-the-Line Actor: The Rise of the Music Supervisor in Converging Televisual Environments

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Background Music ◽  
Music Supervisor

Film Music from the Perspective of Cognitive Science

2013 ◽  
pp. 95-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annabel J. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Film Music ◽  
Background Music ◽  
Cognitive Perspective

This chapterexamines how the effects of film music on meaning, memory, and the construction of a reality within a film can be addressed or understood from a cognitive scientific perspective. It reviews studies that aim to explain why music is important to film as well as how music functions in film, and it discusses the principles of cognitive science and cognitive perspective. It also considers the Congruence-Associationist Model for understanding filmmusic, which was developed to account for the fact that the attitudes toward three geometric film characters were affected differently by background music.

American Humor in Literature and Politics

1985 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
William Hill ◽  
Dennis Lape
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Background Music ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Literature And Politics ◽  
Strobe Light ◽  
Personal Testimony ◽  
Humor In Literature ◽  
American Humor

The lights dim. The students stir nervously, not sure of what to expect of the strobe light and the background music from "Thriller." The student course guide had recommended American Humor in Literature and Politics, but no one had been able to locate a living survivor to provide a personal testimony. Two middle-aged men of spacious girths enter the room and begin calling the roll. One looks like he might be a Democrat. The other one doesn't. As they alternate calling student names, crack terrible puns, and climb in and out of fright wigs and false noses, it begins to dawn on the class why no Ishmael has stepped forward to tell the story of American Humor.

scholarly journals Comparison of auditory sensations in patients who underwent cataract phacoemulsification surgery in the first and second eye

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Konopińska ◽  
Dorota Ługowska ◽  
Zofia Mariak ◽  
Iwona Obuchowska
Keyword(s):  
Operating Room ◽  
Background Music ◽  
Group I ◽  
Group Ii ◽  
Pleasant Experience

AbstractTo compare subjective auditory sensations of patients during the first and second eye cataract surgeries. Consecutive patients who underwent phacoemulsification of the first eye (group I) and second eye (group II) completed questionnaires designed to evaluate their auditory sensations in the operating room including background music, sound of working equipment, staff conversations, and surgeon’s voice. This study included 124 patients in group I and 76 patients in group II. Patients most often heard nursing staff’s conversations (91.9% and 96%, respectively, p > 0.05), surgeon’s voice (87.9% and 86.8%, respectively, p > 0.05), and music (70.9% and 75%, respectively, p > 0.05). Music was the most pleasant experience (78.2% and 78.9%, respectively, p > 0.05). The sound of the working phacoemulsifier was the most undesirable sound (20.2% and 15.8%, respectively, p > 0.05). Patients in group II more often indicated that none of the sounds required elimination (69.7% and 52.6%, respectively, p = 0.013) or that staff conversations should be eliminated (13.2% and 3.1%, respectively, p = 0.005). The most desirable sounds during phacoemulsification include music and the surgeon’s voice regarding the procedure. The most unpleasant sound was that that of phacoemulsifier. The commonest sounds to be eliminated in groups I and II included those of equipment and staff conversations.

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