Analysing Musical Multimedia is the first study to produce a general theory of how different media - music, words, moving picture, and dance - work together to create multimedia. Beginning with a study of how meaning is mediated in television commercials, Nicholas Cook concludes with in-depth readings of Fantasia, Madonna's video Material Girl, and Armide (Godard's sequence from the collaborative film Aria).
CONTENTS
Foreword
Part I
Introduction to Part 1: Music and Meaning in the Commercials
1 Synaesthesia and Similarity
2 Multimedia as metaphor
3 Models of multimedia
Part 2
Introduction to Part 1: Steps Towards Analysis
4 Credit Where It's Due: Madonna's Material Girl
5 Disney's Dream: The Rite of Spring sequence from Fantasia
6 Reading film and re-reading opera: from Armide to Aria
Conclusion: The Lonely Muse
Index