Bollywood Presentation
Transcript: Exists in music, visual art, dance etc Fundamental attributes combine harmoniously Perception Foreground and background Emotions Pressure from audio companies and producers Increase of economy in Bombay film industry Sale of music rights Film publicity on television Music sales indicate interest in the film 6) Loudness Psychological and how much energy an instrument creates The Bombay Hindi Film Song: A Historical Survey •Formula films and playback songs became trademark of Indian commercial films •Rise to individual film stars and beginning of the Indian black market’s financial investment in film industry •Production costs had escalated for stage-set films What is Music? 1) Meter Created by our brains Tones are grouped with one another across time 2) Key Hierarchy of importance that exists between tones in a musical piece Pluralism The Bombay Hindi Film Song: A Historical Survey Fin! Indian cinema allows us to study India from a different and distinct angle of vision It also brings us into the thought-worlds and performance-worlds of other traditional arts too It has evolved into a distinctively Indian mode of entertainment by imaginatively bringing music and dance together What is Music? 2) Rhythm Durations of a series of notes & the way they group together “Alphabet song” The Significance of Film Music 1940s Cinema and Society in India Relationship 1930s India is the second most populous country in the world India is the largest film-producing country in the world, and the movies are seen all over the world Through film we also gain more insight into the complex processes of modernization, nationalism, and freedom for women. The Significance of Film Music 3) Melody Main theme of a musical piece Part that everyone sings along to 4) Harmony Relationships between the pitches of different tones Musical Terms Advanced Musical Terms The Beginnings •Film phonographs and playback machines were beginning to be manufactured in India •Radio Ceylon •1955, Indian films were being purchased on the international film market •Market of Hindi films were growing along with westernization •“Hybrid Music” What is Music? Indian Censor Board – issued strict regulations, such as physical contact, in an effort to reform the film industry Magnetic recording machines, sound tapes, arriflex cameras were introduced What is Music? Long films!!! (2 1/2 – 3 hrs.) Song sequences (at least 40 min.) Style of songs is determined by the genre of a film Cinema and Society in India The Bombay Hindi Film Song: A Historical Survey Cinema and Society in India The Beginnings What is Music The Significance of Film Music The Bombay Hindi Film Song: A Historical Survey The Beginnings The Beginnings 3 forms of films o Art o Middle cinema o Commercial Music = audience Story sitting Rain! Zoobie Doobie (3 Idiots) Advanced Musical Terms Group #1 Readings What is Music? Film songs were short and sung by actors that were also the singers Light classical songs – classical instruments, melodic materials, song forms, and development of a characteristic singing style Technology – microphones were stationary, songs were pre-recorded and actors would lip-sync the lyrics Madan The Significance of Film Music Picturization “Running around the trees” Kuch Na Kaho (Kuch Na Kaho) The Significance of Film Music India is the largest film-producing country in the world The movies are seen all over the world It opens a useful window onto a culture and its study What is Music? Traditions Bearing on Indian Films 7) Reverberation Perception of how distant the source is from us 1940s Raj Kapoor In the early 1900s J.F Madan began to exercise great influence both inside and outside India in film Indian audiences were being exposed to more and more western films This resulted in R.G Torney’s Pundalik which was shown in 1912 It was based on the legend associated with a well known Maharashtran saint and it was hugely popular 5) Timbre Distinguishes when two instruments are playing the same written note The Beginnings Readings Covered Plural society Majority of its people are Hindus (82%) Hindus religious life is centered on the family and caste Hindu means “a person who regards the land from the Indus to the Seas as his fatherland as well as his Holyland” Minorities – Parsis, Jews and Christians Muslims Principal adversary Secularism 1) Pitch Psychological Actual frequency and relative position in the musical scale “Mary Had A Little Lamb” & “Are You Sleeping” The first India film show was held on July 7 1896, after the Lumière brothers introduced cinematography in Paris in 1895 The first Indian to make a film was Harischandra S. Bhatvadekhar, aka Save Dada His first film was called The Wrestlers, and it was produced in 1899 3) Tempo Overall speed or pace of the piece Cinema and Society in India Directed by Mani Ratnam was the most popular in the period 1992 – 1993 Text about nationalism, the power of the state and the future of secularism (Niranjana, 1994) Musical Terms 4)
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