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A this discipline course at Arizona Christian University.
Film Scoring teaches the student to write music in the style of Hollywood films and TV programs. The course begins with considerations for visual media, balancing music and dialogue, influencing emotional response, and creating music that elicits location or time period. Specific issues for television include title songs and working with music libraries. Each week focuses on a different genre of film music (romance, sadness, chase, etc.) in terms of harmony, melody, tempo, style, and orchestration. Considerable attention will be focused on analyzing film scores from the biggest composers in Hollywood.
Engage the Course Material
Build a working understanding of film scoring as the course's central subject.
Apply Discipline Methods
Use the methods, vocabulary, and frameworks of the discipline to address course problems.
Connect Course Content
Connect this course's content to broader work in the discipline and related fields.
Demonstrate Course Competencies
Demonstrate the specific competencies the course is designed to develop.
A Biblical Worldview treats music as a craft worth doing well — a way of engaging beauty, skill, and worship with the seriousness any vocation deserves.
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