The Term “Film Music” against the Background of the Research on Music Preferences of Czech University Students to Artificial Music of the First Two-Thirds of the 20th Century
The Term “Film Music” against the Background of the Research on Music Preferences of Czech University Students to Artificial Music of the First Two-Thirds of the 20th Century

Author(s): Ondřej Musil
Subject(s): Music, Recent History (1900 till today), Higher Education , Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: music preferences; 20th century music; film music; classical music; music research; audio questionnaire;
Summary/Abstract: The introduction of this contribution is focused on a classification of film music and its theoretical, aesthetical and general artistic bases. The main part of the paper deals with partial results of a research on the music preferences conducted by the Department of Music at the Faculty of Education at Masaryk University. Concretely, it was an analysis of free answers given from the respondents, who did an assessment of chosen music samples in an audio questionnaire, where representatives of the „neo-styles“ as well as the avant-garde turned up. Many answers referred to parallels between classical and film music. On basis of the results some possible reasons was set out, that might be responsible for the mentioned similarities. All is followed with music samples from both areas of music production, purposefully chosen in order to compare similar ways of composing.

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