Magical History Tour – Film Music and Music Film

What significance does music have in film and what functions does it perform? How does the image behave in relation to music and the music to the film as a whole? It is these questions that we are exploring in this month's Magical History Tour. Film music is a great deal more than just the simple background to a plot, capable of establishing or intensifying atmospheres or feelings of confusion, providing clues and creating emphasis, drawing the viewer into the narrative space or simply overwhelming them. We take in the whole spectrum of film music, starting with the classic period (with Hollywood film music and Hans Eisler's film work forming to some extent the two opposing poles here), moving on to examples of innovative film music and how music can be staged in film. Whether in the concert films STOP MAKING SENSE about the band Talking Heads and BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE WIDE BLUE SEA about the electronic music scene or A HARD DAY'S NIGHT'S ironic assessment of Beatlemania, pop music and film have always been closely linked.