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Twins of Evil: an investigation into the aesthetics of film music

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

David Huckvale
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If you are a movie fan (and who isn't) you may sit in a movie theatre three times a week listening to the symphonic background scores which Hollywood composers concoct. What happens? Your musical tastes become moulded by these scores, heard without knowing it. You see love, and you hear it. Simultaneously. It makes sense. Music suddenly becomes a language for you, without your knowing it. (Thomas 1973, p. 171).

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Research Article
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Popular Music , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , January 1990 , pp. 1 - 35
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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