{"product_id":"designing-music-for-emotion-a-practical-guide-for-film-and-media-composers-and-enthusiasts-9798334233706","title":"Designing Music for Emotion: A Practical Guide for Film and Media Composers and Enthusiasts","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Carlos Amador\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Instruction \u0026amp; Study - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI would describe the book as a wonderful thesaurus of musical techniques to elicit the ultimate emotional responses to creating or listening to music\"\u003cbr\u003eJay Chattaway (EMI award winning Hollywood composer, \"Star Trek TV Series\", \"Maniac\") \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDesigning Music for Emotion\u003c\/b\u003e guides aspiring film and media composers in creating music that evokes emotions such as happiness, sadness, love, anxiety, suspense, mystery, fear, triumph, awe, and frisson. Additionally, it aims to deepen music enthusiasts' understanding of how music elicits these emotional responses. While professional composers often rely on intuition refined through imitation and extensive trial and error, this book delves into applying evolutionary, associative, and psychological principles to define systematic approaches for composing emotional music. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the past three years, Carlos Amador has researched systematic approaches to distil the emotional impact of film music. His work aims to help composers evoke various emotions while maintaining their unique voice. This book presents a wealth of techniques and includes over 65 music reductions with free audio links (plus a 42-song Spotify playlist), These methods have been refined through research on Carlos's compositions for \u003ci\u003eEyes of Love\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eSintel\u003c\/i\u003e rescore (full orchestral scores are part of the book series). Supported by survey data, it demonstrates the effectiveness of these methods in evoking targeted emotions, providing practical tools for creating emotionally impactful music.\u003cp\u003eLearn the principles and technique to: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElicit emotions of happiness, sadness, love, anger, fear, suspense, mystery, anxiety, awe, wonder, frisson, triumph and many many more...\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesign musical emotional contours for your stories and films.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrigger biological emotional responses through music.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLearn the associative meaning of scales \u0026amp; harmony, metaphors and anaphones.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCraft memorable melodies and leitmotifs as well as powerful ostinatos.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElicit emotions through psychological principles.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaster the go-to Hollywood musical idiom: pantriadic chromaticism.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplore the emotional impact of texture, orchestration and instrumentation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe efficacy of these techniques is backed up by a large-scale survey.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eJoin the book Facebook Group https: \/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/g\/1MV64Nt4s9\/?mibextid=wwXIfr","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45563899478167,"sku":"9798334233706","price":3230.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798334233706.webp?v=1768599693","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/designing-music-for-emotion-a-practical-guide-for-film-and-media-composers-and-enthusiasts-9798334233706","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}