{"id":4383,"date":"2023-02-27T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/?p=4383"},"modified":"2023-09-11T15:55:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T19:55:23","slug":"arachnophonia-drawn-to-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/2023\/02\/arachnophonia-drawn-to-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"Arachnophonia: Drawn to Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> Arachnophonia<\/a> (\u201cArachno\u201d = spider \/ \u201c-phonia\u201d = sound) is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library<\/a>\u2018s collection.<\/p>\n

All links included in these posts will take you to either the library catalog record for the item in question<\/a> or to additional relevant<\/a> information from<\/a> around the web<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s installment of Arachnophonia<\/a> is by student assistant Isaac (class of 2025) and features a collection of essays about music in animated films<\/a>. Thanks, Isaac!<\/em><\/p>\n

Drawn to Sound: Animation Film Music and Sonicity<\/em> edited by Rebecca Coyle<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Drawn<\/p>\n

Animation as a medium is something that has always intrigued me. Inherently having limits differing from traditional film, animation\u2019s visual spectacle sees itself as a source of disagreement. On one end, you have supporters celebrating the composition of the visuals, but on the other, critics viewing it as a commodification of drawing, reserved for children. Regardless of viewpoint, however, is the music in works of animation. Masters of animation music use the medium in conjunction with what is on the screen for an expressive statement. <\/p>\n

This book <\/a>piques my interest for its breakdown of the works of these very artists, auteurs like Hisaishi<\/a> have created works so fitting they have become indelible from what is on the screen. Sublimity is unequivocally achieved because of these scores, I often reflect most heavily on the sounds I heard from an animated feature, extending beyond even the most dogmatic of views on what a film \u201cshould be\u201d. Editor Rebecca Coyle\u2019s shared admiration for the often-ignored musical elements of these songs is something I was delighted to discover, as the focus of animated films are naturally on the animation itself. But this doesn\u2019t mean music in animation should be marginalized, making this book all the more interesting as it is devoted to animation music. Stylistically, music drive themes in film more subtly than dialogue or visuals\u2013\u2013 saturating the viewer in a soundscape is a pivotal role\u2013\u2013 and throughout my life, recognizing the importance for these composers made any film an enriching watching (and listening) experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note: Arachnophonia (\u201cArachno\u201d = spider \/ \u201c-phonia\u201d = sound) is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library\u2018s collection. All links included in these … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61217,15223],"tags":[227204,4394,61217,230861,116544,15310,227203,227200,61230,227202,76065,207054],"class_list":["post-4383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arachnophonia","category-collection","tag-animated-films","tag-animation","tag-arachnophonia","tag-arachnophonia-22-23","tag-essays","tag-film-music","tag-isaac","tag-joe-hisaishi","tag-motion-picture-music","tag-motion-pictures","tag-music-criticism","tag-music-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgMV3E-18H","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4383"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4389,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions\/4389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}