Musical sublime in the film Life of Pi: From Ang Lee''s Cross-cultural Perspective

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 音樂學研究所 === 103 === This paper focuses on the sublime in the film Life of Pi from Ang Lee’s cross-cultural perspective. The sublime has been a popular topic among musicological studies. In most of these studies, the sublime refers to either the feelings aroused by a partic...

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Main Authors: I-Hsiu Cho, 卓奕秀
Other Authors: 王育雯
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2015
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05725617623083001487
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spelling ndltd-TW-103NTU052480042016-11-19T04:09:44Z http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05725617623083001487 Musical sublime in the film Life of Pi: From Ang Lee''s Cross-cultural Perspective 「崇高」在電影音樂中的跨文化作法:李安的《少年Pi的奇幻漂流》 I-Hsiu Cho 卓奕秀 碩士 國立臺灣大學 音樂學研究所 103 This paper focuses on the sublime in the film Life of Pi from Ang Lee’s cross-cultural perspective. The sublime has been a popular topic among musicological studies. In most of these studies, the sublime refers to either the feelings aroused by a particular religion, or the aesthetic value mentioned in Kant’s Critique of Judgment. Their research subjects center on the late eighteenth-century Western repertories, such as works from Handel, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Little has the musical sublime of non-Western music been discussed. In addition, despite growing concerns about film music, few studies have examined the notion of the sublime in film music. Ang Lee’s film, Life of Pi, (Ang Lee, 2012) involves the issues of religion, natural disaster, which are also commonly referred to in discussion of the sublime in Western tradition. However, both the concept and musical signification of the sublime in Life of Pi are distinctly different from the ones discussed so far in the academia. Different from “a process of self-transcendence aroused by reason” (as in the Kantian sublime), Pi’s attitude toward the limitless and the overwhelming power shows “introversion”, “letting go”, and “self-salvation”. Except for mild tempo, the film music uses “stasis chord progression”, “repeated melodies”, and “plagal cadence” to express “introversion” and “letting go”. Through detailed analysis, I try to explore (1) the concept of sublime being presented in Life of Pi (2) the ways of how this concept is connected with the music, sound and intermedia (medias including music/sound, image, synopsis, plots, etc.) interaction in the film (3) the differences between the sublime in Life of Pi and what is hitherto found in the academia. With this multimedia analysis I hope to bring up a discussion of the sublime in film music from a cross- cultural perspective. 王育雯 2015 學位論文 ; thesis 144 zh-TW
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description 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 音樂學研究所 === 103 === This paper focuses on the sublime in the film Life of Pi from Ang Lee’s cross-cultural perspective. The sublime has been a popular topic among musicological studies. In most of these studies, the sublime refers to either the feelings aroused by a particular religion, or the aesthetic value mentioned in Kant’s Critique of Judgment. Their research subjects center on the late eighteenth-century Western repertories, such as works from Handel, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Little has the musical sublime of non-Western music been discussed. In addition, despite growing concerns about film music, few studies have examined the notion of the sublime in film music. Ang Lee’s film, Life of Pi, (Ang Lee, 2012) involves the issues of religion, natural disaster, which are also commonly referred to in discussion of the sublime in Western tradition. However, both the concept and musical signification of the sublime in Life of Pi are distinctly different from the ones discussed so far in the academia. Different from “a process of self-transcendence aroused by reason” (as in the Kantian sublime), Pi’s attitude toward the limitless and the overwhelming power shows “introversion”, “letting go”, and “self-salvation”. Except for mild tempo, the film music uses “stasis chord progression”, “repeated melodies”, and “plagal cadence” to express “introversion” and “letting go”. Through detailed analysis, I try to explore (1) the concept of sublime being presented in Life of Pi (2) the ways of how this concept is connected with the music, sound and intermedia (medias including music/sound, image, synopsis, plots, etc.) interaction in the film (3) the differences between the sublime in Life of Pi and what is hitherto found in the academia. With this multimedia analysis I hope to bring up a discussion of the sublime in film music from a cross- cultural perspective.
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