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"Although Georges Auric (1899-1983) is best remembered today for his affiliation with the Groupe des Six, his musical career was long, productive, complex, and intimately attuned to the realities of modern life. His polyvalent career-as a composer of concert, theatrical, ballet, popular, film, and television music; music critic; opera director; and arts administrator-reveals a diversity of engagements that speak to a reconfiguration of the role of the composer in the modern world. Auric was a product of his time, with deep connections to France's artistic, social, and political elites. At the same time, he drew on his prestige and privilege to improve the country's musical life in tangible ways, whether with regard to musical education and access or to the establishment of fair copyright laws. He took artistic collaboration, already a hallmark of the short-lived Groupe des Six, to a level that surpassed any of the other members of that group. Diverging from the romantic trope of individual creation, Auric's legacy troubles conventional ideas of what it means to be a "composer.""--

Composers --- Music --- Motion picture music --- History and criticism --- Attitudes. --- Auric, Georges,

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The Routledge Film Music Source Book is an annotated, thematically organized collection of approximately eighty source readings pertaining to film music dating from its beginnings to the present, from the US and other select countries around the globe. The documents represent a wide variety of music-related issues that were heatedly debated during cinema’s early decades and which by and large remain of concern today. Each document is prefaced by a brief introduction that gives details on both the author and the particular issue at hand. Also, each group of documents is prefaced by a longer introduction that puts into historical context the collective information and opinions that follow. The organizational scheme is at the same time chronological and thematic in a pattern that alternates between aestehetic and practical considerations.

Motion pictures and music. --- Cinéma et musique.