Conference by Mr. André VAN OEKEL: The Presence of Music in Cinema
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Mr. Van OEKEL holds a master's degree and an aggregation in classical philology and musicology as well as a master's degree in communication from the Catholic University of Louvain. He also attended as a French-speaking representative the European Ancient Music Seminar at the College of Europe in Bruges, under the direction of Safford Cape for three summer sessions of three weeks each. He published, in the Dictionary of Belgian Composers from the year 1000 to the end of the 20th century edited by Thierry LEVEAUX, 240 entries on the Middle Ages and the 15th century, 12 dossiers on composers in supplements to the newspaper Le soir and, in 2023, in collaboration with Dr. CLEMENS a book entitled Mozart, un autre regard, published by Editions du Panthéon in Paris with a preface by José Van Dam. Music was associated with the history of cinema from the very beginning: it illustrated what appeared on screen during the silent cinema era, also helping to cover the disturbing noise of projectors. Immediately, composers were solicited and some understood well that a new niche was opening up for musical creation and they successfully ventured in. With the arrival of sound cinema, the nature and function of music evolved: its evocative and expressive power as well. It became one of the elements at the filmmaker's disposal. Unlike opera, music is not predominant in cinema: it is one of the elements of the soundtrack, on the same level as noises and voices. Music can be an object or subject of a film, in which case its presence is obviously more prevalent. But anyway, in cinema, music participates in the action and often acts unconsciously on the viewer. Finally, as Maurice JAUBERT, the father of French film music, explained, it is good if film music can bring "something extra" to the history of music.
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Conference on 20/3/2025, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., Eugène Ysaÿe Hall, Place des Chasseurs ardennais in 6700 ARLON.
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Administration communale d'Arlon
Rue Paul Reuter 8
6700 Arlon
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