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## Abstract In composer biopics, listening to music is as important a feature as composing and performing; it fulfils a multitude of narrative functions and deeply affects the films’ ideological construction of music. The chapter discusses twenty-six scenes from sixteen biopics about “classical” composers to map typical (and some untypical) ways of intradiegetic listening to music, differentiating between types of listeners (“general listeners,” mostly in concert settings; listeners with a personal relationship to the protagonists; other musicians as expert witnesses; the composers themselves) and different narrative functions and structures, such as different types of focalization. It also discusses basic features of the relationship between the extrafictional listening of audiences in the cinema to such intradiegetic listeners, as a springboard for further study of listening in musician biopics.

Author

Guido Heldt

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190853624

Subjects

Music, History, Arts