Analysis of the Film Score for the Ball Scene in Cinderella

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10.2991/978-2-38476-452-5_36How to use a DOI?

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Film score; Cinderella; Film scenarios; Disney

Abstract

Over the past several decades, the study of film music has evolved into a vital area of interdisciplinary research, encompassing insights from musicology, media studies, semiotics, and auditory theory. Researchers have increasingly recognized film scores not merely as decorative accompaniments but as narrative devices that shape audience perception, emotional response, and character interpretation. Foundational theories in radical listening — such as Roland Barthes’s distinction between geno-song and pheno-song, Kilburn’s aspectual hearing, strategical uses of silences, and notions such as punctum and studium — have laid the groundwork for analyzing the coded and affective dimensions of musical sound. Building on these frameworks, they foreground the listener’s subjectivity and the influence of social identity, memory, and technology in shaping auditory experience. Despite the growing body of literature, relatively few studies have conducted comparative, multi-dimensional analyses of similar musical scenes. This paper aims to contribute to this field by analyzing the music in the film Cinderella produced by Disney — before, during, and after the scene of the ballroom dance — to investigate how musical elements construct atmosphere, signify character transformation, and communicate underlying ideological values.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zichang Guo
AU  - Jessica Liu
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/07/31
TI  - Analysis of the Film Score for the Ball Scene in Cinderella
BT  - Proceedings of the 2025 4th International Conference on Science Education and Art Appreciation (SEAA 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 287
EP  - 292
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-452-5_36
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-452-5_36
ID  - Guo2025
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