Story-Music / Discourse-Music: Analyzing the Relationship between Placement and Function of Music in Films Available to Purchase

VALERIO SBRAVATTI ([email protected])is an Italian PhD candidate in music and performing arts (cinema studies) at Sapienza University of Rome. His research interests include film sound and film music, sound technology, spatial sound, and auditory cognition. He has published articles and a book (Allegro non troppo. Vedere la musica e ascoltare i disegni, 2015) on sound and music in cinema. His PhD thesis focuses on aesthetical and technological aspects of the spatial dimension of film sound from a cognitive perspective. He studied at Università degli Studi Roma Tre and at the Music conservatory “O. Respighi” of Latina, Italy. He directed some short films, and he works occasionally as a production sound mixer (e.g., Gemma di maggio, 2015). He is also an amateur musician, playing the saxophone and directing the “A. Ponchielli” wind band of Latina.