Music for the Movies

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Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-10-01
Publisher(s): Silman-James Pr
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Summary

"Music for the Movies is the one book that should be in the library of anyone interested in learning about this art of the twentieth century". -- Elmer Bernstein

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
WHAT'S THE SCORE?
1(40)
Fred Karlin on the Mechanics of Scoring Pictures
16(15)
William Alwyn on the Aesthetics of Scoring Pictures
31(10)
THE GOLDEN DAYS
41(36)
Herbert Stothart
46(4)
Victor Young
50(7)
John Green
57(8)
Alfred Newman
65(12)
THE MITTEL-EUROPA STRAIN
77(60)
Dimitri Tiomkin
78(14)
Franz Waxman
92(11)
Bronislau Kaper
103(11)
Miklos Rozsa
114(23)
THEMES FROM THE VIENNA WOODS
137(48)
Max Steiner
141(19)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
160(25)
THE PRICE OF EXCELLENCE
185(36)
Bernard Herrmann
186(9)
Hugo Friedhofer
195(15)
David Raksin
210(11)
AMERICANA TO THE FORE
221(46)
George Antheil
223(6)
Virgil Thomson
229(4)
Aaron Copland
233(6)
Alex North
239(10)
Elmer Bernstein
249(13)
George Duning
262(5)
HENRY MANCINI AND OTHERS
267(34)
Leonard Rosenman
277(7)
Jerry Goldsmith
284(8)
Lalo Schifrin
292(9)
MORE RECENTLY
301
John Scott
303(5)
David Shire
308(7)
Bruce Broughton
315(7)
Basil Poledouris
322

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