Scoring the screen : the secret language of film music /
Today, musical composition for films is more popular than ever. In professional and academic spheres, media music study and practice are growing; undergraduate and postgraduate programs in media scoring are offered by dozens of major colleges and universities. And increasingly, pop and contemporary...
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Milwaukee, WI :
Hal Leonard Books,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- A word on how to use this book
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword: The greatest gig in the world
- Introduction: Ancient & modern: an appreciation of James Newton Howard's The sixth sense
- From among the dead: Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo
- Boo Radley's porch: Elmer Bernstein's To kill a mockingbird
- Signs and meaning: From Spellbound to Inception
- Perfume: The scent of murder
- Carmen in hell: David Newman's The war of the roses
- Waltz for a dead girl: Christopher Young's Jennifer 8
- Feed your head: Don Davis's The matrix
- Such a long, long way to fall: Danny Elfman's Alice in Wonderland
- Surgical precision: Alberto Iglesias's La piel que habito
- The strength of the righteous: Ennio Morricone's The untouchables
- Toward a new aesthetic of music for the screen
- Through a glass, and darkly: Anatomy of a cue from Jerry Goldsmith's Patton
- Stand up! Two cues from Elliot Goldenthal's Michael Collins
- John Powell slays a dragon
- Against the odds: The road to Kraków
- Afterword.
