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Author:Randall D. Larson
Tags: William Darby, Jack Du Bois
Darby, an English professor, and Du Bois, a teacher and opera student, have compiled a well-researched and thoroughly documented treatise on the history and development of American movie music. They analyze, historically, dramatically and musically, major film scores from 1915’s BIRTH OF A NATION through 1986’s TOP GUN...
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Author:Randall D. Larson
Tags: Charles Bernstein
For many years, film composer Charles Bernstein (no relation to Elmer) has been writing a column about the film scoring process for THE SCORE, the quarterly newsletter of the Society of Composers and Lyricists. 30 of those columns have been collected into this slim but compelling volume. Bernstein’s expertise and history give him and edge, of course...
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Author:Randall D. Larson
Tags: Sergio Leone
Christopher Frayling, author of the definitive tome on the magic and mayhem of Italian Western movies, SPAGHETTI WESTERNS, has written this exhaustive, encyclopedic, and thoroughly engrossing first-ever biography of Sergio Leone. Half bio and half analytical appreciation of his work as a cineartiste, Frayling paints an honest portrayal of Leone...
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Author:Doug Raynes
Tags: Christopher Palmer
Christopher Palmer's book is very much a paean to the music from the Golden Age of Hollywood and, as such, is highly recommended. It is aimed at the general reader as well as the enthusiast and is mercifully free of technicalities. It covers similar ground to Tony Thomas' Music for the Movies, which remains the definitive book on the subject.
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Author:Randall D. Larson
Tags: David Morgan
In a pleasing change to the traditional collection of interviews by composer, film journalist David Morgan has collected interviews with 16 film composers and one record producer (Robert Townson of Varese Sarabande) and presented them in a topical format. By addressing the topic this way, Morgan paints an intriguing picture of the art and business of motion picture scoring...
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Author:Randall D. Larson
Tags: Fred Karlin
Like his earlier On the Track: A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring, Fred Karlin’s new book Listening to Movies is one of the most important film music books to be published in recent years. Not a historical overview of film music development, not a collection of composer bio’s...
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Author:Randall D. Larson
Tags: Fred Karlin
This is a book that’s been needed for a long time, and that’s exactly what inspired composer Fred Karlin and music teacher/composer Rayborn Wright to collaborate on this state-of-the-art textbook in the art and science of composing music for motion pictures and television.
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Author:Randall D. Larson
Tags: Henry Mancini
Film music autobiographies are few are far between. Tiomkin’s ‘Please Don’t Hate Me’ and Rozsa’s ‘Double Life’ are the only two that come to mind, both excellent, multi-faceted portraits of their authors and their experiences in the film music arena. Henry Mancini’s ‘Did They Mention the Music?’ - written in collaboration with lyricist and music writer Gene Lees.
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Author:Randall D. Larson
Tags: Jeff Rona
Composer Jeff Rona (WHITE SQUALL, television’s CHICAGO HOPE, PROFILER) has written a practical guide to the art, technology, and business of composing for film and television.
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Author:Jeffrey Dane
Tags: Miklós Rózsa
In this book, the author shares his own remembrances of the composer, the private vignettes he witnessed, specific anecdotes, personal photos, and facsimiles of Rózsa's manuscripts. The author also presents some of the private correspondence between him and the composer over a more than 20-year period...
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