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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: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: 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:Randall D. Larson
Tags: John Cacavas
Film composer John Cacavas, who has composed the music for 15 feature films, 70 TV-movies and more than 600 one-hour TV episodes, contributes a career’s worth of experience and knowledge in this excellent book on music writing.
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Author:Doug Raynes
Tags: Kathryn Kalinak
The traditional Hollywood score, discussed by Kathryn Kalinak in her studious but readable book, as typified by Max Steiner, Erich Korngold, Alfred Newman, Miklos Rozsa and others, is arguably the perfect way to score a film. Regardless of the subject, any film made today could benefit from such a score. Kalinak praises the golden age of film scoring...
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Author:Randall D. Larson
Tags: Steven C. Smith
A current and comprehensive reference book about film and composers has long been overdue, and Smith’s thorough guide will be a treasure trove for film music aficionados as well as movie makers or researchers seeking to contact film composers...
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