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Cooke, Mervyn - The Hollywood Film Music Reader
Catalogue No: 9780195331189
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This wide-ranging, stimulating, and entertaining anthology of writings about the experiences of composers working in the high-pressure environment of the US film industry from the silent era to the present day includes both vivid first-hand accounts from the composers themselves and a representative selection of contemporaneous criticism and commentary.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
From 'Silents' to Sound
1. Max Winkler: 'The Origins of Film Music'
2. T. Scott Buhrman: 'Photoplays De Luxe'
3. Erno Rapee: 'Musical Accompaniment to the Feature Picture'
4. An Interview with Gaylord Carter, 'Dean of Theater Organists'
5. Leonid Sabaneev: 'The Composition of Music for the Cinema'
II Film Composers in Their Own Words
6. Max Steiner: 'Scoring the Film'
7. David Raksin: 'Life With Charlie'
8. Aaron Copland: 'Our New Music'
9. Ingolf Dahl: 'Notes on Cartoon Music'
10. Scott Bradley: 'Personality on the Soundtrack'
11. Conversations with Carl Stalling
12. Dimitri Tiomkin: 'Please Don't Hate Me!'
13. A Radio Interview with Franz Waxman
14. Gail Kubik: 'Music in Documentary Films'
15. Adolph Deutsch on Three Strangers
16. Miklos Rozsa on Quo Vadis
17. Andre Previn: 'No Minor Chords'
18. Henry Mancini: 'Did They Mention the Music?'
19. Bernard Herrmann: A Lecture on Film Music
20. A Conversation with Jerry Goldsmith
21. John Williams and Star Wars
22. Thomas Newman on his Film Music
III Critics and Commentators
23. George Antheil: 'I Am Not a Businessman'
24. Igor Stravinsky on Film Music
25. David Raksin: 'Hollywood Strikes Back'
26. Theodor Adorno and Hanns Eisler: 'Composing for the Films'
27. Frederick W. Sternfeld on Hugo Friedhofer's The Best Years of Our Lives
28. Aaron Copland in the Film Studio
29. Lawrence Morton: 'Composing, Orchestrating, and Criticizing'
30. Elmer Bernstein: 'Film Composers vs. The Studios'
31. Sidney Lumet: A Director's Viewpoint
Credits
Index
CONTENTS
IllustrationsAcknowledgements
Introduction
From 'Silents' to Sound
1. Max Winkler: 'The Origins of Film Music'
2. T. Scott Buhrman: 'Photoplays De Luxe'
3. Erno Rapee: 'Musical Accompaniment to the Feature Picture'
4. An Interview with Gaylord Carter, 'Dean of Theater Organists'
5. Leonid Sabaneev: 'The Composition of Music for the Cinema'
II Film Composers in Their Own Words
6. Max Steiner: 'Scoring the Film'
7. David Raksin: 'Life With Charlie'
8. Aaron Copland: 'Our New Music'
9. Ingolf Dahl: 'Notes on Cartoon Music'
10. Scott Bradley: 'Personality on the Soundtrack'
11. Conversations with Carl Stalling
12. Dimitri Tiomkin: 'Please Don't Hate Me!'
13. A Radio Interview with Franz Waxman
14. Gail Kubik: 'Music in Documentary Films'
15. Adolph Deutsch on Three Strangers
16. Miklos Rozsa on Quo Vadis
17. Andre Previn: 'No Minor Chords'
18. Henry Mancini: 'Did They Mention the Music?'
19. Bernard Herrmann: A Lecture on Film Music
20. A Conversation with Jerry Goldsmith
21. John Williams and Star Wars
22. Thomas Newman on his Film Music
III Critics and Commentators
23. George Antheil: 'I Am Not a Businessman'
24. Igor Stravinsky on Film Music
25. David Raksin: 'Hollywood Strikes Back'
26. Theodor Adorno and Hanns Eisler: 'Composing for the Films'
27. Frederick W. Sternfeld on Hugo Friedhofer's The Best Years of Our Lives
28. Aaron Copland in the Film Studio
29. Lawrence Morton: 'Composing, Orchestrating, and Criticizing'
30. Elmer Bernstein: 'Film Composers vs. The Studios'
31. Sidney Lumet: A Director's Viewpoint
Credits
Index
9780195331189
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