Overhearing Film Music
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
979-8-8558-0063-0 (ISBN)
Beginning with a quick history of film scoring and then taking the reader backstage to interview a dozen major screen composers, Overhearing Film Music represents three generations of movie soundtrack music. Ranging from groundbreaking composers who scored classic 1940s melodramas such as Laura and the Thief of Bagdad, to the jazz-influenced modernists who worked on Rebel Without a Cause and The Pink Panther, and into the symphonic renaissance represented by films like Star Wars and Harry Potter, Caps asks the seminal questions: How did this kind of active movie scoring evolve from silent films-and where is it headed? These interviews provide a master class in how and why to score a film. Interspersed among the interviews, Caps's single-subject essays provide concise histories of the use of choral music in films, African American and female film composers, and digital composing software for a new era.
John Caps is the author of Crisis Music: Six 20th Century Composers and Henry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Part I. A Veteran's Diary
1. Elmer Bernstein
Part II. From the Golden Age
2. Miklós Rózsa: Orthodoxy
3. David Raksin: The Provocateur
4. Jerome Moross: Americana to the Fore
5. Interlude: Black Composers for Film — A Mini-History
6. Interlude: Choral Music in Films — A Mini-History
Part III. New Ambassadors
7. Henry Mancini: The Populist Movement
8. Laurence Rosenthal: More than Respect
9. Richard Rodney Bennett: The Complete Musician
10. Interlude: The Exasperating Michel Legrand
11. Interlude: Women Composers for Film — A Mini-History
12. Interlude: The Walk of Fame — Jerry Goldsmith
Part IV. A Successor Generation
13. David Shire: Setting the Stage
14. Rachel Portman: The Storyteller
15. Jermaine Stegall: For a Digital Age
16. Interlude: A Pair of Glasses — Philip Glass versus Paul Glass
17. Interlude: The New Millennium — Enter Ex-Rockers
Part V. A New Exemplar
18. John Williams: Another Birthday Toast
Notes to the Future
Notes
Works Cited or Recommended
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.06.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema |
| Zusatzinfo | 20 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 544 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
| ISBN-13 | 979-8-8558-0063-0 / 9798855800630 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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