Overhearing Film Music: Conversations with Screen Composers (SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema)

By: null John Caps

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 406 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9798855800647
Related ISBNs:: 9798855800623, 9798855800630
Publisher:: State University of New York Press
Date of Addition:: 01/01/25
Copyrighted By:: State University of New York
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Music
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.