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. INDICE: Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; From 'Silents' to Sound ; 1.: Max Winkler: 'The Origins of Film Music'; 2.: T. Scott Buhrman: 'Photoplays De Luxe'; 3.: Ernö Rapée: '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 Composersin 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.: Miklós Rózsa on Quo Vadis; 17.: André 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
- ISBN: 978-0-19-533119-6
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 384
- Fecha Publicación: 04/11/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés