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The Routledge Film Music Sourcebook

  • Editor: Platte, Nathan
  • Editor: Roust, Colin
  • Editor: Wierzbicki, James

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Contents

  • Part I : "Silent" Film
  • 1. Early Approaches to Film Accompaniment
  • 1. 1 Music for the Picture Clarence E. Sinn
  • 1. 2 Playing the Pictures Clyde Martin
  • 1. 3 Jackass Music Lou Reeves Harrison
  • 2. Dreams of the Future
  • 2. 1 Music for the Movies Carl Van Vechten
  • 2. 2 The Surveys of Le Film: Music and the Cinema
  • 3. Practical Advice in the Heyday of the Silent Film
  • 3. 1 Musical Accompaniment to the Feature Picture Erno Rapee
  • 3. 2 Scoring a Motion Picture Victor Wagner
  • 3. 3 The Artistic Feature Film and Music: Its Genres Hans Erdmann
  • Part II : Early Sound Film
  • 4. Transitional Concerns
  • 4. 1 Music and the Cinema Edwin Evans
  • 4. 2 About the Music to New Babylon Dmitry Shostakovich
  • 4. 3 Experimenting with Sound Films Darius Milhaud
  • 5. Accounts of the Sound Film's Early Years
  • 5. 1 Musical Picture Quietly Undergoes Renaissance Philip K. Scheurer
  • 5. 2 Musical Pictures Are Here Again Helen Louise Walker
  • 5. 3 Film Experiences Its Sanest Development Edwin Schaller
  • 6. Debates on the Future of Music in Sound Films
  • 6. 1 A Little about Movie Music Virgil Thomson
  • 6. 2 Music and the Synchronized Film Clarence Raybould
  • 6. 3 Musical Surprises Azary Azarin
  • 6. 4 The Experience of the Composer Nikolai Krykov
  • Part III : Music in the Classical-Style Film
  • 7. Practical Advice as Film Music's "Classical Style" Takes Shape
  • 7. 1 Film Music Arthur Benjamin
  • 7. 2 On the Hollywood Front George Antheil
  • 7. 3 History of Motion Picture Music Franz Waxman
  • 7. 4 Memoranda David O. Selznick
  • 8. Aesthetic Squabbles
  • 8. 1 Music and Cinema: An Impossible Marriage Gianandrea Gavazzeni
  • 8. 2 Music and Cinema: A Difficult Marriage Fedele d'Amico
  • 8. 3 Music and the Screen Erich Leinsdorf
  • 8. 4 Music in Films-A Rebuttal Bernard Herrmann
  • 8. 5 Heard Melodies Bosley Crowther
  • Part IV : The Postwar Years
  • 9. European vs. American Attitudes
  • 9. 1 Music: Congress at Florence Antony Hopkins
  • 9. 2 Film Music of the Quarter Lawrence Morton
  • 9. 3 Hollywood Orchestrators: The Dragon Shows Its Teeth Hans Keller
  • 9. 4 How Film Music Was Born and How It Is Made Today Georges Auric
  • 10. Foreign Ideas
  • 10. 1 A Few Ideas about Music and Film John Cage
  • 10. 2 Concrete Music Pierre Schaeffer
  • 10. 3 On Using Musical Instruments in Film Music Wang Yunjie
  • 11. Stylistic Novelties
  • 11. 1 Scorers Skip Classics, Seek New Approach Philip K. Sheurer
  • 11. 2 Three Movie Scores Issued on LP Disks John S. Wilson
  • 11. 3 British Rattled by Rock 'n' Roll Thomas P. Ronan
  • 11. 4 Reviews of The Girl Can't Help It and Rock, Pretty Baby Mae Tinee
  • 11. 5 The First Electronic Filmscore-Forbidden Planet Jane Brockman
  • 11. 6 Electronic Reinforce Andromeda Film Score Martin Bernheimer
  • Part V : Changing Times
  • 12. Gloom and Doom
  • 12. 1 What Ever Happened to Great Movie Music? Elmer Bernstein
  • 12. 2 Whatever Became of Movie Music? David Raksin
  • 13. Plenty of Optimism
  • 13. 1 Sound and Fury over Film Music Charles Champlin
  • 13. 2 Notes from a Subculture Leonard Rosenman
  • 13. 3 You May Not Leave the Movie House Singing Their Songs, But ... Charles Higham
  • Part VI : The Business of Film Music
  • 14. Labor Pains
  • 14. 1 The 1958 Strike
  • 14. 2 The 1980 Strike
  • 14. 3 Newer Developments
  • 15. Soundtrack Albums
  • 15. 1 Music Is Now Profit to the Ears of Filmmakers Vincent Canby
  • 15. 2 The Sound of (Movie) Music: Re-Releases of Soundtracks Past Tom Shales
  • 15. 3 Movie Music: Is It Becoming Hit or Miss? Steven Smith
  • Part VII : A Whole New World
  • 16. New Instruments
  • 16. 1 Synthesizer Upstarts Conquer Hollywood Jeff Burger
  • 16. 2 Computers in the Movies: How Desktop PCs Help Create Hollywood's Amazing Music and Sound Effects Lachlan Westfall
  • 16. 3 The Unreal Orchestra,
  • Part 1 : The Virtual Film Score Michael Prager
  • 16. 4 Sound for Picture: Hans Zimmer's Scoring Collective-Composer Collaboration at Remote Control Productions Matt Hurwitz
  • 17. New Methods
  • 17. 1 Making Soundtracks Jeff Rona
  • 17. 2 Music in Movies and TV: Filling the Bill Nick Krewen
  • 17. 3 Music Business Insider: Q&A: Jack Rudy Mike Levine
  • Part VIII : Today, Tomorrow
  • 18. Fin de siecle
  • 18. 1 Film Music Has Two Masters Donal Henahan
  • 18. 2 In Hollywood, Discord on What Makes Music David Mermelstein
  • 18. 3 Keeping Scores: Good Old-Fashioned Movie Music Is as Healthy as It Ever Was James Hunter
  • 18. 4 Many Ways to Score Catherine Applefeld Olson
  • 19. Onward and Upward?
  • 19. 1 Taking Movie Music Seriously, Like It Or Not David Schiff
  • 19. 2 The Soundtrack Game Is Attracting Fresh and Edgy Artists Dylan Callaghan
  • 19. 3 When Is Film Music Classical? Jed Distler
  • 19. 4 Hollywood Composers Tune In for Rare Gathering Kevin Cassidy
  • 19. 5 127 Hours and Other Films Take Experimental Turns in Music Todd Martens