Overhearing Film Music Conversations with Screen Composers
By John Caps
Three generations of famous movie soundtrack composers reveal the secrets of their art and success.
Beginning with a quick history of film scoring and then taking the reader backstage to interview a dozen major screen composers,Ā Overhearing Film MusicĀ represents three generations of movie soundtrack music. Ranging from groundbreaking composers who scored classic 1940s melodramas such asĀ LauraĀ and theĀ Thief of Bagdad, to the jazz-influenced modernists who worked onĀ Rebel Without a CauseĀ andĀ The Pink Panther, and into the symphonic renaissance represented by films likeĀ Star WarsĀ andĀ 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.
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By John Caps
Three generations of famous movie soundtrack composers reveal the secrets of their art and success.
Beginning with a quick history of film scoring and then taking the reader backstage to interview a dozen major screen composers,Ā Overhearing Film MusicĀ represents three generations of movie soundtrack music. Ranging from groundbreaking composers who scored classic 1940s melodramas such asĀ LauraĀ and theĀ Thief of Bagdad, to the jazz-influenced modernists who worked onĀ Rebel Without a CauseĀ andĀ The Pink Panther, and into the symphonic renaissance represented by films likeĀ Star WarsĀ andĀ 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.
