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Informationen zum Autor ANDY HILL (Nashville, TN) is a Grammy Award winning motion picture music producer. From 1987 to 1996, he served as vice president of music production for Walt Disney Pictures. He developed and directed, from 2006 to 2011, the MFA in Music Composition for the Screen at Columbia College Chicago and oversaw the launch of the MA in Scoring for Film, Television and Video Games at the international campus of the Berklee College of Music. He is an industry advisor to the MA in Film Scoring at Pulse College, Dublin. Klappentext SCORING THE SCREEN: THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF FILM MUSICThis is the first book since Roy M. Prendergast s 1977 benchmark, Film Music: A Neglected Art, to treat music for motion pictures as a compositional style worthy of serious study.
List of contents
A Word on How to Use This Book
Acknowledgments
Foreword: The Greatest Gig in the World
Introduction: Ancient & Modern: An Appreciation of James Newton Howard's The Sixth Sense
One. From Among the Dead: Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo
Two. Boo Radley's Porch: Elmer Bernstein's To Kill a Mockingbird
Three. Signs and Meaning: From Spellbound to Inception
Four. Perfume: The Scent of Murder
Five. Carmen in Hell: David Newman's The War of the Roses
Six. Waltz for a Dead Girl: Christopher Young's Jennifer 8
Seven. Feed Your Head: Don Davis's The Matrix
Eight. Such a Long, Long Way to Fall: Danny Elfman's Alice in Wonderland
Nine. Surgical Precision: Alberto Iglesias's La piel que habito
Ten. The Strength of the Righteous: Ennio Morricone's The Untouchables
Eleven. Toward a New Aesthetic of Music for the Screen
Twelve. Through a Glass, and Darkly: Anatomy of a Cue from Jerry Goldsmith's Patton
Thirteen. Stand Up! Two Cues from Elliot Goldenthal's Michael Collins
Fourteen. John Powell Slays a Dragon
Fifteen. Against the Odds: The Road to Kraków
Afterword
