Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall - Film Composers in the Concert Hall

Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall is a collection of fifteen essays dealing with 'iconic' film composers who, perhaps surprisingly, maintained life-long careers as composers for the concert hall.

List of contents

1. Erich Wolfgang Korngold: The Last Prodigy - Brendan G. Carroll 2. The Concert Works of Georges Auric, 1945 to 1983 - Colin Roust 3. Looking for Mr. Hyde: Franz Waxman's Musical Activities beyond Film - Ingeborg Zechner 4. The Double Life of Miklós Rózsa's Violin Concerto and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes - Stephen Meyer 5. Bernard Herrmann's Concert Music, 1935 to 1975: An Overview - Samuel Cottell 6. Nino Rota: Neo-Classicist, Classical Modernist, or Pragmatic Pluralist? - Carl Alexander Vincent 7. Jerome Moross: The Concert Hall and Stage Works - Mariana Whitmer 8. Don Banks: Hammer Horror and Serial Composition - Michael Hooper 9. Modern Composer Off the Screen: Leonard Rosenman's Concert Music - Reba A. Wissner 10. The Maestro of Multiple Voices: The 'Absolute Music' of Ennio Morricone - Felicity Wilcox 11. 'I Did It for Fun': André Previn, Crossover Musician - Frédéric Döhl 12. Wojciech Kilar: 'I Am Like a Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde' - Bogumila Mika 13. Alberto Iglesias: The Spanish Composer behind Pedro Almodóvar's Films - María Ángeles Ferrer-Forés 14. Johannes factotum: Jóhann Jóhannson - Vasco Hexel 15. Laura Rossi's War Musics - Kendra Preston Leonard

About the author

James Wierzbicki is an associate professor of musicology at the University of Sydney.

Summary

Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall is a collection of fifteen essays dealing with ‘iconic’ film composers who, perhaps surprisingly, maintained life-long careers as composers for the concert hall.

Product details

• Authors: James Wierzbicki, James (University of Michigan Wierzbicki, James (University of Sydney Wierzbicki
• Assisted by: James Wierzbicki (Editor), Wierzbicki James (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367661397
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66139-7
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Routledge Research in Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / General, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Printed Music / Musicals, Film & TV, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Music of film and stage