Scoring the screen : the secret language of film music / Andy Hill.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:MusicPro guides.
Main Author: Hill, A. W. (Andrew Warren), 1951- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard Books, 2017.
Series:MusicPro guides.
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Physical Description:xxxi, 391 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • A word on how to use this book
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword: The greatest gig in the world
  • Introduction: Ancient & modern: an appreciation of James Newton Howard's The sixth sense
  • From among the dead: Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo
  • Boo Radley's porch: Elmer Bernstein's To kill a mockingbird
  • Signs and meaning: From Spellbound to Inception
  • Perfume: The scent of murder
  • Carmen in hell: David Newman's The war of the roses
  • Waltz for a dead girl: Christopher Young's Jennifer 8
  • Feed your head: Don Davis's The matrix
  • Such a long, long way to fall: Danny Elfman's Alice in Wonderland
  • Surgical precision: Alberto Iglesias's La piel que habito
  • The strength of the righteous: Ennio Morricone's The untouchables
  • Toward a new aesthetic of music for the screen
  • Through a glass, and darkly: Anatomy of a cue from Jerry Goldsmith's Patton
  • Stand up! Two cues from Elliot Goldenthal's Michael Collins
  • John Powell slays a dragon
  • Against the odds: The road to Kraków
  • Afterword.