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Soundtrack: The Music Of The Movies
OUT OF PRINT, HARD TO FIND IN THIS LIKE NEW CONDITION ~ NO DUST JACKET ~ TEXT IMMACULATE AS NEW ~ BINDING VERY TIGHT AND SOLID ~ VERY HIGHLY RATED & REVIEWED BOOK PRICED EXTREMELY LOW ~ SHIPPED FAST WITH TRACKING INFO.
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319 pages, Paperback
First published December 31, 1979
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November 10, 2021
The most important thing to know about this book is that it is copyright 1975. If you are looking for analysis of movie soundtracks post-1973 (the last date I could find mentioned in the book), or of modern film music composers, look elsewhere. I enjoyed it for being something of a time capsule of that era...film scores were just beginning to appear on records, the commercializing of said records created a shift in the industry, and there was a period of adjustment prior to the return of big symphonic scores such as Star Wars.
There is a wonderful introduction by composer Miklos Rozsa, if a little pessimistic about the quality of that day's film music. There are five pages of composer caricatures drawn by Marc Nadel (three each page, for a total of fifteen composers represented). The text by Mark Evans is quite informative, if a bit dry at times. He covers a wide breadth of composers, from the Silent Era through the Golden Age and the 1950s, with a few mentioned from the 1960s and early '70s. He writes about animation composers such as Scott Bradley and Carl Stalling, women composers like Ann Ronell and Elizabeth Firestone, and much more. He does gush over some of the great symphonic scores of the Golden Age, and lament the rock-songs-as-scores trend.
If you want a more detailed analysis of the more famous composers, I would recommend The Composer in Hollywood by Christopher Palmer, copyright 1990.
There is a wonderful introduction by composer Miklos Rozsa, if a little pessimistic about the quality of that day's film music. There are five pages of composer caricatures drawn by Marc Nadel (three each page, for a total of fifteen composers represented). The text by Mark Evans is quite informative, if a bit dry at times. He covers a wide breadth of composers, from the Silent Era through the Golden Age and the 1950s, with a few mentioned from the 1960s and early '70s. He writes about animation composers such as Scott Bradley and Carl Stalling, women composers like Ann Ronell and Elizabeth Firestone, and much more. He does gush over some of the great symphonic scores of the Golden Age, and lament the rock-songs-as-scores trend.
If you want a more detailed analysis of the more famous composers, I would recommend The Composer in Hollywood by Christopher Palmer, copyright 1990.
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