Case History of a Film Score: The Thorn Birds

by Henry Mancini, Roy Phillippe (Editor)

This text, designed as a tool for the college classroom, gives the reader insight into the creative process used by master film composer Henry Mancini. Edited by Roy Phillippe, the book provides 16 musical examples and includes a CD with recordings from the original soundtrack. The text provides detailed analysis of the ideology and technique behind Mancini's creation of music to be paired with the film's storyline and its images. A must for any aspiring film composer, film music buff, or Mancini fan!

999 pages, Paperback

First published May 31, 2004

About the author

Henry Mancini (Enrico Nicola Mancini) April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994 was an American composer, conductor, arranger, pianist and flutist.

Often cited as one of the greatest composers in the history of film, he won four Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, and twenty Grammy Awards, plus a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995.