Laurence E. MacDonald

The Invisible Art of Film Music

A Comprehensive History

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Produktbeschreibung

In this updated and expanded edition of The Invisible Art of Film Music, Laurence MacDonald provides a comprehensive introduction to film music for the general student, the film historian, and the aspiring cinematographer. This volume is a historically structured account of the evolution of music in films and the development of the films themselves. Arranged as a chronological survey from the silent era to the present day, this volume offers readers insight into the vital contribution film scores have made.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scarecrow Press
• Second Edition
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 210mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1503g
• ISBN-13: 9780810883970
• ISBN-10: 081088397X
• Artikelnr.: 36908094

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By Laurence E. MacDonald

Inhaltsangabe

Contents List of Biographical Sketches Preface Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION
Music and the Birth of Film
The Evolution of Movie Theaters Music for Silent Films D. W. Griffith Combining Sound and Film Nine Decades of Film Music Endnotes 1920-29
The Evolution of Synchronized Sound
Prelude Radio Popular Music Movies 1920 The Movie Industry Goes West 1921 Valentino's Tango D. w. Griffith: Dream Street 1922 Other Early Movie Sound Systems 1923 Lee De Forest's Phonofilms The Sound of Silents 1924 Phonofilm Firsts (and Lasts) Erno Rapee: Motion Picture Moods 1925 Rival Sound Systems 1926 Warner Bros. and the Birth of Vitaphone William Fox and the Case-Sponable System Introducing the Movie Theme Song: "Charmaine" 1927 The First Talkie: The Jazz Singer The First Movietone Films Toward All-Talking Pictures More Movie Theme Songs 1928 The Transition to Talkies Achieving A Compatible Movie Sound System The Talking Trend Continues 1929 The Broadway Melody: All Talking! All Singing! All Dancing! A Deluge of Musical Madness The First Oscars Postlude Reinventing the Craft Endnotes 1930-39
The Dawn of the Golden Age
Prelude Radio Popular Music Movies The Advent of Film Underscoring The Three Godfathers of Film Music: Max Steiner Alfred Newman Dimitri Tiomkin 1930 The Short-Lived Heyday Of The Musical Film 1931 Early Dramatic Film Scores Max Steiner: Cimarron Alfred Newman: Street Scene Dimitri Tiomkin: Resurrection 1932 Max Steiner: Music from Wall to Wall Alfred Newman: Music For Exotic Locales Tiomkin Takes Time Out 1933 Kong Comes Calling The Return of the Musical Harry Warren: 42nd Street 1934 The First Oscars for Music Sergei Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Alfred Newman: Our Daily Bread Jeanette MacDonald Films 1935 The Golden Age Begins Max Steiner: The Informer Arthur Bliss: Things to Come The Advent of Erich Wolfgang Korngold Franz Waxman: The Bride of Frankenstein The Formation of Studio Music Departments 1936 The Studio System Max Steiner: The Charge of the Light Brigade Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Anthony Adverse Charlie Chaplin: Modern Times Short Cuts 1937 Mythical Places and Exotic Locales Two Scores By Max Steiner Dimitri Tiomkin: Lost Horizon Alfred Newman: The Hurricane and The Prisoner of Zenda Rule Changes for Music Oscars Short Cuts 1938 Russian Film Music Dmitri Shostakovich: A Long Career Sergei Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky Max Steiner: Jezebel Erich Wolfgang Korngold: The Adventures of Robin Hood Short Cuts 1939 Max Steiner: Gone with the Wind Steiner's Other Scores Aaron Copland: The City and Of Mice and Men Silvestre Revueltas: La noche de los Mayas Short Cuts Postlude The Talkies Come of Age Endnotes 1940-49
World War II and Its Aftermath
Prelude Radio Television Popular Music Movies 1940 Erich Wolfgang Korngold: The Sea Hawk Charlie Chaplin: The Great Dictator Franz Waxman: Rebecca Short Cuts 1941 Bernard Herrmann: Raising Kane Alfred Newman: How Green Was My Valley Miklós Rózsa: Films about Women Short Cuts 1942 Hollywood Goes To War Herbert Stothart: Mrs. Miniver More Patriotic Films Bernard Herrmann: The Magnificent Ambersons Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Kings Row Miklós Rózsa: The Jungle Book Max Steiner: Now, Voyager Short Cuts 1943 Alfred Newman: The Song of Bernadette Max Steiner: Casablanca Miklós Rózsa: Five Graves to Cairo Short Cuts 1944 David Raksin: Laura Max Steiner: Since You Went Away Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Between Two Worlds Short Cuts 1945 Miklós Rózsa and the Theremin Bernard Herrmann: Hangover Square Short Cuts 1946 Hugo Friedhofer: The Best Years of Our Lives Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Deception Roy Webb: Music for Thrillers Short Cuts 1947 Bernard Herrmann: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Miklós Rózsa: Crime Films Short Cuts 1948 Ralph Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic Brian Easdale: The Red Shoes Max Steiner: Johnny Belinda and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Short Cuts 1949 Aaron Copland: The Brooklyn Stravinsky The Three Godfathers: Still Scoring after All These Years Short Cuts Postlude The End of the Golden Age Endnotes 1950-59
The Decline of the Studio System
Prelude Popular Music Television Movies 1950 Hollywood At Midcentury Franz Waxman: Sunset Blvd. Dimitri Tiomkin: Cyrano de Bergerac and D.O.A. Alfred Newman: All about Eve Short Cuts 1951 Alex North: A Streetcar Named Desire Bernard Herrmann: The Day the Earth Stood Still Dimitri Tiomkin: From Sci-Fi Film to Thriller Short Cuts 1952 Dimitri Tiomkin: High Noon Victor Young: From Scaramouche to The Greatest Show on Earth Short Cuts 1953 Alfred Newman: The Robe Bernard Herrmann: Three Action Potboilers Miklós Rózsa: Three Historical Dramas Short Cuts Footnote to 1953 1954 Leonard Bernstein: On the Waterfront Alfred Newman and Bernard Herrmann: An Unusual Partnership Short Cuts 1955 Leonard Rosenman: From East Of Eden To Rebel Without A Cause Bernard Herrmann: From The Kentuckian To The Trouble with HarrY Elmer Bernstein: The Man with the Golden Arm George Duning: Picnic Walter Schumann: The Night of the Hunter Short Cuts 1956 Victor Young: Around the World in 80 Days Elmer Bernstein: The Ten Commandments Dimitri Tiomkin: Giant and Friendly Persuasion Short Cuts 1957 Franz Waxman: The Pinnacle of His Career Malcolm Arnold: The Bridge on the River Kwai Short Cuts 1958 Bernard Herrmann: Great Collaborations Jerome Moross: The Big Country New Kids on the Block Short Cuts 1959 Miklós Rózsa: Ben-Hur Bernard Herrmann: Journey to the Center of the Earth and North by Northwest Adolph Deutsch: Some Like It Hot Jazz At The Movies: Duke Ellington and John Lewis Short Cuts Postlude Two Rising Stars Endnotes 1960-69
The Changing of the Guard
Prelude Popular Music Television Movies Elmer Bernstein: The Magnificent Seven Scores for Historical Epics André Previn: Elmer Gantry Short Cuts The Henry Mancini-Blake Edwards Collaboration Miklós Rózsa: Scoring Samuel Bronston's Epics Elmer Bernstein: Both in and out of the Saddle Short Cuts The New Wave Maurice Jarre: Lawrence of Arabia Two by Elmer Bernstein Two by Bernard Herrmann Short Cuts Footnote to 1962 John Addison: Tom Jones Alfred Newman: How the West Was Won Short Cuts Footnote to 1963 Laurence Rosenthal: Becket Malcolm Arnold: The Chalk Garden Short Cuts Maurice Jarre: Doctor Zhivago Music for Epics Short Cuts Jerry Goldsmith: A Composer for All Seasons Bernard Herrmann: Fahrenheit 451 Short Cuts Lalo Schifrin: Cool Hand Luke Quincy Jones: Scoring Hot and Cold Ennio Morricone: Three Spaghetti Westerns New Directions in Film Music Short Cuts John Barry: The Lion in Winter Nino Rota: Romeo and Juliet Jerry Goldsmith: Planet Of The Apes Marvin Hamlisch: The Swimmer Short Cuts Footnote to 1968 John Williams: The Reivers Burt Bacharach: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Short Cuts Postlude Passing the Torch Endnotes 1970-79
The Revival of the Symphonic Film Score
Prelude Popular Music Television Movies Henry Mancini: From Darling Lili to The Night Visitor Francis Lai: Love Story Short Cuts Michel Legrand: Summer of'42 Bernard Herrmann: A Resurgence Walter Carlos: A Clockwork Orange Short Cuts Footnote to 1971 Nino Rota: The Godfather Jerry Goldsmith: The Other Deliverance: "Dueling Banjos" Short Cuts Marvin Hamlisch: The Way We Were and The Sting Jerry Goldsmith: Papillon By Borrowing Possessed: The Exorcist Short Cuts Richard Rodney Bennett: Murder on the Orient Express Francis Ford Coppola Films Short Cuts David Shire: Farewell, My Lovely and The Hindenburg John Williams: Jaws Jack Nitzsche: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest Short Cuts Bernard Herrmann: Requiem for a Musical Heavyweight In Herrmann's wake Short Cuts John Williams: Celestial Encounters Jerry Goldsmith: From MacArthur to Damnation Alley Short Cuts Jerry Goldsmith: From Coma to Magic John Williams: From Jaws 2 to Superman John Carpenter and Giorgio Moroder: Two Synthesized Scores Short Cuts Miklós Rózsa: Thriller and Fantasy Jerry Goldsmith: In Outer Space Viva Vivaldi! Three Scores in the Baroque Style Short Cuts Postlude The Last Hurrah Endnotes 1980-89
The Influence of Synthesized Sound
Prelude New Technology Popular Music Television Movies John Barry: Raise the Titanic and Somewhere in Time John Williams: The Empire Strikes Back John Morris: The Elephant Man Short Cuts Dave Grusin: On Golden Pond John Williams: Raiders of the Lost Ark Randy Newman: Ragtime Vangelis: Chariots of Fire Some Things Borrowed, Some Things New: Excalibur Short Cuts Basil Poledouris: Conan the Barbarian John Williams: E.T. the Extra-terrestrial Jerry Goldsmith: Poltergeist Short Cuts Bill Conti: The Right Stuff Jerry Goldsmith: From Under Fire to Twilight Zone: The Movie Short Cuts Randy Newman: The Natural Maurice Jarre: A Passage to India and Dreamscape Short Cuts Popular Music in Films Bruce Broughton: From Small Screen to Big Screen Short Cuts Ennio Morricone: The Mission Jerry Goldsmith: Hoosiers Short Cuts John Williams: Empire of the Sun A Multicultural Score: The Last Emperor Peter Martin and Borrowed Classical Themes: Hope and Glory Short Cuts Alan Silvestri: Who Framed Roger Rabbit Danny Elfman: Beetlejuice Hans Zimmer: Rain Man Short Cuts James Horner: Field of Dreams Patrick Doyle: Henry V John Williams: Born on the Fourth of July Short Cuts Postlude An Emphasis on Youth Endnotes 1990-99
The Rise of Independent Films
Prelude Popular Music in Films Television Movies John Barry: Dances with Wolves Danny Elfman: Edward Scissorhands Randy Newman: Avalon and Awakenings Short Cuts Alan Menken: Beauty and the Beast James Newton Howard: The Prince of Tides Michael Kamen: Robin Hood-Prince of Thieves Elmer Bernstein: From Rambling Rose to Oscar Short Cuts Jerry Goldsmith: From Basic Instinct To Forever Young Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman: The Last of the Mohicans Short Cuts Patrick Doyle: Another Great Collaboration Elmer Bernstein: The Age of Innocence and The Good Son John Williams: Jurassic Park and Schindler's List Short Cuts Hans Zimmer: The Lion King Alan Silvestri: Forrest Gump James Horner: Legends of the Fall and Clear and Present Danger Short Cuts Michael Kamen: Mr. Holland's Opus Two Categories of Film Scores Short Cuts Elliot Goldenthal: Michael Collins Mark Isham: Fly Away Home Gabriel Yared: The English Patient Short Cuts Danny Elfman: From Men in Black to Good Will Hunting John Williams: From Rosewood to Amistad James Horner: The Devil's Own and Titanic Minimalism in Film Music Short Cuts Bruce Broughton: Lost (and found) in Space Nicola Piovani: Life is Beautiful James Horner: From Deep Impact To Mighty Joe Young Short Cuts Honorable Mentions John Corigliano: The Red Violin James Newton Howard: From The Sixth Sense To Snow Falling On Cedars Jerry Goldsmith: From The Mummy To The 13th Warrior Thomas Newman: American Beauty And The Green Mile Short Cuts Honorable Mentions Postlude End of the Century: Veteran Composers Vs. Newcomers 2000-2009
The Derivative Decade
Prelude Popular Music Television Movies James Newton Howard: An Unbreakable Collaboration James Horner: From A Perfect Storm to The Grinch Hans Zimmer: Gladiator Tan Dun: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Short Cuts Honorable Mentions James Horner: From Iris to A Beautiful Mind John Williams: Music for Robots and Wizards Howard Shore: Scoring a Tolkien Saga Short Cuts Honorable Mentions The Williams/Spielberg Collaboration Continues James Newton Howard: From Signs to Treasure Planet Jerry Goldsmith and Elmer Bernstein: Still Going Strong Howard Shore: Continuing the Lord of the Rings Saga Short cuts Honorable Mentions Howard Shore: Lord of the Ring Hans Zimmer: Music for Africans, Samurais, and Pirates Four Scores by James Horner Clint Eastwood as Composer: Mystic River Short cuts Honorable Mentions Footnote to 2003 Alexandre Desplat: Giving Birth James Newton Howard: From Hidalgo to Collateral John Williams: Music for Harry Potter and Tom Hanks Howard Shore: Scoring The Aviator Short Cuts Honorable Mentions Footnote to 2004 End of the Star Wars Saga John Williams: Still more Spielberg Scores Replacement Composers Two Composers for One Superhero Mark Isham: Taking A Crash Course Shot cuts Honorable Mentions A Touch Of Glass Three Scores By Alexandre Desplat Two Scores By James Newton Howard Three By Zimmer Two By Mychael Danna Short Cuts Honorable Mentions Footnote New Musical Voices from Europe: Dario Marianelli Nicholas Hooper: A New Voice for Harry Potter Michael Giacchino: A New Voice for Pixar Marco Beltrami: A New Voice for Westerns and Die Hard Films Short cuts Honorable Mentions The Son Also Rises: Thomas Newman Alexandre Desplat: Music for a Curious Film A. R. Rrahman: Music for a Slumdog Film Michael Giacchino: Music for a Scoreless Film Short Cuts Honorable Mentions Michael Giacchino: From Video Games to the Oscar James Horner: Scoring Avatar Hans Zimmer: Scoring Music for Super Sleuths Alexandre Desplat: Scoring in Several Genres Marco Beltrami: Scoring the End of the World Short Cuts Honorabale Mentions Postlude Bibliography General Index Index of Titles Index of Names About the Author