Berklee Press, 1999-p. 360 An essential resource for both students and professionals, offering shrewd insight into the business, process, and art of writing music for film and TV. Interviews with top film scoring professionals add priceless insight into the wisdom that comes with experience.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. — 240 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-7486-2345-7 The scope of this collection is indicative of the breadth and diversity of music's role in cinema, as is its emphasis on musical contributions to 'non-musical' films. By bringing together chapters that are concerned both with the relationship between performance, music and film and the specificity...
Pocket Essentials, 2001. — 96 p. — ISBN: 1-903047-63-3. Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. Classical purists say it isn't "real" music, yet it...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018. — 330 p. — ISBN10: 1538103672, 13 978-1538103678. The background music on a film can make or break the audience experience. Imagine the shower scene in Psycho without the shrieking violins or Jaws without the ominous notes that portend the shark's attack! Musical accompaniment helps create atmosphere for the viewer, from subtle undertones...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 441 p. This wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection of specially-commissioned essays provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of the many and various ways in which music functions in film soundtracks. Citing examples from a variety of historical periods, genres and film industries - including those of the USA, UK, France, Italy, India...
University of Illinois Press, 2012. — 312 p. — (Music in American Life). Through film composer Henry Mancini, mere background music in movies became part of pop culture--an expression of sophistication and wit with a modern sense of cool and a lasting lyricism that has not dated. The first comprehensive study of Mancini's music, Henry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music describes...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 160 p. — ISBN: 0195370872. Film music is as old as cinema itself. Years before synchronized sound became the norm, projected moving images were shown to musical accompaniment, whether performed by a lone piano player or a hundred-piece orchestra. Today film music has become its own industry, indispensable to the marketability of movies around...
New York, Routledge 2009. 329 p. A History explains the development of film music by considering large-scale aesthetic trends and structural developments alongside socioeconomic, technological, cultural, and philosophical circumstances. The book’s four large parts are given over to Music and the Silent Film (1894–1927), Music and the Early Sound Film (1894–1933), Music in the...