This book provides a comprehensive and lively introduction to the major trends in film scoring from the silent era to the present day, focussing not only on dom

In Film Music, fourteen of the world's best known film composers discuss their craft, revealing the creative process that led to the familiar sound of the most

Film Music: A History explains the development of film music by considering large-scale aesthetic trends and structural developments alongside socioeconomic, te

Beginning with the era of synchronized sound in the 1920s, music has been an integral part of motion pictures. Whether used to heighten the tension of a scene o

Hearing the Movies, Second Edition, combines a historical and chronological approach to the study of film music and sound with an emphasis on building listening