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Scoring the Screen: The Secret Language of Film Music Music Pro Guides
Like all languages it exists primarily to convey ÊmeaningÊ. Hal leonard. In professional and academic spheres media music study and practice are growing; undergraduate and postgraduate programs in media scoring are offered by dozens of major colleges and universities. Today musical composition for films is more popular than ever.
Through extensive and unprecedented analyses of the original concert scores it is the first to offer both aspiring composers and music educators with a view Êfrom the insideÊ of the actual process of scoring-to-picture. The core thesis of Êscoring the screenÊ is that music for motion pictures is indeed a ÊlanguageÊ developed by the masters of the craft out of a dramatic and commercial necessity to communicate ideas and emotions instantaneously to an audience.
Andy hill is among the handful of penetrating minds and ears engaged in film music today. Yet a search on amazon reveals at least 50 titles under the category of film music and remarkably only a meager few actually allow readers to see the music itself while none of them examine landmark scores like ÊVertigoÊ ÊTo Kill a MockingbirdÊ ÊPattonÊ ÊThe UntouchablesÊ or ÊThe MatrixÊ in the detail provided by ÊScoring the Screen: The Secret Language of Film MusicÊ.
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The Emerging Film Composer: An Introduction to the People, Problems, and Psychology of the Film Music Business
Music Composition for Film and Television Music Composition: Film Scoring
The book is illustrated with extended excerpts from his most iconic scores such as Mission: Impossible, Cool Hand Luke, Bullitt and many others and peppered with anecdotes from inside the Hollywood studios. Schifrin reveals the technical details of his own working approach, which has earned him six Oscar nominations, 21 Grammy nominations with four awards, and credits on hundreds of major productions.
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Guerrilla Film Scoring: Practical Advice from Hollywood Composers
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On the Track
Used book in Good Condition. Hal leonard. It contains over 100 interviews with noted composers, illustrating the many technical points made through the text. Unlike other books that are aimed at the person "dreaming" of a career, this is truly a guide that can be used by everyone from students to technically sophisticated professionals.
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Contemporary Counterpoint: Theory & Application Music Theory: Counterpoint
. You will learn "tricks of the trade" from the masters and apply these skills to contemporary styles. Berklee Guide. Counterpoint the relationship between musical voices is among the core principles for writing music, and it has been central to the study of composition for many centuries. Hal leonard. Online audio examples illustrate the principles being discussed, and many recommended listening lists point you to additional examples of how these principles have been used in music over the past thousand years.
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Principles of Orchestration Dover Books on Music
Chords; progressions; and so on. Used book in Good Condition. In his course, he demonstrates such things as how to produce a good-sounding chord of certain tone-quality, uniformly distributed; how to detach a melody from its harmonic setting; correct progression of parts; and other similar problems. The first chapter is a general review of orchestral groups, emission of sound, with an instrument-by-instrument breakdown and material on such technical questions as fingering, range, etc.
To orchestrate is to create, " wrote nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, the great Russian composer whose genius for brilliant, and this cannot be taught, highly colored orchestration is unsurpassed. This book, which differs from most other texts on the subject because of its tremendous wealth of musical examples and its systematic arrangement of material according to each constituent of the orchestra, therefore, will undoubtedly be of value to any music student.
These excerpts are all referred to in the text itself, where they illustrate, far better than words, particular points of theory and actual musical practice. They are largely responsible for making this book the very special and very useful publication it is. This single-volume edition also includes a brief preface by the editor and extracts from Rimsky-Korsakov's 1891 draft and final versions of his own preface, as well as an appendixed chart of single tutti chords in the composer's works.
A Composer's Guide to Game Music MIT Press The MIT Press
Music in video games is often a sophisticated, complex composition that serves to engage the player, set the pace of play, and aid interactivity. Phillips offers detailed coverage of essential topics, both rendered and generative; audio technology, including musicianship and composition experience; immersion; musical themes; music and game genres; workflow; working with a development team; linear music; interactive music, from mixers and preamps to software; and running a business.
A composer's guide to game music offers indispensable guidance for musicians and composers who want to deploy their creativity in a dynamic and growing industry, protect their musical identities while working in a highly technical field, and create great music within the constraints of a new medium. Composers of video game music must master an array of specialized skills not taught in the conservatory, including the creation of linear loops, music chunks for horizontal resequencing, and compositional fragments for use within a generative framework.
Used book in Good Condition. In a composer's guide to game music, winifred phillips―herself an award-winning composer of video game music―provides a comprehensive, practical guide that leads an aspiring video game composer from acquiring the necessary creative skills to understanding the function of music in games to finding work in the field.
Musicians and composers may be drawn to game music composition because the game industry is a multibillion-dollar, employment-generating economic powerhouse, but, Phillips writes, the most important qualification for a musician who wants to become a game music composer is a love of video games.
Arranging for Strings
See how other composers have used strings to heighten the impact of their music in the written examples. Used book in Good Condition. You'll learn strategies for authentic writing in many different styles and find ideas to take your personal sound forward. Make your work stand out with the drama and depth that well informed string writing can bring.
Berklee Guide. Routledge. You will learn: * the tunings, including standard instruments and common variations, sul tasto, recording, and falls * string-section arranging techniques, and harmonics * Timbral and rhythm effects, viola, rock, pads, and comping * Stylistic nuances of genres such as American roots, and swing * Mic, such as vibrato, including acoustic, trills, cello, and timbres for the violin, portamento, and synthesized string instruments and sections * Bowing techniques and possibilities * Characteristic articulations and sounds, range, tremolos, pizzicato, jazz, electric, klezmer, and bass, such as chop technique, such as melody/countermelody, Gypsy jazz, Celtic, ponticello/feedback, eastern European, fills, and live sound techniques for capturing the best string sounds for both acoustic and electric instruments Hal leonard.
This book presents time-tested techniques and contemporary developments in writing and arranging for strings.
John Williams's Film Music: Jaws, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the Return of the Classical Hollywood Music Style Wisconsin Film Studies
Combining accessible writing with thorough scholarship, and rigorous historical accounts with insightful readings, John Williams’s Film Music explores why Williams is so important to the history of film music. Yet despite such critical acclaim and prestige, this is the first book in English on Williams’s work and career.
Beginning with an overview of music from hollywood’s Golden Age 1933–58, Emilio Audissino traces the turning points of Williams’s career and articulates how he revived the classical Hollywood musical style. Routledge. Used book in Good Condition. The result is a precise, enlightening definition of Williams’s “neoclassicism” and a grounded demonstration of his lasting importance, for both his compositions and his historical role in restoring part of the Hollywood tradition.
The extra-terrestrial, Superman, Jaws, and countless other films. This book charts each landmark of this musical restoration, Williams’s work as conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, with special attention to the scores for Jaws and Star Wars, and a full film/music analysis of Raiders of the Lost Ark.