Finding Materials on Composers and Instruction
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The following are a few searches related to film music which you may find useful.
- Motion picture music -- Instruction and study
- Television music -- Instruction and study
- The Scarecrow Film Score Guide series
- Subject searches on composer names (ex. Rozsa, Miklos)
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Instruction/Study
Selected books from the music library about film music; please contact us or search the catalog for additional items.
Complete Guide to Film Scoring by Call Number: ML2075 .D38 2010ISBN: 9780876391099Publication Date: 2010A guide to the business, process, and procedures for writing music for film or television. Includes interviews with film scoring professionals
Music Composition for Film and Television by Call Number: MT64.M65 S37 2011ISBN: 9780876391228Publication Date: 2011- On the track : a guide to contemporary film scoring byCall Number: MT64.M65 K3 2004
- Hearing film : tracking identifications in contemporary Hollywood film music byCall Number: ML2075 .K39 2001
- Composing for Films byCall Number: MT40 .E35 1994
- The art of film music : special emphasis on Hugo Friedhofer, Alex North, David Raksin, Leonard Rosenman byCall Number: MT64.M65 B87 1994
Composer Biographies
Selected books from the music library about film music; please contact us or search the catalog for additional items.
- Knowing the score : film composers talk about the art, craft, blood, sweat, and tears of writing for cinemaCall Number: ML2075 .K58 2000
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold byCall Number: ML410.K74 D83 1996
- Hugo Friedhofer : the best years of his life : a Hollywood master of music for the movies byCall Number: ML410.F87 H84 1999
- Dimitri Tiomkin : a portrait byCall Number: ML410.T56P3 1984
- A heart at fire's center : the life and music of Bernard Herrmann byCall Number: ML410.H562 S6 1991
- Max Steiner's Now, voyager : a film score guide byCall Number: ML410.S8163 D38 2000
- Hollywood rhapsody : movie music and its makers, 1900 to 1975 byCall Number: ML2075 .M246 1997
- Double life / Miklós Roźsa byCall Number: ML410.R883 A28 1989
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