The Struggle Behind the Soundtrack: Inside the Discordant New World of Film Scoring

The Struggle Behind the Soundtrack: Inside the Discordant New World of Film Scoring
ISBN-10
1476676313
ISBN-13
9781476676319
Category
Music
Pages
228
Language
English
Published
2019-07-16
Publisher
McFarland
Author
Stephan Eicke

Description

Do you want to pick up a light saber whenever you hear John Williams' Star Wars theme? Get the urge to ride into the desert and face down steely-eyed desperados to the refrain of Ennio Morricone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly? Does Hans Zimmer's Pirates of the Caribbean score have you talking like Jack Sparrow? From the Westerns of the 1960s to current blockbusters, composers for both film and television have faced new challenges--evermore elaborate sound design, temp tracks, test audiences and working with companies that invest in film score recordings all have led to creative sparks, as well as frustrations. Drawing on interviews with more than 40 notable composers, this book gives an in-depth analysis of the industry and reveals the creative process behind such artists as Klaus Badelt, Mychael Danna, Abel Korzeniowski, Walter Murch, Rachel Portman, Alan Silvestri, Randy Thom and others.

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