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Film Score Guides
Alex North's A Streetcar Named Desire 978-0-8108-6393-4
Alex North; A Streetcar Named Desire
Alex North's A Streetcar Named Desire: A Film Score Guide examines the acclaimed score for Elia Kazan's much-celebrated adaptation of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).
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Bernard Herrmann: The Ghost & Mrs. Muir Scarecrow-ghost
Bernard Herrmann: The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
errmann's score reinforces the film's romantic theme, and much of the music has an appropriately elegiac quality. In mood, orchestration, and even to some extent thematic identity, it seems to prefigure his music for Vertigo.
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Danny Elfman: Batman 978-0-8108-5126-9
Danny Elfman: Batman
This book examines Elfman's scoring technique and provides a detailed analysis and commentary on the Batman score.
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Ennio Morricone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 978-0-8108-5132-0
Ennio Morricone: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
This guide demonstrates Morricone's unique and enduring contributions to the art of film music through a discussion of his compositional and orchestrational processes, many of which are evident in his music for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold: The Adventures of Robin Hood 978-0-8108-5888-6
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: The Adventures of Robin Hood
In Erich Wolfgang Korngold's The Adventures of Robin Hood: A Film Score Guide, author Ben Winters uses manuscript and archival research to challenge preconceived notions about the score's composer and its authorship.
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Gabriel Yared: The English Patient 978-0-8108-4965-5
Gabriel Yared: The English Patient
His score for this film testifies to the continued appeal of a classical, noncommercial style of scoring, eschewing the use of contemporary pop music for a more 'timeless' sound.
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Louis and Bebe Barron's Forbidden Planet 978-0-8108-5670-7
Louis and Bebe Barron: Forbidden Planet
Forbidden Planet is a product of the MGM studio, which at the time of the production of this film was hardly in the business of making science-fiction films.
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