Film Musings

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For nearly twenty years, scholar and critic Royal S. Brown contributed a regular column, "Film Musings," to Fanfare magazine. These columns have been assembled, largely unaltered, for this single-volume collection. In these essays. Brown reviews significant recordings of music originally composed or adapted from other sources to enhance and complement the dramatic action of a wide variety of movies. Although many of the reviews are of original soundtrack recordings for films released during the column's run, several also cover reissues of earlier recordings, as well as newly recorded versions of classic scores. In certain instances, Brown was able to include in his column interviews with such composers as David Raksin (Laura) and Howard Shore (The Silence of the Lambs) concerning new recordings of their music, and these are included here as well.
An expert on film and film music, Brown frequently offers controversial... Tovább

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Film » Music
For nearly twenty years, scholar and critic Royal S. Brown contributed a regular column, "Film Musings," to Fanfare magazine. These columns have been assembled, largely unaltered, for this single-volume collection. In these essays. Brown reviews significant recordings of music originally composed or adapted from other sources to enhance and complement the dramatic action of a wide variety of movies. Although many of the reviews are of original soundtrack recordings for films released during the column's run, several also cover reissues of earlier recordings, as well as newly recorded versions of classic scores. In certain instances, Brown was able to include in his column interviews with such composers as David Raksin (Laura) and Howard Shore (The Silence of the Lambs) concerning new recordings of their music, and these are included here as well.
An expert on film and film music, Brown frequently offers controversial perspectives not only on the music but also on the film for which the music was composed. In many cases, he stresses the interactions between the cinematic action and the score, an aspect generally ignored by most film-music critics. His perceptions are presented in an accessible style that will allow readers to discover many of the treasures of what once was a neglected art. Film Musings is not intended as a guide for collectors—although many of the recordings discussed are still available—but rather to open new horizons in a unique art form.
Royal S. Brown is chair of the Department of European Languages and Literatures at Queens College, New York, where he formerly served as director of the Film Studies Program. He is a regular contributor to Cineaste magazine and has also written for such magazines as High Fidelity and Fanfare, for which he was music editor for several years. He is the author of Focus on Godard (1972) and Overtones and Undertones (1994). Vissza