Scoring the Screen

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"Andy has supervised and collaborated with an amazing list of great composers and songwriters including Hans Zimmer, Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, and Randy Newman, among many others. He has studied the field as extensively as any author, and there is so much material here for the aspiring composer as well as the film music aficionado!'' —CHRIS MONTAN, president, Walt Disney Pictures Music
"In this remarkable new book, Andrew Hill displays the comprehensive knowledge, wisdom, and reverence required to provide informed and practical insight into the art and craft of composing screen music. I believe this to be the only book in which large numbers of significant and original film-score manuscripts have been culled and presented for analysis and celebration."
^DANIEL CARLIN, professor and chair/director, Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television, Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California
"Andy Hill's Scoring the Screen is, like its author,... Tovább

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y.S.S34.99
"Andy has supervised and collaborated with an amazing list of great composers and songwriters including Hans Zimmer, Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, and Randy Newman, among many others. He has studied the field as extensively as any author, and there is so much material here for the aspiring composer as well as the film music aficionado!'' —CHRIS MONTAN, president, Walt Disney Pictures Music
"In this remarkable new book, Andrew Hill displays the comprehensive knowledge, wisdom, and reverence required to provide informed and practical insight into the art and craft of composing screen music. I believe this to be the only book in which large numbers of significant and original film-score manuscripts have been culled and presented for analysis and celebration."
^DANIEL CARLIN, professor and chair/director, Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television, Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California
"Andy Hill's Scoring the Screen is, like its author, thoughtful, incisive, and full of sohdly interesting insights into the technique, craft, and emotional magic of film scores and the composers who create them. If this is your subject, this is your book."
—BRUCE BROUGHTON; composer
Today, musical composition for films and other visual media is a growth industry in both professional and academic spheres. Undergraduate and postgraduate programs in media scoring are offered by dozens of major colleges and universities internationally. And increasingly, pop and contemporary classical composers are expanding their reach into cinema and other forms of screen entertainment. A search online reveals at least fifty books under the category of film music, yet remarkably, only a few actually allow readers to see the music itself, while none examine landmark scores like Vertigo, To Kill a Mockingbird, Patton, The Untouchables, or The Matrix in the detail provided by Scoring the Screen: The Secret Language of Film Music.
This is the first book since Roy M. Prendergast's 1977 benchmark, Film Music: A Neglected Art, to treat music for motion pictures as a compositional style worthy of serious study. Through extensive and unprecedented analyses of the original concert scores, it is the first to offer aspiring composers, music educators, and media content creators a view from the inside of the actual process of scoring to picture.
The core thesis of Scoring the Screen is that music for motion pictures is indeed a language, developed by the masters of the craft to communicate ideas and emotions instantaneously to an audience. Like all languages, it exists primarily to convey meaning. To quote renowned or-chestrator Conrad Pope (who has worked with John Williams, Howard Shore, and Alexandre Desplat, among others): "If you have any interest in what music 'means' in film, get this book. Andy Hill is among the haiidful of penetrating minds and ears engaged in film music today."
ANDY HILL is a Grammy Award-winning motion picture music producer. From 1987 to 1996, he served as vice president of music production for Walt Disney Pictures. He developed and directed, from 2006 to 2011, the MFA in Music Composition for the Screen at Columbia College Chicago and oversaw the launch of the MA in Scoring for Film, Television, and Video Games at the international campus of the Berklee College of Music. He is an industry advisor and visitmg lecturer for the MA in Film Scoring at Pulse College, Dublin. Hill has published three novels as A. W. Hill and currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
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