Film Music I

Los Angeles: The Film Music Society. Fine. 1998 (c.1989). Second Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, probably as issued) [nice clean book with no discernible wear]. (B&W photographs, musical examples) A wide-ranging anthology of writings on film music-related topics, including articles, essays, score analyses, interviews, and memoirs, with an introduction discussing the history of "The Literature of Film Music." Contents: "The Materials of Film Music: Their Nature and Accessibility," by H . Stephen Wright; an interview with Gaylord Carter, "the Dean of Theater Organists," conducted by Rudy Behlmer; "Performing with Silent Films," by Dennis (truncated) James; an article discussing and excerpting comments, from the first decade of the talkies, by musicians about the film music of the time; an article by William H. Rosar about Igor Stravinsky's encounters with the American film industry, which began in 1935; an analysis of Max Steiner's score for John Ford's THE INFORMER; "The Music of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers," by Richard H. Bush; a memoir by composer David Raksin, about working at Twentieth Century-Fox; an analysis of Miklos Rosza's score for BEN-HUR (1959); an interview with Bernard Herrmann; "The Film Composer in Concert and the Concert Composer in Film," by Eddy Lawrence Manson. . (Inventory #: 28093)