Overhearing Film Music

Beginning with a quick history of film scoring and then taking the reader backstage to interview a dozen major screen composers Overhearing Film Music represents three generations of movie soundtrack music. Ranging from groundbreaking composers who scored classic 1940s melodramas such as Laura and the Thief of Bagdad to the jazzinfluenced modernists who worked on Rebel Without a Cause and The Pink Panther and into the symphonic renaissance represented by films like Star Wars and Harry Potter Ca