The Invisible Art of Film Music A Comprehensive History

by MacDonald, Laurence E.

• ISBN13: 9781880157565
• ISBN10: 188015756X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

A comprehensive introduction to film music for the general student, the film historian, and the aspiring cinematographer. It is a historically structured account of the evolution of music in films. The book is arranged as a chronological survey and includes biographical sketches on many important film composers in addition to the development of the films themselves.

Table of Contents

List of Biographical Sketches	xi
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction
Music and the Birth of Film	1	(1)
The Evolution of Movie Theaters	1	(1)
Music for Silent Films	2	(1)
D. W. Griffith	3	(1)
Combining Sound and Film	3	(1)
Eight Decades of Film Music	4	(1)
Endnotes	4	(1)
1920-29
The Evolution of Synchronized Sound	5	(18)
Prelude Radio	5	(1)
Popular Music	6	(1)
Movies	6	(1)
The Movie Industry Goes West	6	(1)
Valentino's Tango	7	(1)
Dream Street	8	(1)
D.W. Griffith
Early Sound-On-Film Systems	8	(1)
Lee De Forest's Phonofilms	9	(1)
The Sound of Silents	10	(1)
Phonofilm Firsts (and Lasts)	11	(1)
Motion Picture Moods	11	(1)
Erno Rapee
Rival Sound Systems	11	(1)
Warner Bros. and the Birth of Vitaphone	12	(2)
William Fox and the Case-Sponable System	14	(1)
Introducing the Movie Theme Song: ``Charmaine''	15	(1)
The First Talkie: The Jazz Singer	15	(1)
The First Movietone Films	16	(1)
Toward All-Talking Pictures	17	(1)
More Movie Theme Songs	17	(1)
The Transition to Talkies	17	(1)
The Sound-On-Film System	18	(1)
The Broadway Melody: All Talking! All Singing! All Dancing!	19	(1)
A Deluge of Musical Madness	20	(1)
The First Oscars	21	(2)
Postlude Reinventing the Craft	21	(1)
Endnotes	21	(2)
1930-39
The Dawn of the Golden Age	23	(36)
Prelude Radio	23	(1)
Popular Music	23	(1)
Movies	24	(1)
The Advent of Film Underscoring	24	(1)
The Three Godfathers of Film Music	25	(1)
Max Steiner
Alfred Newman	26	(1)
Dimitri Tiomkin	27	(1)
The Decline of the Musical	28	(1)
Early Dramatic Film Scores	28	(1)
Cimarron	28	(1)
Max Steiner
Street Scene	29	(1)
Alfred Newman
Resurrection	29	(1)
Dimitri Tiomkin
Music from Wall to Wall	30	(1)
Max Steiner
Kong Comes Calling	31	(1)
The Return of the Musical	32	(1)
42nd Street	33	(1)
Harry Warren
The First Oscars for Music	33	(1)
Lieutenant Kije	33	(1)
Sergei Prokofiev
Our Daily Bread	34	(1)
Alfred Newman
Jeanette MacDonald Films	34	(1)
The Golden Age Begins	34	(1)
The Informer	35	(1)
Max Steiner
Things to Come	36	(1)
Arthur Bliss
The Advent of Erich Wolfgang Korngold	36	(1)
The Bride of Frankenstein	37	(1)
Franz Waxman
The Formation of Studio Music Departments	38	(1)
The Studio System	39	(1)
The Charge of the Light Brigade	39	(1)
Max Steiner
Anthony Adverse	40	(1)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Modern Times	40	(1)
Charlie Chaplin
Short Cuts	41	(1)
Mythical Places and Exotic Locales	41	(1)
Lost Horizon	42	(2)
Dimitri Tiomkin
The Hurricane and the Prisoner of Zenda	44	(1)
Alfred Newman
Rule Changes for Music Oscars	45	(2)
Short Cuts	45	(2)
Russian Film Music	47	(1)
A Long Career	47	(1)
Dmitri Shostakovich
Alexander Nevsky	47	(2)
Sergei Prokofiev
Jezebel	49	(1)
Max Steiner
The Adventures of Robin Hood	49	(1)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Short Cuts	50	(1)
Gone with the Wind	50	(4)
Max Steiner
The City and of Mice and Men	54	(1)
Aaron Copland
Silvestre Revueltas	54	(5)
La Noche De Los Mayas
Short Cuts	54	(2)
Postlude The Talkies Come of Age	56	(1)
Endnotes	56	(3)
1940-49
World War II and Its Aftermath	59	(54)
Prelude Radio	59	(1)
Television	59	(1)
Popular Music	60	(1)
Movies	60	(2)
The Sea Hawk	62	(2)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
The Great Dictator	64	(2)
Charlie Chaplin
Short Cuts	64	(2)
Raising Kane	66	(5)
Bernard Herrmann
How Green Was My Valley	71	(1)
Alfred Newman
Films About Women	72	(1)
Miklos Rozsa
Short Cuts	72	(1)
Mrs. Miniver	73	(1)
Herbert Stothart
More Patriotic Films	74	(1)
The Magnificent Ambersons	74	(1)
Bernard Herrmann
Kings Row	75	(1)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
The Jungle Book	75	(1)
Miklos Rozsa
Now, Voyager	76	(2)
Max Steiner
Short Cuts	77	(1)
The Song of Bernadette	78	(1)
Alfred Newman
Casablanca	79	(1)
Max Steiner
Five Graves to Cairo	80	(2)
Miklos Rozsa
Short Cuts	80	(2)
Laura	82	(2)
David Raksin
Since You Went Away	84	(1)
Max Steiner
Short Cuts	84	(1)
Miklos Rozsa and the Theremin	85	(4)
Hangover Square	89	(2)
Bernard Herrmann
Short Cuts	90	(1)
The Best Years of Our Lives	91	(2)
Hugo Friedhofer
Deception	93	(1)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Music for Thrillers	94	(3)
Roy Webb
Short Cuts	95	(2)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir	97	(2)
Bernard Herrmann
Crime Films	99	(2)
Miklos Rozsa
Short Cuts	99	(2)
Scott of the Antarctic	101	(1)
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Red Shoes	102	(2)
Brian Easdale
Johnny Belinda and the Treasure of the Sierra Madre	104	(2)
Max Steiner
Short Cuts	104	(2)
The Brooklyn Stravinsky	106	(3)
Aaron Copland
The Three Godfathers: Still Scoring After All These Years	109	(4)
Short Cuts	110	(1)
Postlude The End of the Golden Age	111	(1)
Endnotes	111	(2)
1950-59
The Decline of the Studio System	113	(60)
Prelude Popular Music	113	(1)
Television	114	(1)
Movies	115	(3)
Sunset Boulevard	118	(2)
Franz Waxman
Cyrano De Bergerac and D.O.A.	120	(1)
Dimitri Tiomkin
All About Eve	121	(2)
Alfred Newman
Short Cuts	122	(1)
A Streetcar Named Desire	123	(2)
Alex North
The Day the Earth Stood Still	125	(1)
Bernard Herrmann
From Sci-Fi Film to Thriller	125	(2)
Dimitri Tiomkin
Short Cuts	126	(1)
High Noon	127	(3)
Dimitri Tiomkin
From Scaramouche to the Greatest Show on Earth	130	(2)
Victor Young
Short Cuts	130	(2)
The Robe	132	(2)
Alfred Newman
Three Action Potboilers	134	(1)
Bernard Herrmann
Three Historical Dramas	134	(3)
Miklos Rozsa
Short Cuts	135	(1)
Footnote to 1953	136	(1)
On the Waterfront	137	(4)
Leonard Bernstein
Short Cuts	140	(1)
East of Eden	141	(2)
Leonard Rosenman
The Trouble with Harry and Two Failures	143	(1)
Bernard Herrmann
The Man with the Golden Arm	144	(1)
Elmer Bernstein
Picnic	144	(1)
George Duning
The Night of the Hunter	145	(2)
Walter Schumann
Short Cuts	146	(1)
Around the World in Eighty Days	147	(2)
Victor Young
The Ten Commandments	149	(1)
Elmer Bernstein
Giant and Friendly Persuasion	150	(3)
Dimitri Tiomkin
Short Cuts	151	(2)
The Pinnacle of His Career	153	(3)
Franz Waxman
The Bridge on the River Kwai	156	(3)
Malcolm Arnold
Short Cuts	157	(2)
Great Collaborations	159	(2)
Bernard Herrmann
The Big Country	161	(1)
Jerome Moross
New Kids on the Block	162	(2)
Short Cuts	162	(2)
Ben-Hur	164	(3)
Miklos Rozsa
Journey to the Center of the Earth and North by Northwest	167	(1)
Bernard Herrmann
Some Like It Hot	168	(1)
Adolph Deutsch
Anatomy of a Murder	169	(4)
Duke Ellington
Short Cuts	169	(2)
Postlude Two Rising Stars	171	(1)
Endnotes	171	(2)
1960-69
The Changing of the Guard	173	(50)
Prelude Popular Music	173	(1)
Television	174	(1)
Movies	175	(2)
The Magnificent Seven	177	(3)
Elmer Bernstein
Scores for Historical Epics	180	(1)
Elmer Gantry	180	(2)
Andre Previn
Short Cuts	181	(1)
The Henry Mancini-Blake Edwards Collaboration	182	(2)
Scoring Samuel Bronston's Epics	184	(1)
Miklos Rozsa
Both in and Out of the Saddle	185	(1)
Elmer Bernstein
Short Cuts	185	(1)
The New Wave	186	(1)
Lawrence of Arabia	187	(2)
Maurice Jarre
Two by Elmer Bernstein	189	(1)
And Two by Bernard Herrmann	190	(2)
Short Cuts	190	(2)
Footnote to 1962	192	(1)
Tom Jones	192	(2)
John Addison
How the West Was Won	194	(2)
Alfred Newman
Short Cuts	194	(2)
Footnote to 1963	196	(1)
Becket	196	(2)
Laurence Rosenthal
The Chalk Garden	198	(2)
Malcolm Arnold
Short Cuts	198	(2)
Doctor Zhivago	200	(2)
Maurice Jarre
Music for Epics	202	(2)
Short Cuts	203	(1)
A Composer for All Seasons	204	(3)
Jerry Goldsmith
Fahrenheit 451	207	(1)
Bernard Herrmann
Short Cuts	207	(1)
Cool Hand Luke	208	(2)
Lalo Schifrin
Scoring Hot and Cold	210	(1)
Quincy Jones
Three Spaghetti Westerns	210	(1)
Ennio Morricone
New Directions in Film Music	211	(2)
Short Cuts	212	(1)
The Lion in Winter	213	(2)
John Barry
Romeo and Juliet	215	(1)
Nino Rota
The Swimmer	216	(2)
Marvin Hamlisch
Short Cuts	216	(1)
Footnote to 1968	217	(1)
The Reivers	218	(2)
John Williams
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	220	(3)
Burt Bacharach
Short Cuts	220	(1)
Postlude Passing the Torch	221	(1)
Endnotes	221	(2)
1970-79
The Revival of the Symphonic Film Score	223	(54)
Prelude Popular Music	223	(1)
Television	224	(1)
Movies	225	(2)
From Darling Lili to the Night Visitor	227	(2)
Henry Mancini
Love Story	229	(2)
Francis Lai
Short Cuts	230	(1)
Summer of'42	231	(2)
Michel Legrand
A Resurgence	233	(1)
Bernard Herrmann
A Clockwork Orange	234	(2)
Walter Carlos
Short Cuts	235	(1)
Footnote to 1971	236	(1)
The Godfather	236	(4)
Nino Rota
The Other	240	(1)
Jerry Goldsmith
Deliverance: ``Dueling Banjos''	240	(3)
Short Cuts	241	(2)
The Way We Were and the Sting	243	(2)
Marvin Hamlisch
Papillon	245	(1)
Jerry Goldsmith
The Exorcist	245	(2)
Borrowing Possessed
Short Cuts	246	(1)
Murder on the Orient Express	247	(1)
Richard Rodney Bennett
Francis Ford Coppola Films	248	(2)
Short Cuts	249	(1)
Farewell, My Lovely and the Hindenburg	250	(3)
David Shire
Jaws	253	(1)
John Williams
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	254	(1)
Jack Nitzsche
Short Cuts	254	(1)
Requiem for a Musical Heavyweight	255	(3)
Bernard Herrmann
In Herrmann's Wake	258	(2)
Short Cuts	258	(2)
Celestial Encounters	260	(4)
John Williams
From MacArthur to Damnation Alley	264	(2)
Jerry Goldsmith
Short Cuts	264	(2)
From Coma to Magic	266	(2)
Jerry Goldsmith
From Jaws 2 to Superman	268	(2)
John Williams
Short Cuts	268	(2)
Thriller and Fantasy	270	(2)
Miklos Rozsa
In Outer Space	272	(1)
Jerry Goldsmith
Viva Vivaldi! Three Scores in the Baroque Style	273	(4)
Short Cuts	274	(1)
Postlude The Last Hurrah	275	(1)
Endnotes	276	(1)
1980-89
The Influence of Synthesized Sound	277	(58)
Prelude New Technology	277	(1)
Popular Music	278	(1)
Television	278	(1)
Movies	279	(1)
Raise the Titanic and Somewhere in Time	280	(3)
John Barry
The Empire Strikes Back	283	(1)
John Williams
The Elephant Man	283	(3)
John Morris
Short Cuts	284	(2)
On Golden Pond	286	(2)
Dave Grusin
Raiders of the Lost Ark	288	(1)
John Williams
Ragtime	288	(1)
Randy Newman
Chariots of Fire	289	(1)
Vangelis
Some Things Borrowed, Some Things New: Excalibur	289	(2)
Short Cuts	290	(1)
Conan the Barbarian	291	(3)
Basil Poledouris
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	294	(1)
John Williams
Poltergeist	295	(2)
Jerry Goldsmith
Short Cuts	296	(1)
The Right Stuff	297	(3)
Bill Conti
From Under Fire to Twilight Zone: The Movie	300	(2)
Jerry Goldsmith
Short Cuts	301	(1)
The Natural	302	(2)
Randy Newman
A Passage to India and Dreamscape	304	(2)
Maurice Jarre
Short Cuts	305	(1)
Popular Music in Films	306	(2)
From Small Screen to Big Screen	308	(2)
Bruce Broughton
Short Cuts	309	(1)
The Mission	310	(4)
Ennio Morricone
Hoosiers	314	(2)
Jerry Goldsmith
Short Cuts	314	(2)
Empire of the Sun	316	(3)
John Williams
A Multicultural Score: The Last Emperor	319	(1)
Peter Martin and Borrowed Classical Themes: Hope and Glory	319	(3)
Short Cuts	320	(2)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?	322	(3)
Alan Silvestri
Beetlejuice	325	(1)
Danny Elfman
Rain Man	325	(2)
Hans Zimmer
Short Cuts	326	(1)
Field of Dreams	327	(4)
James Horner
Henry V	331	(1)
Patrick Doyle
Born on the Fourth of July	331	(4)
John Williams
Short Cuts	331	(2)
Postlude An Emphasis on Youth	333	(1)
Endnotes	334	(1)
1990-97
Into the 1990s	335	(44)
Prelude Popular Music	335	(1)
Television	336	(1)
Movies	337	(1)
Dances with Wolves	337	(2)
John Barry
Edward Scissorhands	339	(1)
Danny Elfman
Avalon and Awakenings	339	(2)
Randy Newman
Short Cuts	340	(1)
Beauty and the Beast	341	(2)
Alan Menken
The Prince of Tides	343	(1)
James Newton Howard
Robin Hood---Prince of Thieves	343	(1)
Michael Kamen
From Rambling Rose to Oscar	344	(1)
Elmer Bernstein
Short Cuts	344	(1)
Basic Instinct	345	(2)
Jerry Goldsmith
The Last of the Mohicans	347	(1)
Trevor Jones
Randy Edelman
Short Cuts	347	(1)
Much Ado About Nothing	348	(2)
Patrick Doyle
The Age of Innocence and the Good Son	350	(1)
Elmer Bernstein
Jurassic Park and Schindler's List	351	(2)
John Williams
Short Cuts	351	(2)
The Lion King	353	(4)
Hans Zimmer
Forrest Gump	357	(1)
Alan Silvestri
Legends of the Fall and Clear and Present Danger	357	(2)
James Horner
Short Cuts	358	(1)
Mr. Holland's Opus	359	(4)
Michael Kamen
Two Categories of Film Scores	363	(1)
Short Cuts	363	(1)
Michael Collins	364	(3)
Elliot Goldenthal
Fly Away Home	367	(1)
Mark Isham
The English Patient	368	(3)
Gabriel Yared
Short Cuts	368	(3)
From Men in Black to Good Will Hunting	371	(2)
Danny Elfman
From Rosewood to Amistad	373	(1)
John Williams
The Devil's Own and Titanic	374	(5)
James Horner
Short Cuts	375	(1)
Postlude In Summary	376	(1)
Endnotes	377	(2)
Bibliography	379	(8)
Filmography	387	(16)
General Index	403	(2)
Index of Titles	405	(14)
Index of Names	419