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 jazz-influenced 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, Caps asks the seminal questions: How did this kind of active movie scoring evolve from silent films—and where is it headed? These interviews provide a master class in how and why to score a film. Interspersed among the interviews, Caps’s single-subject essays provide concise histories of the use of choral music in films, African American and female film composers, and digital composing software for a new era.
Circa l’autore
John Caps is the author of
Crisis Music: Six 20th Century Composers and
Henry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music.
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