Auteur: John Caps

Through film composer Henry Mancini, mere background music in movies became part of pop culture–an expression of sophistication and wit with a modern sense of cool and a lasting lyricism that has no …

Story-like chapters profile six twentieth-century "reactive" composers; not the most famous pillars of the period but lesser-known, perhaps more approachable, characters whose stories span …

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 soundtrac …