Film Scoring

Music for the Movies

This is the eagerly awaited, updated and greatly expanded edition of Tony Thomas' popular history of Hollywood film music (from the '30s through the '90s) as viewed through portraits of many of its foremost practitioners.

Includes discussions of the lives, works and influence of people like:

Alfred Newman
Victor Young
Dimitri Tiomkin
Franz Waxman
Miklos Rosza
Max Steiner
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Bernard Herrmann
Hugo Friedhofer
David Raksin
Aaron Copland
Alex North
Elmer Bernstein
Henry Mancini
Leonard Rosenman
Jerry Goldsmith
Lalo Schifrin
David Shire
Bruce Broughton
Basil Poledouris
... and others.

paperback, 280 pages
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