Of all the elements that combine to make movies, music sometimes
seems the forgotten stepchild. Yet it is an integral part of the
cinematic experience. Minimized as mere “background music,” film scores
enrich visuals with emotional mood and intensity, underscoring
directors’ intentions, enhancing audiences’ reactions, driving the
narrative forward, and sometimes even subverting all three. Trying to
imagine The Godfather or Lawrence of Arabia with a different score is as
difficult as imagining them featuring a different cast.
In
Experiencing Film Music: A Listener’s Companion, Kenneth LaFave guides
the reader through the history, ideas, personalities, and visions that
have shaped the music we hear on the big screen. Looking back to the
music improvised for early silent movies, LaFave traces the development
of the film score from such early epic masterpieces as Max Steiner’s
work for Gone With the Wind, Bernard Herrmann’s musical creations for
Alfred Hitchcock’s thrillers, Jerry Goldsmith’s sonic presentation of
Chinatown, and Ennio Morricone’s distinctive rewrite of the Western
genre, to John Williams’ epoch-making Jaws and Star Wars. LaFave also
brings readers into the present with looks at the work over the last
decade and a half of Hans Zimmer, Alan Silvestre, Carter Brey, and Danny
Elfman.
Experiencing Film Music: A Listener’s Companion opens
the ears of film-goers to the nuance behind movie music, laying out in
simple, non-technical language how composers and directors map what we
hear to what we see—and, not uncommonly, back again.
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