Scoring the Screen: The Secret Language of Film Music
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (807 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1495073734 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is an industry advisor to the MA in Film Scoring at Pulse College, Dublin. . He developed and directed, from 2006 to 2011, the MFA in Music Composition for the Screen at Columbia College Chicago and oversaw the launch of the MA in Scoring for Film, Television and Video Games at the international campus of the Berklee College of Music. From 1987 to 1996, he served as vice president of music production for Walt Disney Pictures. ANDY HILL (Nashville, TN) is a Grammy Award winning motion pi
Today, musical composition for films is more popular than ever. Yet a search on reveals at least 50 titles under the category of film music, and, remarkably, only a meager few actually allow readers to see the music itself, while none of them examine landmark scores like Vertigo , To Kill a Mockingbird , Patton , The Untouchables , or The Matrix in the detail provided by Scoring the Screen: The Secret Language of Film Music . This is the first book since Roy M. Through extensive and unprecedented analyses of the original concert scores, it is the first to offer both aspiring composers and music educators with a view from the inside of the actual process of scoring-to-picture. Andy Hill is among the handful of penetrating minds and ears engaged in film music today.. Like all languages, it exists primarily to convey meaning . (Music Pro Guide Books & DVDs). In professional and academic spheres, media music study and practice are growing; undergraduate and postgraduate programs in media scoring are offered by dozens of major colleges and universities.
--Christopher Young, Film ComposerWith his book Scoring the Screen, Andy Hill has made an important and truly invaluable addition to an all-too-barren landscape of great literature about great film music. While most analytical books are written by academics, Andy was right there in the thick of things as a member of the Disney music department, while the majority of the scores in the book were actually being recorded. A film score must excel at both to be successful, and this is so beautifully illustrated in Hill s elegant prose. --Robert Townson, Film Music Producer (Varèse Sarabande) . Not to mention, it is so alive with his mad passion for film music. From the selection of scores discussed to the cues within them, and the musical phrases and bars highlighted, I read the book from a very personal point of view. Undoubtedly the most important book on fi