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Listening to Movies : the Film Lover's Guide to Film Music by Fred Karlin is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Music Has Been An Essential Part Of Virtually Every Movie Ever Made. In The Words Of The Great Director D.w. Griffith, The Music Sets The Mood For What Your Eye Sees; It Guides Your Emotions; It Is The Emotional Framework For Visual Pictures. Or, As Composer Bernard Herrmann Said, Movies Need The Cement Of Music. Listening To Movies Is The Lay Person's Guide To The Exciting World Of Film Music. Featuring 100 Photographs, Including Stills From Classic Films As Well As Portraits And Candid Shots Of The Creators Of Film Music, This Book Tells How Music For The Movies Is Written, Performed, Recorded, And Mixed; How Composers Work With Directors And Producers; And How The Whole Process Evolved.^ Fred Karlin Surveys The History Of This Very Special Kind Of Music, From The Era When Pianists And Live Orchestras Accompanied Silent Films, Through The Great Days Of The Hollywood Studio Orchestras And The Ground-breaking Work Of Composers Like Korngold, Herrmann, And Rozsa, On To The Present, When Electronic Scores, Crafted Through A Dizzying Array Of High-tech Hardware And Software, Exist Side By Side With Symphonic Scores. Throughout, Karlin Draws On His Interviews With Key Figures In The In

Author
Fred Karlin
Publisher
New York: Schirmer Books ; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International
Published
1994
Language
EN
ISBN
9780028733159
Subjects
Music, History, Arts

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