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| Music for the Movies |
| 2nd Edition Expanded and Updated |
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| Tony Thomas, 330 pages, 6x9, illus., 1-879505-37-1, $19.95
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“Tony
Thomas is the preeminent authority on
film music. Music for the Movies is an essential work for
anyone interested in first-hand knowledge of this unique art form.”
—John Williams
“Music for the Movies is the one book that should be in
the library of anyone interested in learning about this art of the twentieth
century.”
—Elmer Bernstein
“All
of us who compose for films owe Tony Thomas a great debt of gratitude for
being among the first to take
our music seriously and to write about our contribution to the art of
moving pictures with real knowledge and discernment.”
—David Raksin
“Tony
Thomas, a gentleman and a legend, has given us a provocative insight into
the world of film music with
his book Music for the Movies.”
—Basil Poldouris
“For anyone setting out to study film
music I don’t think you could do better than to start with Music for the Movies. It’s the best overview of the history
of the art I’ve seen so far.”
—David Newman
“A
fascinating read for the film music lover.”
—Jerry Goldsmith
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Film
music fans have eagerly awaited this fully updated
and greatly expanded
edition of Tony Thomas’s popular history
of Hollywood film music (from the thirties through
the nineties) as viewed through portraits of
many of its foremost practitioners.
Music for the Movies discusses
the lives, works, and influences of Alfred Newman,
Victor Young, Dimitri Tiomkin, Franz Waxman, Miklos,
Rozsa, 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,
Daivd Shire, Bruce Broughton, Basil Poledouris,
and others.
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Tony Thomas, one of the
most respected authorities on the history of film
music, was a film and record
producer and author. He wrote and
produced numerous television specials, including Hollywood and the American Image (PBS), The West That Never Was (PBS),
and The
Hollywood Soundtrack Story (AMC). He also produced more than fifty recordings of classical and
film music and wrote thirty books, including Film Score: The Art and Craft of Movie
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