THE ROUTLEDGE FILM MUSIC SOURCEBOOK

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1 THE ROUTLEDGE FILM MUSIC SOURCEBOOK EDITED BY JAMES WIERZBICKI, NATHAN PLATTE, AND COLIN ROUST Routledge Taylor & Francis Croup NEW YORK AND LONDON

2 Preface Acknowledgments xi xv PART 1 "Silent" Film 1 1 Early Approaches to Film Accompaniment Clarence E. Sinn: "Music for the Picture" (1910) 1.2 Clyde Martin: "Playing the Pictures" (1910) 1.3 Louis Reeves Harrison: "Jackass Music" (1911) 2 Dreams of the Future Carl Van Vechten: "Music for the Movies" (1916) 2.2 "The Surveys of he Film: Music and the Cinema" (1919) 3 Practical Advice in the Heyday of the Silent Film Erno Rapee: "Musical Accompaniment to the Feature Picture" (1925) 3.2 Victor Wagner: "Scoring a Motion Picture" (1926) 3.3 Hans Erdmann: "The Artistic Feature Film and Music: Its Genres" (1927) PART 2 Early Sound Film 53 4 Transitional Concerns Edwin Evans: "Music and the Cinema" (1929) 4.2 Dmitry Shostakovich: "About the Music to New Babylon" (1929) 4.3 Darius Milhaud: "Experimenting with Sound Films" (1930) 5 Accounts of the Sound Film's Early Years Philip K. Scheurer: "Musical Picture Quietly Undergoes Renaissance" (1931) 5.2 Helen Louise Walker: "Musical Pictures Are Here Again" (1931) vn

3 5.3 Edwin Schallert: "Film Music Experiences Its Sanest Development" (1932) 6 Debates on the Future of Music in Sound Films Virgil Thomson: "A Little About Movie Music" (1933) 6.2 Clarence Raybould: "Music and the Synchronized Film" (1933) 6.3 Azary Azarin: "Musical Surprises" (1935) 6.4 Nikolai Kryukov: "The Experience of the Composer" (1936) PART 3 Music in the Classical-Style Film 89 7 Practical Advice as Film Music's "Classical Style" Takes Shape Arthur Benjamin: "Film Music" (1937) 7.2 George Antheil: "On the Hollywood Front" (1938) 7.3 Franz Waxman: "History of Motion Picture Music" (1940) 7.4 David O. Selznick: "Memoranda" (1937, 1941) 8 Aesthetic Squabbles Gianandrea Gavazzeni: "Music and Cinema: An Impossible Marriage" (1943) 8.2 Fedele d'amico: "Music and Cinema: A Difficult Marriage" (1943) 8.3 Erich Leinsdorf: "Music and the Screen" (1945) 8.4 Bernard Herrmann: "Music in Films A Rebuttal" (1945) 8.5 Bosley Crowther: "Heard Melodies" (1945) PART 4 The Postwar Years European vs. American Attitudes Antony Hopkins: "Music: Congress at Florence" (1950) 9.2 Lawrence Morton: "Film Music of the Quarter" (1951) 9.3 Hans Keller: "Hollywood Orchestrators: The Dragon Shows His Teeth" (1951) 9.4 Georges Auric: "How Film Music Was Born and How It Is Made Today" (1952) 10 Foreign Ideas John Cage: "A Few Ideas about Music and Film" (1951) 10.2 Pierre Schaeffer: "Concrete Music" (1954) 10.3 Wang Yunjie: "On Using Musical Instruments in Film Music" (1957) 11 Stylistic Novelties Philip K. Sheurer: "Scorers Skip Classics, Seek New Approach" (1954) vm

4 11.2 John S. Wilson: "Three Movie Scores Issued on LP Disks" (1959) 11.3 Thomas P. Ronan: "British Rattled by Rock 'n' Roll" (1956) 11.4a Mae Tinee: "'Real Crazy' Mansfield in Raucous Film" (1957) 11.4b Mae Tinee: "Films' Appeal is Based on Rock 'n' Roll" (1957) 11.5 Jane Brockman: "The First Electronic Filmscore Forbidden Planet" (1992) 11.6 Martin Bernheimer: "Electronic Strains Reinforce Andromeda Film Score" (1971) PART 5 Changing Times Gloom and Doom Elmer Bernstein: "What Ever Happened to Great Movie Music?" (1972) 12.2 David Raksin: "Whatever Became of Movie Music?" (1974) 13 Plenty of Optimism Charles Champlin: "Sound and Fury over Film Music" (1967) 13.2 Leonard Rosenman: "Notes from a Sub-Culture" (1968) 13.3 Charles Higham: "You May Not Leave the Movie House Singing Their Songs, But..." (1975) PART 6 The Business of Film Music Labor Pains a Howard Kennedy: "Musicians to Picket Two Films in 20 U.S. Cities" (1958) 14.1b Thomas M. Pryor: "Musicians Guild Wins Coast Vote" (1958) 14.1c Anon: "Musicians Guild Wins 14% Hike in Studio Pay (1958) 14.2a Eric Malnic: "Musicians Could Be Left Out When Actors Settle" (1980) 14.2b Anon: "Tentative Pact Reached in Musician Strike" (1981) 14.3a Anon: "AFM, Film Producers Reach New Three-Year Pact" (1990) 14.3b Florence Nelson: "Keeping Film Scoring on Our Shores" (2005) 14.3c Jon Burlingame: "Union Drumbeat's Growing" (2010) 15 Soundtrack Albums Vincent Canby: "Music Is Now Profit to the Ears of Filmmakers" (1966) 15.2 Tom Shales: "The Sound of (Movie) Music: Re-releases of Soundtracks Past" (1976) 15.3 Steven Smith: "Movie Music: Is It Becoming Hit or Miss?" (1986) IX

5 PART 7 A Whole New World New Instruments Jeff Burger: "Synthesizer Upstarts Conquer Hollywood" (1987) 16.2 Lachlan Westfall: "Computers in the Movies: How Desktop PCs Help Create Hollywood's Amazing Music and Sound Effects" (1998) 16.3 Michael Prager: "The Unreal Orchestra, Part 1: The Virtual Film Score" (2004) 16.4 Matt Hurwitz: "Sound for Picture: Hans Zimmer's Scoring Collective Composer Collaboration at Remote Control Productions" (2007) 17 New Methods a Jeff Rona: "Making Soundtracks, Part 1: Those Pesky Songs that Show up in between Your Cues Who Puts 'Em There, Anyway?" (2000) 17.1b Jeff Rona: "Making Soundtracks, Part 2: More on the Differences between the Score and the Soundtrack" (2000) 17.2 Nick Krewen: "Music in Movies and TV: Filling the Bill" (2005) 17.3 Mike Levine: "Music Business Insider: Q&A: Jack Rudy" (2007) PART 8 Today, Tomorrow Findesiecle Donal Henahan: "Film Music Has Two Masters" (1987) 18.2 David Mermelstein: "In Hollywood, Discord on What Makes Music" (1997) 18.3 James Hunter: "Keeping Scores: Good Old-Fashioned Movie Music Is as Healthy as It Ever Was" (1998) 18.4 Catherine Applefeld Olson: "Many Ways to Score" (1999) 19 Onward and Upward? David Schiff: "Taking Movie Music Seriously, Like It Or Not" (2001) 19.2 Dylan Callaghan: "The Soundtrack Game Is Attracting Fresh and Edgy Artists" (2002) 19.3 Jed Distler: "When Is Film Music Classical?" (2007) 19.4 Kevin Cassidy: "Hollywood Composers Tune In for Rare Gathering" (2008) 19.5 Todd Martens: "127 Hours and Other Films Take Experimental Turns in Music" (2010) Notes 307 Contributors 352 Filmography 354 Permission Acknowledgments 373 Index 376