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CONTENTS

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A Word on How to Use This Book


vii

Acknowledgments


ix

Foreword: The Greatest Gig in the World


xi

Introduction: Ancient & Modern: An Appreciation of James Newton Howard’s The Sixth Sense


xv

The Tales That Really Matter: Howard Shore’s The Two Towers

1
From Among The Dead: Bernard Herrmann’s Vertigo

2
Boo Radley’s Porch: Elmer Bernstein’s To Kill a Mockingbird

3
Signs and Meaning: From Rozsa to Desplat

4
Perfume: The Scent of Murder

5
A Tale As Old As Time: Music of the Disney Renaissance

6
Feed Your Head: Don Davis’s The Matrix

7
Such a Long, Long Way to Fall: Danny Elfman’s Alice in Wonderland
Surgical Precision: Alberto Iglesias’s La piel que habito


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9
The Strength of the Righteous: Ennio Morricone’s The Untouchables

10
Toward a New Appreciation of Music for the Screen

11
Through a Glass, and Darkly: Anatomy of a Cue from Jerry Goldsmith’s Patton

12
Stand Up! Two Cues from Elliot Goldenthal’s Michael Collins

13
John Powell Slays a Dragon

14
Outsiders on The Inside: Women In The Clubhouse

15
The Game Has Just Begun: The Infinite Promise of Adaptive Music

16
Against the Odds: The Road to Kraków

17
Afterword

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