ABOUT THE BOOK

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Table of Contents

A deep dive into the artistry and technique behind film and television music. This updated Second Edition includes newly added pages featuring direct musical reductions from composers’ original scores, offering readers a rare glimpse into the actual structure behind some of the most iconic soundtracks.

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How to use this book

Scoring a film (or any audio-visual project that seeks to affect, persuade, or otherwise "reach" its audience) is a process that begins with an understanding of the filmmaker's intent and proceeds through ideation, development, preparation and realization/recording.

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Methodology

Inspiration may be the mother of musical genius, but analysis is the key to understanding it. By analogy, if we are aspiring Olympic pole vaulters and seek to know how a former gold medalist was able to defy the laws of gravity, we will analyze his performance frame-by-frame.

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Print Edition

Scoring The Screen has a new publisher and some new pages, most of them filled with musical reductions made straight from the composer’s original score, which is the standard for all the music featured in the book.