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

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

Two. From Among The Dead: Bernard Herrmann’s Vertigo …………………………………………………………………

Three. Boo Radley’s Porch: Elmer Bernstein’s To Kill a Mockingbird..........................................................…

Four. Signs and Meaning: From Rozsa to Desplat ........................................................................……………….

Five. Perfume: The Scent of Murder ..............................................................................................................…..

Five. Carmen in Hell: David Newman’s The War of the Roses ...................................................................……

Six. A Tale As Old As Time: Music of the Disney Renaissance ......................................................................…

Seven. Feed Your Head: Don Davis’s The Matrix..........................................................................................…….

Eight. Such a Long, Long Way to Fall: Danny Elfman’s Alice in Wonderland ...........................................…….

Nine. Surgical Precision: Alberto Iglesias’s La piel que habito ..................................................................…….

Ten. The Strength of the Righteous: Ennio Morricone’s The Untouchables.............................................…….

Eleven. Toward a New Appreciation of Music for the Screen ..........................................................................…….

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

Thirteen. Stand Up! Two Cues from Elliot Goldenthal’s Michael Collins ..................................................…….

Fourteen. John Powell Slays a Dragon ..........................................................................................................…….

Fifteen. Outsiders on The Inside: Women In The Clubhouse……………………………………………………………………

Sixteen. The Game Has Just Begun: The Infinite Promise of Adaptive Music ………………………………………….

Seventeen. Against the Odds: The Road to Kraków ..........................................................................................…….

Afterword............................................................................................................................................................…….