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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
8
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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