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A Word on How to Use This Book

Acknowledgments

Foreword: The Greatest Gig in the World

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

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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
Carmen in Hell: David Newman’s The War of the Roses ................................................................. 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 ........................................... 8
Surgical Precision: Alberto Iglesias’s La piel que habito ............................................................…. 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......................................................................................................................................……