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The Routledge Film Music Sourcebook
Edited by James Wierzbicki, Nathan Platte and Colin Roust
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The Routledge Film Music Source Book is an annotated, thematically organized collection of approximately eighty source readings pertaining to film music dating from its beginnings to the present, from the US and other select countries around the globe. The documents represent a wide variety of music-related issues that were heatedly debated during cinema’s early decades and which by and large remain of concern today.
Each document is prefaced by a brief introduction that gives details on both the author and the particular issue at hand. Also, each group of documents is prefaced by a longer introduction that puts into historical context the collective information and opinions that follow. The organizational scheme is at the same time chronological and thematic in a pattern that alternates between aestehetic and practical considerations.
About the authors:
James Wierzbicki teaches Musicology at the University of Sydney. Nathan Platte teaches Musicology at the University of Iowa. Colin Roust teaches Music History at Roosevelt University's Chicago College of the Performing Arts.
Press Reviews:
"A useful resource for the history of film music as well as the composers' perspectives on the subject and their own creative purposes in scoring films. Summing Up: Recommended."
--CHOICE, March 2012 (M. Goldsmith, Nicholls State University)
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