Description

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In addition to the handful of composers known to the general public, this book brings recognition to the many men and women who have written music for the movies over the past 100 years--those who have not been given their due in previous books and other sources. This volume features more than 250 famous and little-known movie composers from around the world. In addition to providing facts about the composers (dates, biography, careers, complete list of movie credits), the entries explain what makes each composer notable and discusses their music in detail. The selected composers range from the days of silent films when music scores were performed by orchestras in movie palaces to today with synthesized and electronic music being used in film scoring.

About the Author

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Thomas S. Hischak is an internationally recognized author and teacher in the performing arts and one of the foremost authorities on American musical theatre. He is the author of more than twenty books about theatre, film, and popular music, including The Oxford Companion to the American Musical, The Rodgers and Hammerstein Encyclopedia, and several books for Scarecrow Press, including Theatre as Human Action (2006), Off-Broadway Musicals since 1919 (2011), and The Disney Song Encyclopedia (2009). Hischak is professor of theatre at the State University of New York College at Cortland.