The Art Of Film Music Book

Introductory Remarks The Story's the Thing Music's Vital Role Should Film Music Be Heard?
The Contrapuntal Aspect The Associative Power of Music Characterization Individual People Groups of People Symbolic Meanings The Emotional Context Ambient Time and Place Source of Music Emphasizing the Dramatic Line Musical Accents The Missing Beat or Pulse Pacing The Sequence as a Unit The Best Years of Our Lives: Homecoming Scene Laura: Apartment Scene East of Eden: Climactic Scene The Sound and Function of Silence: When Music Is Absent Matter-of-Fact Dialogue Psychological Containment Acoustic Space Moments of Anguish The Telling Quality of Ambient Sound The Question of Realism Practical Matters and the Human Element The Spotting Process Timings Synchronization Generalized Compositional Approaches Orchestration and the Orchestra The Synthesizer Music Mix and Dubbing Notes Selected Bibliography Glossary of Musical Terms Index