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1 Composing during rehearsals Star Wars IV John Williams

2 A few film composers to begin with: John Barry (Out of Africa, Dances with Wolves) Elmer Bernstein (Magnificent Seven) Bill Conti (Rocky) Aaron Copland (The Red Pony) Adolf Deutsch (Maltese Falcon) George Dunning (Picnic) Danny Elfman (Batman, Men in Black) Philip Glass (Koyaanisqatsi) Jerry Goldsmith (Chinatown)

3 Bernard Herrmann (Vertigo) James Horner (Beautiful Mind, Thunderheart) Quincy Jones (In the Heat of the Night) Erich Wolfgang Korngold (Adventures of Robin Hood) Henry Mancini (Days of Wine and Roses) Branford Marsalis (Mo' Better Blues) Ennio Morricone (The Untouchables)

4 Alex North (Spartacus) Rachel Portman (Chocolat) Nino Rota (La Dolce Vita) Miklos Rozsa (Spellbound) David Shire (2010) Alan Silvestri (Contact) Max Steiner (Dark Victory)

5 Dimitri Tiomkin (High Noon) Vangelis (Blade Runner) Franz Waxman (Spirit of Saint Louis) John Williams (Star Wars, Close Encounters) Hans Zimmer (Gladiator)

6 Some terms Temp track Foley Locked film Spotting session Pitch Dynamics Consonance Dissonance

7 Major Minor Film driven Plot driven Character driven

8 Sergei Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky Icon Credits End credits Overarching theme Foreshadow

9 Mickey Mousing Onomatopeia Leitmotive 1895 Paris diegetic music orchestration

10 Wipe Fade Cut Dissolve establishing shot Robin Hood

11 Erich Wolfgang Korngold Stinger Laura David Raksin Dark Victory Max Steiner

12 Hugo Friedhofer source music Streamers click track Hitchcock

13 Miklos Rosza Spellbound Psycho 1960 North by Northwest 1959 Vertigo 1958 Rear Window 1964 The Birds 1963 Bernard Herrmann

14 shower scene first electronic film score 1977 Lumière brothers work print A and B films

15 Assignment Read the first five chapters of the text in preparation for the mid-term exam.


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