Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall

Name: Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall is a collection of fifteen essays dealing with \u2018iconic\u2019 film composers who, perhaps to the surprise of many fans of film music, nevertheless maintained lifelong careers as composers for the concert hall. Featured composers include Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Waxman, Mikl\u00F3s R\u00F3zsa, Bernard Herrmann, Nino Rota, Leonard Rosenman, and Ennio Morricone. Progressing in chronological order, the chapters offer accounts of the various composers\u2019 concert-hall careers and descriptions of their concert-hall styles. Each chapter compares the composer\u2019s music for films with his or her music for the concert hall, and speculates as to how music in one arena might have affected music in the other. For each composer discussed in the book, complete filmographies and complete works lists are included as appendices. Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall is accessible for scholars, researchers, and general readers w.