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Complete Guide to Film Scoring | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard Davis
Publisher: Berklee Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 47408
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0634006363
Dewey Decimal Number: 781.54213
UPC: 073999494174
EAN: 9780634006364
ASIN: 0634006363
Publication Date: February 1, 2000
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Product Description
An essential resource for both students and professionals, offering shrewd insight into the business, process, and art of writing music for film and TV. Interviews with top film scoring professionals add the priceless insight of the wisdom that comes with experience.
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Great Book. Highly Recommended September 13, 2008
Very informative, and covers everything you need to know about working as a composer in a film industry
An excellent primer March 2, 2008
I'm just getting seriously interested in composition and music for films and I literally knew nothing about the process. This book was an excellent overall primer, was written very plainly and clearly and I walked away feeling like I understood the entire process of film scoring, all the steps involved, people involved, how royalties worked, how to get started, etc. I also really enjoyed the last section which contained many good interviews with seasoned composers. I would definitely recommend this book, especially if you are just getting started.
Excellent Resource, Absolutely Must Read November 21, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've come to recognize that any of the Berklee Press books will be excellent, but this book exceeded my expectation in nearly every way. Even though this is a textbook, it reads easily, and just as important, it is inexpensive. I was expecting a much smaller book for the price, and was surprised by the amount of material covered.
The only negative thing I could say about this book was that I had kind of expected more musical examples and tricks, for example that a whole tone scale is commonly used for dream sequences. There really isn't that kind of material covered in this book at all.
What is covered is the various legal and practical aspects of making film music as a profession, and it is covered very well.
I definitely recommend this book for anyone considering a career in film music, or even to someone who is interested in film music.
Finally, a bit of trivia from the book: Where much of the classical community derides John Williams' Star Wars score as being a rip-off of Holst's Planets, it turns out that Williams actually had to convince Lucas to use original material, in the style of the planets suite, instead of Holst's Planets itself which was the temp track.
wonderful book October 17, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is simply a wonderful book, essential for a composer interested in film sountrack world.
Fantastic insight July 13, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book arrived at my house yesterday, and I have since nearly completed it. I really can't put it down. This book is a real gem, with interviews of the real pros whose work you have certainly already heard. This book really gives you an extensive background of music in movies and a formidable description of what kind of work it REALLY takes to take on such a monumental task. For someone who is interested in film scoring, it shows you just about everything and everyone you will encounter. The interviews towards the back of the book are total gems. This book was a shot-in-the-dark buy, but a real gem. If you write music and you don't own this... you get the idea.
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