When we hear the spooky sound of the theremin our mind invariably turns to images that can be found in…
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In post-World War II Paris there emerged a group of revolutionary filmmakers and cinephiles. Collectively known as the Nouvelle Vague…
The relationship between a director and composer is often a fleeting one. A film is completed, the composer is shown…
Like many other facets of filmmaking, women are severely underrepresented when it comes to the practice of film scoring. An…
One of cinema’s greatest director/composer relationships was that of Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann. The pair first began working together…
Classical music—be it Baroque, Romantic, Modernist or the Classical period itself—is rich in its breadth of musical character and dramatic…
“The score just had to serve the film. You have to make the score sound like the film as much…
On March 4th, 2018, the 90th annual Academy Awards ceremony took place, with folks from all corners of the entertainment…
The piano: an instrument with an evocative and pleasing tone, broad range, and familiar appearance; found everywhere from the family…
