This enriching anthology, the second of an ongoing series, contains works by some of the leading writers and theorists on the subject of film music.

Film Music 2 includes a broad scope of material from the 1940s to the present. Essays are devoted to the documentary scores of Golden Age composers Virgil Thomson and Aaron Copland; opera films; soundtrack cross-promotion at United Artists; film music as a forum on the Internet; and the teaching of film music in a liberal arts curriculum. Also included in these pages are analyses of scores by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Patrick Doyle; a Film Music Society-sponsored oral history with songwriters Jay Livingston and Ray Evans; a history of the music of Gail Kubik; and a biography of Moog synthesizer artist Paul Beaver.

CONTENTS

Foreword

by Christopher Young, composer (Entrapment, The Grudge) and FMS President

Introduction

by Claudia Gorbman, Professor of Film Studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma

Musical Texture as Cinematic Signifier: The Politics of Polyphony in Selected Documentary Film Scores by Virgil Thomson and Aaron Copland

by Neil Lerner, Associate Professor of Music at Davidson College, North Carolina

Deception's Great Music: A Cultural Analysis

by Peter Franklin, Reader in Music at the University of Oxford

Jay Livingston and Ray Evans: An Interview

by Arthur Hamilton, Oscar-nominated film and popular songwriter ("Cry Me a River," "Sing a Rainbow")

Works of Distinction: The Functional Music of Gail Kubik

by Alfred W. Cochran, Professor of Music at Kansas State University

Paul Beaver: Analog Synthesist Extraordinaire

by Warren M. Sherk, orchestrator and archival music specialist at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library

Linking the Film and Music Industries: Cross-Promotion, the Soundtrack Album, and the Case of United Artists

by Jeff Smith, Director of the Film and Media Studies Program at Washington University, St. Louis

The Opera Films of Daniel Toscan du Plantier

by Michel Chion, composer and filmaker, Paris

Sense and Sensibility: Musical Form and Drama in the Film Adaptation

by Robynn J. Stilwell, music faculty at Georgetown University

Film Music on the Internet: The Origin and Assessment of FILMUS-L

by H. Stephen Wright, Associate Dean of Public Services at Northern Illinois University

Teaching Film Music in a Liberal Arts Curriculum

by Michael V. Pisani, Associate Professor of Music at Vassar College