Format : Book
SKU: HL.194637
ISBN 9781495073731. UPC: 888680641528. 7.0x10.0x1.071 inches. Andy Hill Music Pro Guides.
Today, musical composition for films is more popular than ever. In professional and academic spheres, media music study and practice are growing; undergraduate and postgraduate programs in media scoring are offered by dozens of major colleges and universities. And increasingly, pop and contemporary classical composers are expanding their reach into cinema and other forms of screen entertainment. Yet a search on Amazon reveals at least 50 titles under the category of film music, and, remarkably, only a meager few actually allow readers to see the music itself, while none of them examine landmark scores like Vertigo, To Kill a Mockingbird, Patton, The Untouchables, or The Matrix in the detail provided by Scoring the Screen: The Secret Language of Film Music. This is the first book since Roy M. Prendergast's 1977 benchmark, Film Music: A Neglected Art, to treat music for motion pictures as a compositional style worthy of serious study. Through extensive and unprecedented analyses of the original concert scores, it is the first to offer both aspiring composers and music educators with a view from the inside of the actual process of scoring-to-picture. The core thesis of Scoring the Screen is that music for motion pictures is indeed a language, developed by the masters of the craft out of a dramatic and commercial necessity to communicate ideas and emotions instantaneously to an audience. Like all languages, it exists primarily to convey meaning. To quote renowned orchestrator Conrad Pope (who has worked with John Williams, Howard Shore, and Alexandre Desplat, among others): “If you have any interest in what music 'means' in film, get this book. Andy Hill is among the handful of penetrating minds and ears engaged in film music today.”.
SKU: HL.50565995
ISBN 9781705143391. UPC: 196288018216. 9.0x12.0x0.094 inches.
“For as long as there are poets there will be songs. If someone was to put on my tomb: 'Here lies Francis Poulenc, musician to Apollinaire and Éluard:' that really would be my finest claim to fame,” the composer declared in 1945. Right from boyhood his attraction to poetry was practically equal to his love of music. And in fact the young Poulenc took to songwriting quite naturally, starting in 1919. Poulenc compiled a catalog of 150 songs, a body of works of consistently high quality, containing great diversity, that marks him out as the last major exponent in this genre. These editions belong to “Musique vocale française,” a series devoted to French vocal repertoire – both in original and transposed key – designed for students and teachers as well as professionals; they include original poems and English translations.
SKU: HL.14047663
ISBN 9788850728985. Italian.
This method includes 50 accompaniments of all levels for the Acoustic Guitar. These accompaniments are inspired by some of the greatest guitarists and songwriters of all time; Tim Buckley, Tracy Chapman, Nick Drake, The Eagles, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Ben Harper, Jason Mraz and more.
These rhythms - in addition to the pleasure of playing them - will allow you to become familiar with the various techniques required for playing Acoustic Guitar accompaniments.
The DVD video allows you to listen to and view the above 50 accompaniments at both normal and reduced speeds, giving you the chance to make the right gestures, and choose fingerings that are best suited tothe playing time.
The MP3 CD contains the 50 backing tracks played at two different speeds; the first is normal speed - the speed to be achieved - while the second is reduced to help study.
This Book, CD and DVD set includes more than 6 hours of music in total, giving you the opportunity to practice playing in many possible conditions.
