Celluloid Symphonies

Julie Hubbert is Associate Professor of Music at the University of South Carolina.

• Preface Acknowledgments PART ONE. PLAYING THE PICTURES: MUSIC AND THE SILENT FILM (1895--1925) Introduction 1. F.{ths}H. Richardson / Plain Talk to Theater Managers and Operators (1909) 2. Incidental Music for Edison Pictures (1909) 3. Louis Reeves Harrison / Jackass Music (1911) 4. Eugene A. Ahern / from What and How to Play for Pictures (1913) 5. Clarence E. Sinn / Music for the Picture (1911) 6. W. Stephen Bush / The Art of Exhibition: Rothapfel on Motion Picture Music (1914) 7. Edith Lang and George West / from Musical Accompaniment of Moving Pictures (1920) 8. George Beynon / from Musical Presentation of Motion Pictures (1921) 9. Erno Rapee / from Encyclopaedia of Music for Pictures (1925) 10. Two Thematic Music Cue Sheets: The Thief of Bagdad (1924) and Dame Chance (1926) 11. Hugo Riesenfeld / Music and Motion Pictures (1926) 12. Publishers Win Movie Music Suit (1924) PART TWO. ALL SINGING, DANCING, AND TALKING: MUSIC IN THE EARLY SOUND FILM (1926--1934) Introduction 13. New Musical Marvels in the Movies (1926) 14. Musicians to Fight Sound-Film Devices (1928) 15. Mark Larkin / The Truth about Voice Doubling (1929) 16. Jerry Hoffman / Westward the Course of Tin-Pan Alley (1929) 17. Sigmund Romberg / What's Wrong with Musical Pictures? (1930) 18. Verna Arvey / Present Day Musical Films and How They Are Made Possible (1931) 19. Stephen Watts / Alfred Hitchcock on Music in Films (1934) PART THREE. CARPET, WALLPAPER, AND EARMUFFS: THE HOLLYWOOD SCORE (1935--1959) Introduction 20. George Antheil / Composers in Movieland (1935) 21. Leonid Sabaneev / The Aesthetics of the Sound Film (1935) 22. Max Steiner / Scoring the Film (1937) 23. Erich Wolfgang Korngold / Some Experiences in Film Music (1940) 24. Denis Morrison / What Is a Filmusical? (1937) 25. Aaron Copland / Music in the Films (1941) 26. Harold C. Schonberg / Music or Sound Effects? (1947) 27. Theodor Adorno and Hanns Eisler / The New Musical Resources (1947) 28. Arthur Knight / Movie Music Goes on Record (1952) 29. Elmer Bernstein / The Man with the Golden Arm (1956) 30. Louis and Bebe Barron / Forbidden Planet (1956) 31. James Hillier / Interview with Stanley Donen (1977) 32. Alan Freed / One Thing's for Sure, R 'n' R Is Boffo B.O. (1958) PART FOUR. THE RECESSION SOUNDTRACK: FROM ALBUMS TO AUTEURS, SONGS TO SERIALISM (1960--1977) Introduction 33. June Bundy / Film Themes Link Movie, Disk Trades (1960) 34. Eddie Kalish / Mancini Debunks Album Values (1961) 35. Herrmann Says Hollywood Tone Deaf as to Film Scores (1964) 36. Gene Lees / The New Sound on the Soundtracks (1967) 37. Renata Adler / Movies: Tuning In to the Sound of New Music (1968) 38. Ennio Morricone / Towards an Interior Music (1997) 39. Harvey Siders / Keeping Score on Schifrin: Lalo Schifrin and the Art of Film Music (1969) 40. BBC Interview with Jerry Goldsmith (1969) 41. Harvey Siders / The Jazz Composers in Hollywood: A Symposium (1972) 42. Steven Farber / George Lucas: Stinky Kid Hits the Bigtime (1974) 43. Elmer Bernstein / The Annotated Friedkin (1974) 44. David Raksin / Whatever Became of Movie Music? (1974) PART FIVE. THE POSTMODERN SOUNDTRACK: FILM MUSIC IN THE VIDEO AND DIGITAL AGE (1978--PRESENT) Introduction 45. Susan Peterson / Selling a Hit Soundtrack (1979) 46. Craig L. Byrd / Interview with John Williams (1997) 47. Terry Atkinson / Scoring with Synthesizers (1982) 48. Marianne Meyer / Rock Movideo (1985) 49. Stephen Holden / How Rock Is Changing Hollywood's Tune (1989) 50. Randall D. Larson / Danny Elfman: From Boingo to Batman (1990) 51. Interviews from The Celluloid Jukebox (1995) 52. Philip Brophy / Composing with a Very Wide Palette: Howard Shore in Conversation (1999) 53. Rob Bridgett / Hollywood Sound (2005) Index

"Hubbert has provided a useful supplemental resource for those interested in the history of film music." -- M. Goldsmith Choice