Music composed for television had, until recently, never been taken seriously by scholars or critics. Catchy TV themes, often for popular weekly series, were fondly remembered but not considered much more culturally significant than commercial jingles. Yet noted composers like John Williams, Henry Mancini, Jerry Goldsmith and Lalo Schifrin learned and/or honed their craft in television before going on to major success in feature films.

Oscar-winning film composers like Bernard Herrmann, Franz Waxman and Maurice Jarre wrote hours of music for television projects, and such high-profile jazz figures as Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck and Quincy Jones also contributed music to TV series. Concert-hall luminaries from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, and theater writers from Jerome Moross to Richard Rodgers, penned memorable scores for TV.

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Die Tonleiter - Trivialität oder Problem? Das vorliegende Buch geht dieser provokanten Frage nach. Dabei wird schnell klar, dass das Zusammenfügen von Tönen zu "wohlklingenden" Tonsystemen eine Herausforderung darstellt, deren Komplexität ungeahnt viele vernetzte Probleme beherbergt.

While most successful sidemen are lucky to spend a decade in the music business, multi-instrumentalist Mark Rivera is working on his fifth.

Best known as Billy Joel’s saxophonist as well as Musical Director for Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band, Rivera has shared the stage with some of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s greatest performers, including John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Simon & Garfunkel, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Tony Bennett, Sheila E., Joe Walsh, Hall & Oates, and Peter Gabriel.

esign and write algorithms for the analysis, synthesis, and manipulation of musical and acoustic signals for any programming language. It provides an overview of highly interdisciplinary topics developed in a simple but rigorous way, and described in a unified and formal language which focuses on determining discrete-time audio signal models.

Dramaturgy is at the heart of any musical theatre score, proving that song and music combined can collectively act as drama. The Musical Theatre Composer as Dramatist: A Handbook for Collaboration offers techniques for approaching a musical with the drama at the centre of the music.

Written by a working composer of British musical theatre, this original and highly practical book is intended for composers, students of musical theatre and performing arts and their collaborators. Through detailed case studies, conceptual frameworks and frank analysis, this book encourages the collaboration between the languages of music and drama. It offers a shared language for talking about music in the creation of musical theatre, as well as practical exercises for both composers and their collaborators and ways of analysing existing musical theatre scores for those who are versed in musical terminology, and those who are not.

Reel Music, revised for a new generation of movie lovers, tells the story of film music through iconic scenes. The Second Edition features more in-depth exploration of international films―from classics like Seven Samurai to more recent works like Run Lola Run―as well as new suggestions for activities and classroom discussion, and even more Viewer Guides, which show how film music functions moment-by-moment.

Great care has been taken to make all statements as clear as possible for the average student. The less experienced player will find stated here the fundamentals which he needs; and the more proficient violinist will not resent the presence of this groundwork beneath the more advanced stages of advice offered for his profit. The photographic illustrations will reinforce the instructions given, by affording visible standards and models by which the player may criticise his own attitudes and habits of action.

Discover what goes on behind the curtains of your favorite musical

Have you ever dreamed of being in a Broadway musical, or even just to be in the ensemble in your local community theatre? In Musical Theater For Dummies, Broadway insider and host of Sirus/XM Radio’s ON BROADWAY channel Seth Rudetsky takes you backstage and shows you what it takes to create a spectacular production.