Scoring the Screen: The Secret Language of Film Music

By Andy Hill

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 r

• Language: English
• Publisher: RowmanLittlefield
• Release date: Jul 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781540004826

Andy Hill

ANDY HILL (Nashville, TN) is a Grammy Award winning motion picture music producer. From 1987 to 1996, he served as vice president of music production for Walt Disney Pictures. He developed and directed, from 2006 to 2011, the MFA in Music Composition for the Screen at Columbia College Chicago and oversaw the launch of the MA in Scoring for Film, Television and Video Games at the international campus of the Berklee College of Music. He is an industry advisor to the MA in Film Scoring at Pulse College, Dublin.

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[Rowan McJimsey · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I am a jazz pianist with no classical background (besides the occasional read-through of a Bach prelude). I recently got into film composing to kind of branch out a bit, so I picked up this book. It has a lot of classical concepts, which is fine, but the author really makes it sound like you need to be a classical musician to be a film composer, which is not true. I also thought this book is written WAY too academically, which makes it a bit hard to understand in some cases. I think that Jeremy Borum and Richard Davis' books on the subject are much easier to understand. However, as a musician, I get the theory concepts very well , and he explains it well, but this whole thing about "needing to be a classical musician" turned me away about half way through.

This is not to say that you should not read it — I think you definitely should, it's just a bit discouraging for some people.