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A Film Score Guide
You already recently rated this item. Your rating has been recorded. Write a review Rate this item: Preview this item Preview this item. Editorial Reviews Review Elfman's original score supports well over half of Tim Burton's two-hour Batman , which is no small achievement. In addition, Elfman proved how effective music can be in what is usually called the "action movie" genre. She analyzes the themes behind Batman and Elfman's effective use of duality in describing a complex character in conflict, set against others clearly good or evil.
Halfyard then works through the score and film scene for scene. Reference and Research Book News Though Scarecrow Press has thus far published three volumes in their Film Score series, hopefully it'll continue further, and perhaps Halfyard will tackle another composer of particular note. Halfyard is a senior lecturer at Birmingham Conservatoire, a faculty of the University of Central England, where she teaches courses in film music, and twentieth century and contemporary music.
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Excellent analysis of a superb film score from one of my favorite film composers--Danny Elfman. David Arnold and John Williams are my other favorite composers. This book is a very interesting read. It is full of details about Danny Elfman's history and how he got to where he is today: I had hopes of learning more about Elfman's compositional style and method.
I had hopes of seeing some of the scores from the "Batman" film in order to study his methods better. That not what I got. There is at best 30 measures of actual music in the book, and of those 30 or so measures they are partial scores that focus on individual individual groups instead of the score as whole.
I had hoped to see plenty of score to study. That is not what I got. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Would you like to tell us about a lower price?
Danny Elfman is recognized as one of the most successful, interesting, and innovative figures in recent film music composition. In addition to this, Elfman has composed music for more than 40 other films, including Somersby , Dolores Claibourne , Good Will Hunting , Men in Black , and Spiderman Beetlejuice was the first mainstream commercial success of the collaboration, but Batman was the film which marked Tim Burton's arrival as a major figure in Hollywood film direction, and equally established Danny Elfman as a film score composer, particularly in relation to action and fantasy genres.
The score for Batman won a Grammy in and is an outstanding example of his collaboration with Burton as well as admirably demonstrating his particular talents and distinctive compositional voice. In particular, it displays the characteristic "darkness" of his orchestration in this genre and the means he uses to create a full length film score from what is often a relatively small amount of musical material, in this case the famous Batman theme. This book examines Elfman's scoring technique and provides a detailed analysis and commentary on the Batman score.
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The film is discussed in the context of its comic-book origins and the fantasy-action genre, setting it and its score against the late s and early s equivalents such as Star Wars and Superman , and revealing how Burton and Elfman between them changed the cinematic idea of what a superhero is. The book also explores Elfman's musical background, his place within the film music industry and the controversy that sprang up following the release of B.
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The Secret Language of Film Music. Elmer Bernstein's The Magnificent Seven: The Emerging Film Composer: John Williams's Film Music: Editorial Reviews Review Elfman's original score supports well over half of Tim Burton's two-hour Batman , which is no small achievement. In addition, Elfman proved how effective music can be in what is usually called the "action movie" genre. She analyzes the themes behind Batman and Elfman's effective use of duality in describing a complex character in conflict, set against others clearly good or evil.
Halfyard then works through the score and film scene for scene. Reference and Research Book News Though Scarecrow Press has thus far published three volumes in their Film Score series, hopefully it'll continue further, and perhaps Halfyard will tackle another composer of particular note.