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Scoring the Screen
The Secret Language of Music for Film and Visual Media
Series: Music Pro Guides
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This widely acclaimed book enables readers to understand and practise the language of music composed for film, video games, and other visual media. Film and television music veteran Andy Hill offers an insider’s view of what goes into the creation of the musical score for major...
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See moreIndustry veteran Andy Hill provides a close-up look at the musical conventions and tricks-of-the-trade of music for film and video games, providing deeply insightful perspectives.
Industry veteran Andy Hill provides a close-up look at the musical conventions and tricks-of-the-trade of music for film and video games, providing deeply insightful perspectives.
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Description
This widely acclaimed book enables readers to understand and practise the language of music composed for film, video games, and other visual media.
Film and television music veteran Andy Hill offers an insider’s view of what goes into the creation of the musical score for major motion pictures and other works of screen entertainment, including video games. This unique text provides deeply informed, measure-by-measure analysis of highly detailed reductions of music cues from more than two dozen films composed by top composers, among them Howard Shore, Danny Elfman, Ennio Morricone, and Bernard Herrmann, as well as trailblazers of today.
New chapters in the second edition tackle:
- Howard Shore’s Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- The Music of the Disney Renaissance, featuring analyses of Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King
- Women in film music, featuring interviews with Rachel Portman, Pinar Toprak, Natalie Holt, and Stephanie Economou
- Adaptive music for games, featuring analyses of game scores by Austin Wintory (Journey and Abzu), Garry Schyman (Bioshock), and Mikolai Stroinski (The Witcher)
Hill’s powerful insights, informed by music theory and the scenes of composition, as well as first-hand input from many of the artists themselves, enable readers to witness the composition of the score from the first motive to the last bar. This indispensable resource provides a close-up look at the musical conventions and tricks-of-the-trade that composers use to express the full range of human (and sometimes non-human) experience, allowing music students, practising composers, and aficionados of the craft to better understand and hone its power.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781538163474
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 14 May 2026
Country: United States
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Edition: 2nd edition
Illustration: 285 b/w illustrations; 16 b/w photos
Audience: Professional and scholarly
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Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 384
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About the Author
Andy Hill is a veteran of the film and television music industry, former Vice-President of Music Production for Walt Disney Studios, Grammy Award-winning music producer, founder of the MFA program in Music Composition for the Screen at Columbia College Chicago, USA, and author of five published novels of speculative fiction. Films for which he served as executive in charge of music production have earned nine Academy Awards in music categories. He has served as Dean of the Film Scoring Academy of Europe, Bulgaria, since 2019.
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