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On the Track offers a comprehensive guide to scoring for film and television. Covering all styles and genres, the authors, both noted film composers, cover everything from the nuts-and-bolts of timing, cuing, and recording through balancing the composer''s aesthetic vision with the needs of the film itself. Unlike other books that are aimed at the person dreaming of a career, this is truly a guide that can be used by everyone from students to technically sophisticated professionals. It contains over 100 interviews with noted composers, illustrating the many technical points made through the text.

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'A stupendous book that doesn't scant in offering details about the complex world of the music composition for movies ... It is obligatory reading for the composer that wants to enter the wonderful world of filmscoring.' – Audiomidilab, Community of Music Technology



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Foreword by John Williams I Preliminaries II Conceptualizing III Timings IV Composing V Recording VI Electronic and Contemporary Scoring VII Songs VIII The Business

On the Track

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    A Paperback by Fred Karlin, Rayburn Wright

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Published 1 August 2004
      ISBN-13 9780415941365
      978-0415941365
      ISBN-10 0415941369
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      On the Track offers a comprehensive guide to scoring for film and television. Covering all styles and genres, the authors, both noted film composers, cover everything from the nuts-and-bolts of timing, cuing, and recording through balancing the composer''s aesthetic vision with the needs of the film itself. Unlike other books that are aimed at the person dreaming of a career, this is truly a guide that can be used by everyone from students to technically sophisticated professionals. It contains over 100 interviews with noted composers, illustrating the many technical points made through the text.

      Trade Review

      'A stupendous book that doesn't scant in offering details about the complex world of the music composition for movies ... It is obligatory reading for the composer that wants to enter the wonderful world of filmscoring.' – Audiomidilab, Community of Music Technology



      Table of Contents

      Foreword by John Williams I Preliminaries II Conceptualizing III Timings IV Composing V Recording VI Electronic and Contemporary Scoring VII Songs VIII The Business

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