Film Music and Beyond

SUMARIO. Preface. // The need for competent film music criticism. // Film music topics. / The psychology of film music / The news and the muse / Featured music : 'classical' quotations / Hollywood music : another view / Hollywood orchestrators : the dragon shows his teeth : (The heiress / Aaron Copland) / From Auden to Hollywood : through route (Born to be bad / Frederick Hollander) / British film music / Film music of the world : Continental, British and American Film music of the world : world review / Film-musical atmosphere / Music in documentary film : the Edinburgh Festival / The film dirge / The simple tune / Noise as leitmotiv / Noisy music and musical noise / Tonal structures : the documentary approach : the function of 'featured' music / Problems of integration / Speech rhythm / Films and the ballet / 'Filmized' opera and oratorio. // Film music composers. William Alwyn : bad and great work (Cure for love ; The rocking horse winner) / Malcolm Arnold oscarred (The bridge on the River Kwai) / Georges Auric at film music's best (La p respectueuse) / Arnold Bax (Oliver Twist) / Arthur Benjamin (The conquest of Everest ; Above us the waves) / Leonard Bernstein (On the waterfront) / Benjamin Britten (Night mail ; A young person's guide to the orchestra) / Anton Karas (The third man) / Joseph Kosma (The case of Dr. Laurent) / Frank Loesser (Hans Christian Anderson) / Gian Carlo Menotti (The medium) / Alan Rawsthorne (West of Zanzibar ; Lease of life ; The drawings of Leonardo da Vinci) / The film-musical art of Renzo Rosselini (Roma, città aperta) / Mátyás Seiber (Graham Sutherland) / Virgil Thomson (Louisiana story) / Ralph Vaughan Williams (Scott of the Antartic) / Roman Vlad (La beauté du diable) / William Walton (Hamlet). // Film music criticism : composite columns. Film music : some / objections / Film music and no film music / Nine Swiss shorts / Chromatic C major / Background and foreground music / Tonal structures : no music. / Television music. Unite, lowbrows! / Personality : BBC and ITV / For or against / Welcome to William Glock / Problem of production / Lunch with Lionel Salter : education, billings and announcements / NATO and Eurovision / ITV steps in -- Producing string players -- New TV opera / The musical future