Hammer Film Scores and the Musical Avant-Garde
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SUMARIO. Maestros : John Hollingsworth, Marcus Dodds and Philip Martell / The horror from Vienna : Arnold Schoenberg / Serial killer : Benjamin Frankel / Modified modernism : Humphrey Searle and Elisabeth Lutyens / The uncanny : Richard Rodney Bennett / Romantics : Harry Robinson and James Bernard / Prehistoric modernism : Mario Nascimbene and Tristram Cary / Australian menace : Don Banks and Malcolm Williamson / Modern gothic : Mike Vickers and John Cacavas / Catching up with the future : Paul Glass / Television terror : John McCabe, Paul Patterson and David Bedford.
This book tells how Hammer Films commissioned composers at the cutting edge of European musical modernism to write their movie scores, introducing the avant-garde into popular culture via the enormously successful venue of horror film. Each chapter addresses a specific category of the avant-garde musical movement (información de la editorial)