Music by Max Steiner : the epic life of Hollywood's most influential composer / Steven C Smith.
"During a seven-decade career that spanned from 19th century Vienna to 1920s Broadway to the golden age of Hollywood, three-time Academy Award winner Max Steiner did more than any other composer to introduce and establish the language of film music. Indeed, revered contemporary film composers l...
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Oxford University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1
- 1. Elegant Revolutions
- 2. Heir Apparent
- PART TWO The Wanderer
- 3. Come Over Here
- 4. Stairway to Paradise
- 5. Roaring in the Twenties
- PART THREE The Apprentice
- 6. Where Does the Music Come From?
- 7. Revolution
- 8. Startling, Unusual Sensation
- 9. Orchids in the Moonlight
- 10. Working Night and Day
- PART FOUR Emperor
- 11. Monarch of Sound
- 12. Exodus
- 13. Battles Won and Lost
- 14. The Right Place to Be.
- 15. Fighting for Steiner
- 16. The South Is Dead
- 17. Breaking Point
- 18. Voyage into Fog
- 19. Yours, Herman Hupfeld
- 20. Sucker
- 21. Au Revoir and Bonjour
- 22. Indian Summer
- 23. Falling Star
- PART FIVE Twilight of the Gods
- 24. A Jewish Aloha
- 25. Götterdämmerung
- 26. Coda.