Course Description and General Info
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Guided Reading: Questions to Prepare You for the Exams
Famous Composers and their Film Scores
Instructions for Film/Music Analyses
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Timeline of Music and Drama
Timeline of Early Cinema/Sound History
Film Terminology and Links
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Some Famous Film Composers

(with emphasis on the period since 1950)

Louis & Bebe Barron

  • Forbidden Planet (1956)

John Barry

  • Goldfinger (1964) (and many other Bond films)
  • Out of Africa (1985)

Elmer Bernstein

  • The Magnificent Seven (1960)
  • The Grifters (1990)

Carter Burwell

  • Being John Malkovich (1999)
  • Fargo (1996)

John Corigliano

  • Altered States (1980)

Don Davis

  • The Matrix (1999)

Tan Dun

  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Danny Elfman

  • Batman (1989)
  • Men in Black (1997)

Philip Glass

  • Kundun (1997)

Jerry Goldsmith

  • Planet of the Apes (1968)
  • The Omen (1976)
  • Star Trek The Motion Picture (1979)
  • Alien (1979)

Bernard Herrmann

  • Psycho (1960)
  • Taxi Driver (1975)

James Horner

  • Braveheart (1995)
  • Titanic (1997)

James Newton Howard

  • The Sixth Sense (1999)

Michael Kamen

  • Lethal Weapon (1987)
  • Die Hard (1988)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

  • The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
  • King's Row (1942)

Anu Malik

  • Har Dil Jo Pyaar Karega (2000)

Henry Mancini

  • Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) (including the song Moon River)
  • The Pink Panther (1963)

Alan Menken

  • The Little Mermaid (1989)
  • Beauty and the Beast (1991) (and several other recent Disney musicals)

Ennio Morricone

  • The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1967)
  • The Untouchables (1987)

Alfred Newman

  • The Robe (1950)

Thomas Newman

  • American Beauty (1998)

Alex North

  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  • Spartacus (1960)

Michael Nyman

  • The Piano (1993)

David Raksin

  • Laura (1946)

Leonard Rosenman

  • Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
  • Fantastic Voyage (1966)

Miklos Rozsa

  • Double Indemnity (1944)
  • Ben-Hur (1959)

Howard Shore

  • Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Alan Silvestri

  • Forrest Gump (1994)
  • The Mummy Returns (2001)

Max Steiner

  • Casablanca (1942)

John Williams

  • Star Wars (1977)
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  • Amistad (1997)
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)

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