Film Score

October 5, 2017 | Author: Alejandro Loaiza Romero | Category: Film Score, Tempo, Orchestras, Entertainment, Performing Arts
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Film score A film score (also sometimes called background music or incidental music) is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score forms part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects, and comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental or choral pieces called cues which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to enhance the dramatic narrative and the emotional impact of the scene in question.[1] Scores are written by one or more composers, under the guidance of, or in collaboration with, the film's director and/or producer, and are then usually performed by an ensemble of musicians – most often comprising an orchestra or band, instrumental soloists, and choir or vocalists – and recorded by a sound engineer. Film scores encompass an enormous variety of styles of music, depending on the nature of the films they accompany. The majority of scores are orchestral works rooted in Western classical music, but a great number of scores also draw influence from jazz, rock, pop, blues, New Age ambient music, and a wide range of ethnic and world music styles. Since the 1950s, a growing number of scores have also included electronic elements as part of the score, and many scores written today feature a hybrid of orchestral and electronic instruments.[2] Since the invention of digital technology and audio sampling, many low-budget films have been able to rely on digital samples to imitate the sound of live instruments, and many scores are created and performed wholly by the composers themselves, by using sophisticated music composition software. Songs are usually not considered part of the film's score,[3] although songs do also form part of the film's soundtrack. Although some songs, especially in musicals, are based on thematic ideas from the score (or vice-versa), scores usually do not have lyrics, except for when sung by choirs or soloists as part of a cue. Similarly, pop songs which are "needle dropped" into a specific scene in film for added emphasis are not considered part of the score, although occasionally the score's composer will write an original pop song based on his themes, such as James Horner's "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic, written for Celine Dion.

Process of creation Spotting The composer usually enters the creative process towards the end of filming, at around the same time as the film is being edited, although on some occasions the composer is on hand during the entire film shoot, especially when actors are required to perform with or be aware of original diegetic music. The composer is shown an unpolished "rough cut" of the film, before the editing is completed, and talks to the director or producer about what sort of music is required for the film in terms of style and tone. The director and composer will watch the entire film, taking note of which scenes require original music. During this process the composer will take precise timing notes so that he or she knows how long each cue needs to last, where it begins, where it ends, and of particular moments during a scene with which the music may need to coincide in a specific way. This process is known as "spotting".[4] Occasionally, a film maker will actually edit his film to fit the flow of music, rather than the other way around, which is the norm. Director Godfrey Reggio edited his films Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi based on composer Philip Glass's music.[5] Similarly, the relationship between director Sergio Leone and composer Ennio Morricone was such that the finale of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and the films Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time in America were edited to Morricone's score as the composer had prepared it months before the film's production ended.[6] In another notable example, the finale of Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was edited to match the music of his long-time collaborator John Williams: as recounted in a companion documentary on the DVD, Spielberg gave Williams complete freedom with the music and asked him to record the cue without picture; Spielberg then re-edited the scene later to match the music.

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Film score In some circumstances, a composer will be asked to write music based on his or her impressions of the script or storyboards, without seeing the film itself, and is given more freedom to create music without the need to adhere to specific cue lengths or mirror the emotional arc of a particular scene. This approach is usually taken by a director who does not wish to have the music comment specifically on a particular scene or nuance of a film, and which can instead be inserted into the film at any point the director wishes during the post-production process. Composer Hans Zimmer was asked to write music in this way in 2010 for director Christopher Nolan's film Inception;[7] composer Gustavo Santaolalla did the same thing when he wrote his Oscar-winning score for Brokeback Mountain.[8]

Syncing When writing music for film, one goal is to sync dramatic events happening on screen with musical events in the score. There are many different methods for syncing music to picture. These include using sequencing software to calculate timings, using mathematic formulas and free timing with reference timings. Composers work using SMPTE timecode for syncing purposes.[9] When syncing music to picture, generally a leeway of 3-4 frames late or early allows the composer to be extremely accurate. Using a technique called Free Timing, a conductor will use either (a) a stop watch or studio size stopclock, or (b) watch the film on a screen or video monitor while conducting the musicians to predetermined timings. These are represented visually by vertical lines (streamers) and bursts of light called punches. These are put on the film by the Music Editor at points specified by the composer. In both instances the timings on the clock or lines scribed on the film have corresponding timings which are also at specific points (beats) in the composer/conductor score. Digital Sequencer Using a digital sequencer such as Digital Performer, Logic, or Cubase, composers are able to sync music to picture with extreme accuracy using SMPTE timecode. Outlined below is one method using Digital Performer:[10] 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Import the video to score into Digital Performer Place a marker in the sequencer timeline where you wish to "hit" the event in the scene with music. Note the SMPTE timecode (i.e. 01:00:15:23) Note the start and end measure (bars+beats), and set it to an exact beat. If the "end time" (timecode) field is greyed out, click the options button to open it up. Enter the timecode where the downbeat will hit in the "end time" field.

You now will have synchronized an event in the film with a musical event, in time. Written Click Track A written click track is a method of writing bars of music in consistent time values (i.e. 4 beats in :02⅔ seconds) to establish a constant tempo in lieu of a metronome value (e.g. 88 Bpm). A composer would use a written click if they planned to conduct live performers. When using other methods such as a metronome, the conductor has a perfectly spaced click playing in his ear which he conducts to. This can yield stiff and lifeless performances in slower more expressive cues. You can convert a standard BPM value to a written click where X represents the number of beats per bar, and W represents time in seconds, by using the following equation:

Written clicks are expressed using 1/3 second increments, so the next step is to round the decimal to either 0, 1/3, or 2/3 of a second. The following is an example for 88 BPM:

2.72 rounds to 2.66, so the written click is 4 beats in :02⅔ seconds.

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Film score Once the composer has identified the location in the film they wish to sync with musically, they must determine the musical beat this event occurs on. To find this, they use the following equation, where bpm is beats per minute, sp is the sync point in real-time (i.e. 33.7 seconds), and B is the beat number in 1/3 increments (i.e. 49⅔).

Writing Once the spotting session has been completed and the precise timings of each cue determined, the composer will then work on writing the score. The methods of writing the score vary from composer to composer; some composers prefer to work with a traditional pencil and paper, writing notes by hand on a staff and performing works-in-progress for the director on a piano, while other composers write on computers using sophisticated music composition software such as Digital Performer, Logic Pro, Finale, Cubase, or Protools.[11] Working with software allows composers to create MIDI-based demos of cues, called MIDI mockups, for review by the filmmaker prior to the final orchestral recording. The length of time a composer has to write the score varies from project to project; depending on the post-production schedule, a composer may have as little as two weeks, or as much as three months to write the score. In normal circumstances, the actual writing process usually lasts around six weeks from beginning to end. The actual musical content of a film score is wholly dependent on the type of film being scored, and the emotions the director wishes the music to convey. A film score can encompass literally thousands of different combinations of instruments, ranging from full symphony orchestral ensembles to single solo instruments to rock bands to jazz combos, along with a multitude of ethnic and world music influences, soloists, vocalists, choirs and electronic textures. The style of the music being written also varies massively from project to project, and can be influenced by the time period in which the film is set, the geographic location of the film's action, and even the musical tastes of the characters. As part of their preparations for writing the score the composer will often research different musical techniques and genres as appropriate for that specific project; as such, it is not uncommon for established film composers to be proficient at writing music in dozens of different styles.

Orchestration Once the music has been written, it must then be arranged or orchestrated in order for the ensemble to be able to perform it. The nature and level of orchestration varies from project to project and composer to composer, but in its basic form the orchestrator's job is to take the single-line music written by the composer and "flesh it out" into instrument-specific sheet music for each member of the orchestra to perform. Some composers, notably Ennio Morricone, orchestrate their own scores themselves, without using an additional orchestrator. Some composers provide intricate details in how they want this to be accomplished, and will provide the orchestrator with copious notes outlining which instruments are being asked to perform which notes, giving the orchestrator no personal creative input whatsoever beyond re-notating the music on different sheets of paper as appropriate. Other composers are less detailed, and will often ask orchestrators to "fill in the blanks", providing their own creative input into the makeup of the ensemble, ensuring that each instrument is capable of performing the music as written, and even allowing them to introduce performance techniques and flourishes to enhance the score. In many cases, time constraints determined by the film's post-production schedule dictate whether composers orchestrate their own scores, as it is often impossible for the composer to complete all the required tasks within the timeframe allowed. Over the years several orchestrators have become linked to the work of one particular composer, often to the point where one will not work without the other. Examples of enduring composer-orchestrator relationships include Jerry Goldsmith with Arthur Morton, Alexander Courage and Herbert W. Spencer; Miklos Rozsa with Eugene Zador; Alfred Newman with Edward Powell, Ken Darby and Hugo Friedhofer; Danny Elfman with Steve Bartek; David

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Film score Arnold with Nicholas Dodd; Basil Poledouris with Greig McRitchie; and Elliot Goldenthal with Robert Elhai. Others have become orchestrators-for-hire, and work with many different composers over the course of their careers; examples of prominent film music orchestrators include Pete Anthony, Jeff Atmajian, Brad Dechter, Bruce Fowler, John Neufeld, Thomas Pasatieri, Conrad Pope, Nic Raine and J.A.C. Redford. Once the orchestration process has been completed, the sheet music is physically printed onto paper by one or more music copyists, and is ready for performance.

Recording When the music has been composed and orchestrated, the orchestra or ensemble then performs it, often with the composer conducting. Musicians for these ensembles are often uncredited in the film or on the album and are contracted individually (and if so, the orchestra contractor is credited in the film or the soundtrack album). However, some films have recently begun crediting the contracted musicians on the albums under the name Hollywood Studio Symphony after an agreement with the American Federation of Musicians. Other performing ensembles that are often employed include the London Symphony Orchestra (performing film music since 1935)[12] the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (an orchestra dedicated mostly to recording), and the Northwest Sinfonia.[citation needed] The orchestra performs in front of a large screen depicting the movie, and sometimes to a series of clicks called a "click-track" that changes with meter and tempo, assisting the conductor to synchronize the music with the film.[13] More rarely, the director will talk to the composer before shooting has started, so as to give more time to the composer or because the director needs to shoot scenes (namely song or dance scenes) according to the final score. Sometimes the director will have edited the film using "temp (temporary) music": already published pieces with a character that the director believes to fit specific scenes.

Elements of a film score Temp tracks In some instances, film composers have been asked by the director to imitate a specific composer or style present in the temp track.[14] On other occasions, directors have become so attached to the temp score that they decide to use it and reject the original score written by the film composer. One of the most famous cases is Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, where Kubrick opted for existing recordings of classical works, including pieces by composer György Ligeti rather than the score by Alex North,[15] although Kubrick had also hired Frank Cordell to do a score. While North's 2001 is indeed a major example, it is not the sole case of well-known rejected scores. Others include Torn Curtain (Bernard Herrmann)[16], Troy (Gabriel Yared)[17], Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Alan Silvestri)[18], Peter Jackson's King Kong (Howard Shore)[19], and The Bourne Identity (Carter Burwell).[20]

Structure Films often have different themes for important characters, events, ideas or objects, an idea often associated with Wagner's use of leitmotif.[21] These may be played in different variations depending on the situation they represent, scattered amongst incidental music. An example of this technique is John Williams' score for the Star Wars saga, and the numerous themes associated with characters like Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, and Princess Leia Organa (see Star Wars music for more details). Other examples are Italian composers Stefano Lentini and oscar's winner Ennio Morricone.[22] The Lord of the Rings trilogy uses a similar technique, with recurring themes for many main characters and places. Others are less known by casual moviegoers, but well known among score enthusiasts, such as Jerry Goldsmith's underlying theme for the Borg in Star Trek: First Contact, or his Klingon theme from Star Trek: The Motion Picture which other composers carry over into their Klingon motifs, and he has brought back on numerous occasions as the theme for Worf, Star Trek: The Next Generation's most prominent Klingon.[citation needed]

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Film score Michael Giacchino employed character themes in the soundtrack for the 2009 animated film Up, for which he received the Academy Award for Best Score. His orchestral soundtrack for the television series Lost also depended heavily on character and situation-specific themes. In 1983, a non-profit organization, the Society for the Preservation of Film Music, was formed to preserve the "byproducts" of creating a film score:[23] the music manuscripts (written music) and other documents and studio recordings generated in the process of composing and recording scores which, in some instances, have been discarded by the movie studios. The written music must be kept to perform the music on concert programs and to make new recordings of it. Sometimes only after decades has an archival recording of a film score been released on CD.

Source music Most films have between 40 and 120 minutes of music. However, some films have very little or no music; others may feature a score that plays almost continuously throughout. Dogme 95 is a genre that has music only from sources within a film, such as from a radio or television. This is called "source music" (or a "source cue") because it comes from an on screen source that can actually be seen or that can be inferred (in academic film theory such music is called "diegetic" music, as it emanates from the "diegesis" or "story world").[24] An example of "source music" is the use of the Frankie Valli song "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" in Michael Cimino's "The Deer Hunter". Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 thriller The Birds is an example of a Hollywood film with no non-diegetic music whatsoever.

History According to Kurt London, film music "began not as a result of any artistic urge, but from a dire need of something which would drown the noise made by the projector. For in those times there was as yet no sound-absorbent walls between the projection machine and the auditorium. This painful noise disturbed visual enjoyment to no small extent. Instinctively cinema proprietors had recourse to music, and it was the right way, using an agreeable sound to neutralize one less agreeable."[25] Before the age of recorded sound in motion pictures, efforts were taken to provide suitable music for films, usually through the services of an in-house pianist or organist, and, in some cases, entire orchestras, typically given cue sheets as a guide. A pianist was present to perform at the Lumiere brother's first film screening in 1895.[26] In 1914, The Oz Film Manufacturing Company sent full-length scores by Louis F. Gottschalk for their films. Other examples of this include Victor Herbert's score in 1915 to The Fall of a Nation (a sequel to The Birth of a Nation) and Camille Saint-Saëns' music for The Assassination of the Duke of Guise in 1908. It was preceded by Nathaniel D. Mann's score for The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays by four months, but that was a mixture of interrelated stage and film performance in the tradition of old magic lantern shows.[27] Most accompaniments at this time, these examples notwithstanding, comprised pieces by famous composers, also including studies. These were often used to form catalogues of photoplay music, which had different subsections broken down by 'mood' and/or genre: dark, sad, suspense, action, chase, etc. German cinema, which was highly influential in the era of silent movies, provided some original scores such as Fritz Lang's movies Die Nibelungen (1924) and Metropolis (1927) which were accompanied by original full scale orchestral and leitmotific scores written by Gottfried Huppertz, who also wrote piano-versions of his music, for playing in smaller cinemas.[citation needed] Friedrich W. Murnau's movies Nosferatu (1922 - music by Hans Erdmann) and Faust – eine deutsche Volkssage (1926 – music by Werner Richard Heymann) also had original scores written for them. Other films like Murnau's Der letzte Mann contained a mixing of original compositions (in this case by Giuseppe Becce) and library music / folk tunes, which were artistically included into the score by the composer. When sound came to movies, director Fritz Lang barely used music in his movies anymore. Apart from Peter Lorre whistling a short piece from Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt, Lang's movie M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder was lacking musical accompaniment completely and Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse only included one original piece written for

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the movie by Hans Erdmann played at the very beginning and end of the movie. One of the rare occasions on which music occurs in the movie is a song one of the characters sings, that Lang uses to put emphasis on the man's insanity, similar to the use of the whistling in M. Though "the scoring of narrative features during the 1940s lagged decades behind technical innovations in the field of concert music,"[28] the 1950s saw the rise of the modernist film score. Director Elia Kazan was open to the idea of jazz influences and dissonant scoring and worked with Alex North, whose score for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) combined dissonance with elements of blues and jazz. Kazan also approached Leonard Bernstein to score On the Waterfront (1954) and the result was reminiscent of earlier works by Aaron Copland and Igor Stravinsky with its "jazz-based harmonies and exciting additive rhythms."[28] A year later, Leonard Rosenman, inspired by Arnold Schoenberg, experimented with atonality in his scores for East of Eden (1955) and Rebel Without a Cause (1955). In his ten-year collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock, Bernard Herrmann experimented with ideas in Vertigo (1958) and Psycho (1960). The use of non-diegetic jazz was another modernist innovation, such as jazz star Duke Ellington's score for Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder (1959).

Composers Academy Award nominees and winners The following list includes all composers who have been nominated for an Academy Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the Best Original Score category (which, over the years, had gone by a variety of names, included song scores and arrangements, and been split into awards for scoring in dramas and comedies). Winners of the Award appear in bold. Note: Composers whose only Oscar nominations came in the Best Original Song category are not listed, and Best Original Song wins are not counted in the wins tally. •

John Addison (1 win)



George Fenton



John Leipold (1 win)



Ryuichi Sakamoto (1 win)



Larry Adler



Cy Feuer



John Lennon (1 win)



Conrad Salinger



Peter Herman Adler



Jerry Fielding



Alan Jay Lerner



Hans J. Salter



Lynn Ahrens



Stephen Flaherty



Joseph J. Lilley



Buck Sanders



Daniele Amfitheatrof



Lou Forbes



Andrew Lloyd Webber



Gustavo Santaolalla (2 wins)



Louis Applebaum



Ian Fraser



Frederick Loewe



Philippe Sarde



Robert Armbruster



Gerald Fried



Jeremy Lubbock



Walter Scharf



Leo Arnaud



Hugo Friedhofer (1 win)



Michel Magne



Victor Schertzinger (1 win)



Malcolm Arnold (1 win)



Douglas Gamley



Henry Mancini (2 wins)



Lalo Schifrin



Kenny Ascher



Joseph Gershenson



Dario Marianelli (1 win)



Stephen Schwartz (1 win)



Gil Askey



Michael Giacchino (1 win)



George Martin



Morton Scott



Luis Enríquez Bacalov (1 win)



Herschel Burke Gilbert



Muir Mathieson



Caiphus Semenya



Burt Bacharach (1 win)



Philip Glass



Peter Matz



Marc Shaiman



Constantin Bakaleinikoff



Lud Gluskin



Peter Maxwell Davies



Ravi Shankar



Buddy Baker



Ernest Gold (1 win)



Toshiro Mayuzumi



Artie Shaw



Victor Baravalle



Elliot Goldenthal (1 win)



Paul McCartney (1 win)



Al Shean



John Barry (4 wins)



Jerry Goldsmith (1 win)



Rod McKuen



Richard M. Sherman (1 win)



Marco Beltrami



Michael Gore (1 win)



Bill Melendez



Robert B. Sherman (1 win)



Richard Rodney Bennett



Johnny Green (4 wins)



Alan Menken (4 wins)



Nathaniel Shilkret



Robert Russell Bennett (1 win)



Walter Greene



Gian-Carlo Menotti



Howard Shore (2 wins)



Alan Bergman (1 win)



Peter Greenwell



Johnny Mercer



Dimitri Shostakovich



Marilyn Bergman (1 win)



Ferde Grofe



Mahlon Merrick



Leo Shuken (1 win)

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Elmer Bernstein (1 win)



Louis Gruenberg



Michel Michelet



Louis Silvers (1 win)



Leonard Bernstein



Dave Grusin (1 win)



Cyril J. Mockridge



Alan Silvestri



Jay Blackton (1 win)



Vince Guaraldi



Lucien Moraweck



Marlin Skiles



Chris Boardman



Jonas Gwangwa



Angela Morley



Frank Skinner



Ludovic Bource (1 win)



Earle H. Hagen



Giorgio Moroder (1 win)



Paul J. Smith (1 win)



Phil Boutelje



Richard Hageman (1 win)



Jerome Moross



Herbert W. Spencer



Leslie Bricusse (1 win)



Karl Hajos



Ennio Morricone (Honorary Oscar)



Ringo Starr (1 win)



Bruce Broughton



Al Ham



John Morris



Fred Steiner



George Bruns



Marvin Hamlisch (2 win)



Boris Morros



Max Steiner (3 wins)



Ralph Burns (2 wins)



Herbie Hancock (1 win)



Jeff Moss



Leith Stevens



R. Dale Butts



Leigh Harline (1 win)



Javier Navarrete



Georgie Stoll (1 win)



David Byrne (1 win)



W. Franke Harling (1 win)



Anthony Newley



Morris Stoloff (3 wins)



Jorge Calandrelli



George Harrison (1 win)



Alfred Newman (9 wins)



Robert Stolz



John Cameron



Marvin Hatley



David Newman



Gregory Stone



Gerard Carbonara



Isaac Hayes



Emil Newman



Herbert Stothart (1 win)



Charlie Chaplin (1 win)



Jack Hayes



Lionel Newman (1 win)



Cong Su (1 win)



Saul Chaplin (3 wins)



Lennie Hayton (1 win)



Randy Newman



Harry Sukman (1 win)



Frank Churchill (1 win)



Ray Heindorf (3 wins)



Thomas Newman



Alexander Tansman



Cy Coleman



Charles Henderson



Jack Nitzsche



Rod Temperton



Anthony Collins



Bernard Herrmann (1 win)



Alex North (Honorary Oscar)



Max Terr



Alberto Colombo



Jerry Hey



Edward Paul



Ken Thorne (1 win)



Bill Conti (1 win)



Werner Heymann



Frank Perkins



Dimitri Tiomkin (3 wins)



Aaron Copland (1 win)



David Hirschfelder



Nicola Piovani (1 win)



Ernst Toch



Carmine Coppola (1 win)



Joel Hirschhorn



Edward H. Plumb



Peter Townshend



Frank Cordell



Samuel Hoffenstein



Rachel Portman (1 win)



John Scott Trotter



John Corigliano (1 win)



Frederick Hollander



John Powell



Jonathan Tunick (1 win)



Alexander Courage



James Horner (1 win)



André Previn (5 wins)



Vangelis (1 win)



Andrae Crouch



James Newton Howard



Charles Previn



Tom Waits



Mychael Danna (1 win)



Alberto Iglesias



Prince (1 win)



Don Walker



Ken Darby (3 wins)



Mark Isham



A.R. Rahman (1 win)



Oliver Wallace (1 win)



John Debney



Calvin Jackson



David Raksin



William Walton



Georges Delerue (1 win)



Werner Janssen



Sid Ramin (1 win)



Stephen Warbeck (1 win)



Jacques Demy



Maurice Jarre (3 wins)



Raymond Rasch (1 win)



Edward Ward



Alexandre Desplat



Quincy Jones



Joe Renzetti (1 win)



Ned Washington (1 win)



Adolph Deutsch (3 wins)



Jan A.P. Kaczmarek (1 win)



Trent Reznor (1 win)



Franz Waxman (2 wins)



Frank DeVol



Gus Kahn (1 win)



Frederic E. Rich



Kenneth Webb



Robert Emmett Dolan



Bronislau Kaper (1 win)



Nelson Riddle (1 win)



Roy Webb



Patrick Doyle



Fred Karlin



Hugo Riesenfeld



Kurt Weill



Carmen Dragon (1 win)



Marsha Karlin



Richard Robbins



Jerry Wexler



Anne Dudley (1 win)



Al Kasha



Milan Roder



Matthew Wilder



Tan Dun (1 win)



Edward Kay



Heinz Roemheld (1 win)



John Williams (5 wins)



George Duning



Roger Kellaway



Ann Ronell



Patrick Williams



Brian Easdale (1 win)



Randy Kerber



David Rose



Paul Williams



Roger Edens (3 wins)



Jerome Kern



Joel Rosenbaum



Meredith Willson



Hanns Eisler



Erich Wolfgang Korngold (2 wins)



Leonard Rosenman (2 wins)



Charles Wolcott



Danny Elfman



Irwin Kostal (2 wins)



Laurence Rosenthal



Albert Woodbury



Duke Ellington



Kris Kristofferson



Atticus Ross (1 win)



Gabriel Yared (1 win)



Jack Elliott



Francis Lai (1 win)



Nino Rota (1 win)



Victor Young (1 win)



Leo Erdody



Arthur Lange



Gennadi Rozhdestvensky



Hans Zimmer (1 win)

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Yuri Faier



Percy Faith



Michel Legrand (2 wins)



Miklós Rózsa (3 wins)



Larry Russell (1 win)



David Zippel

Source: The Official Academy Awards Database [29]

Other award nominees and winners The following list includes all composers who have been nominated for one of the other major film music awards (Golden Globes, BAFTA Awards, Grammy Awards, Emmy Awards, International Film Music Critics Association), but have never been nominated for an Oscar for their scores (Songwriting nominations are not included in the Oscar nominees list). Winners of an Award appear in bold. •

Panu Aaltio



Ramin Djawadi



Michael Kamen



Víctor Reyes



Neal Acree



Nicholas Dodd



John Kander



Jeff Richmond



Mark Adler



Jim Dooley



Laura Karpman



Max Richter



John Altman



Joel Douek



Victoria Kelly



Kevin Riepl



Elik Alvarez



Johnny Douglas



Rolfe Kent



Sonny Rollins



Armand Amar



Charles Dumont



Wojciech Kilar



Philippe Rombi



Benny Andersson



Robert Duncan



Kaki King



Harold Rome



Oscar Araujo



Bob Dylan



Grant Kirkhope



Dan Romer



Craig Armstrong



Clint Eastwood



Kitaro



Jeff Rona



David Arnold



Fred Ebb



Johnny Klimek



Brett Rosenberg



Chris P. Bacon



Randy Edelman



Mark Knopfler



Lior Rosner



Angelo Badalamenti



Paul Englishby



Krzysztof Komeda



William Ross



Klaus Badelt



Micky Erbe



Abel Korzeniowski



Arthur B. Rubinstein



Lorne Balfe



Kolja Erdmann



Henry Krieger



Pete Rugolo



Roque Baños



Ilan Eshkeri



Kurt Kuenne



The RZA



Gato Barbieri



Harold Faltermeyer



Jesper Kyd



Arturo Sandoval



Lionel Bart



Allyn Ferguson



Robert Lane



Naoki Sato



Steve Bartek



Robert Folk



Christopher Lennertz



David Schwartz



Ben Bartlett



David Foster



Brian Lock



Garry Schyman



Stephen Barton



Charles Fox



Andrew Lockington



Theodore Shapiro



Arnau Bataller



David Michael Frank



Joseph LoDuca



Edward Shearmur



Tyler Bates



Benjamin Frankel



Henning Lohner



Freddy Sheinfeld



Jeff Beal



Dominic Frontiere



John Lunn



Philip Sheppard



Christophe Beck



Peter Gabriel



John Lurie



Kevin Shields



David Bell



Pascal Gaigne



Nuno Malo



David Shire



Richard Bellis



Brian Gascoigne



Johnny Mandel



Ryan Shore



Charles Bernstein



Lisa Gerrard



Chuck Mangione



Clinton Shorter



Howard Blake



Barry Gibb



Hummie Mann



Lawrence Shragge



Terence Blanchard



Scott Glasgow



Clint Mansell



Carlo Siliotto



Todd Boekelheide



Nick Glennie-Smith



David Mansfield



Carly Simon



Pieter Bourke



Murray Gold



Wynton Marsalis



Paul Simon



Simon Boswell



Nick Gold



Peter Martin



Cezary Skubiszewski



Perry Botkin Jr.



Billy Goldenberg



Cliff Martinez



Mark Snow



Steven Bramson



Joel Goldsmith



Rob Mathes



Johan Söderqvist



Jon Brion



Howard Goodall



Curtis Mayfield



Maribeth Solomon



Michael Brook



Miles Goodman



Dennis McCarthy



Jeremy Soule



Joseph Brooks



Ron Goodwin



Bear McCreary



Michael Stearns



Russell Brower



Gordon Goodwin



Mark McKenzie



Morton Stevens



Stephen Bruton



Christopher Gordon



Joel McNeely



Richard Stone



Velton Ray Bunch



Morton Gould



Gil Melle



Marc Streitenfeld

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T-Bone Burnett



Gerald Gouriet



Wendy Melvoin



Charles Strouse



Carter Burwell



Ron Grainer



Sheldon Mirowitz



Marty Stuart



Edmund Butt



Jason Graves



Dudley Moore



Taj Mahal



Brian Byrne



Jonny Greenwood



Zeltia Montes



Tamiya Terajima



Sean Callery



Harry Gregson-Williams



Tony Morales



Mikis Theodorakis



John Cameron



Rupert Gregson-Williams



Andrea Morricone



Third Ear Band



Paul Cantelon



Mark Griskey



Trevor Morris



Mark Thomas



Sam Cardon



Herbert Grönemeyer



Mark Mothersbaugh



Yann Tiersen



Dick Cathcart



Guy Gross



Nico Muhly



Martin Tillmann



Bartosz Chajdecki



Larry Groupé



John Murphy



Chris Tilton



Jay Chattaway



Edo Guidotti



Walter Murphy



Pinar Toprak



The Chemical Brothers



Christopher Gunning



Stanley Myers



Joseph Trapanese



Sylvain Chomet



Arlo Guthrie



Blake Neely



Ernest Troost



The Cinematic Orchestra •

Andrew Hale



Garth Neustadter



Tom Tykwer



Eric Clapton



Simon Hale



Lennie Niehaus



Brian Tyler



Alf Clausen



John P. Hammond



Julian Nott



Bjorn Ulvaeus



George S. Clinton



James Hannigan



Michael Nyman



Marc Vaíllo



Elia Cmiral



Richard Hartley



Hazel O'Connor



Eddie Vedder



Robert Cobert



Paul Haslinger



Mike Oldfield



Fernando Velázquez



Harvey Cohen



Knut Avenstroup Haugen •

Miguel d'Oliveira



Lucas Vidal



Lisa Coleman



Neal Hefti



Riz Ortolani



Joseph Vitarelli



Michel Colombier



Reinhold Heil



Mark Orton



W.G. "Snuffy" Walden



Joseph Conlan



Joe Hisaishi



Karen Orzolek



Don Was



Ry Cooder



Wataru Hokoyama



John Ottman



Shirley Walker



Stewart Copeland



Lee Holdridge



Van Dyke Parks



Mark Watters



Normand Corbeil



Junior Homrich



Larry Paxton



Nigel Westlake



Jane Antonia Cornish



Nellee Hooper



James Peterson



Norman Whitfield



Bruno Coulais



Nicholas Hooper



Jean-Claude Petit



Frederik Wiedmann



Daft Punk



Richard Horowitz



Barrington Pheloung



Kristin Wilkinson



Burkhard Dallwitz



Dick Hyman



Stu Phillips



Nancy Wilson



Jeff Danna



Steve Jablonsky



Winifred Phillips



Stanley Wilson



Mason Daring



Henry Jackman



Martin Phipps



Austin Wintory



Martin Davich



Joe Jackson



Douglas Pipes



Debbie Wiseman



Caine Davidson



Richard Jacques



Michael Richard Plowman •

Stevie Wonder



Carl Davis



Chaz Jankel



Basil Poledouris



Christopher Wong



Don Davis



Elton John



Jocelyn Pook



Alex Wurman



Paco de Lucía



Carl Johnson



Mike Post



Timothy Michael Wynn



Manuel De Sica



Adrian Johnston



Zbigniew Preisner



Christopher Young



Zacarías M. de la Riva



Nathan Johnson



Alan Price



Geoff Zanelli



Barry De Vorzon



Dan Jones



Michael Price



Marcelo Zarvos



Marius de Vries



Ron Jones



Nic Raine



Benh Zeitlin



Vince DiCola



Trevor Jones



Alfred Ralston



Aaron Zigman



James Di Pasquale



Federico Jusid



Brian Reitzell



Atli Örvarsson



Neil Diamond



Graeme Revell

Sources: HFPA Award Search [30], BAFTA Awards Database [31], Primetime Emmy Award Database [32], Grammy Awards Archive [33], IFMCA Awards Archive [34]

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Box office champions The following list includes all composers who have scored one of the 100 Highest Grossing Films of All Time, but have never been nominated for a major award (Oscar, Golden Globe etc.) • • • • • • • • • • •

William Alwyn – Swiss Family Robinson (1960) David Buttolph – House of Wax (1953) Brad Fiedel – Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Alexander Janko – My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) Bill Justis – Smokey and the Bandit (1977) Harald Kloser – The Day After Tomorrow (2004), 2012 (2009) Mark Mancina – Twister (1996) Heitor Pereira – Despicable Me (2010), The Smurfs (2011) Trevor Rabin – Armageddon (1998), National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) Pharrell Williams – Despicable Me (2010) Chris Wilson – My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

Source: Box Office Mojo – All-Time Domestic Box Office Grosses [35], All-Time Domestic Box Office Grosses Adjusted for Inflation [36], All-Time Worldwide Box Office Grosses [37]

Relation with directors Sometimes, a composer may unite with a director by composing the score for many films of a same director. For example, Danny Elfman did the score for all the movies directed by Tim Burton, with the exception of Ed Wood (score by Howard Shore) and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (score by Stephen Sondheim). Other examples are John Williams and Steven Spielberg, Jerry Goldsmith and Joe Dante, Alan Silvestri and Robert Zemeckis, Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch, James Newton Howard and M. Night Shyamalan, Éric Serra and Luc Besson, Patrick Doyle and Kenneth Brannagh, Howard Shore and David Cronenberg, Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer, Carter Burwell and Joel & Ethan Cohen, Harry Gregson-Williams and Tony Scott or Clint Mansell and Darren Aronofsky.

Production music Many companies such as Jingle Punks, Associated Production Music, VideoHelper and Extreme Music provide music to various film, TV and commercial projects for a fee. Sometimes called library music, the music is owned by production music libraries and licensed to customers for use in film, television, radio and other media. Unlike popular and classical music publishers, who typically own less than 50 percent of the copyright in a composition, music production libraries own all of the copyrights of their music, meaning that it can be licensed without seeking the composer's permission, as is necessary in licensing music from normal publishers. This is because virtually all music created for music libraries is done on a work for hire basis.[citation needed] Production music is therefore a very convenient medium for media producers – they can be assured that they will be able to license any piece of music in the library at a reasonable rate. Production music libraries will typically offer a broad range of musical styles and genres, enabling producers and editors to find much of what they need in the same library. Music libraries vary in size from a few hundred tracks up to many thousands. The first production music library was set up by De Wolfe in 1927 with the advent of sound in film, the company originally scored music for use in silent film.[38] Another music library was set up by Ralph Hawkes of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers in the 1930s.[39] APM, the largest US library, has over 250,000 tracks.[40]

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References [1] Savage, Mark. " Where Are the New Movie Themes (http:/ / news. bbc. co. uk/ 1/ hi/ entertainment/ 7525242. stm)?" BBC, 28 July 2008. [4] Film scoring (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=plJ5gEhhnrcC& dq=film+ scoring+ process& pg=PP1& ots=1a0x_Y2I-C& source=citation& sig=LxfILeN928oa-9edfHlx9DsJgS8& hl=en& sa=X& oi=book_result& resnum=11& ct=result) [5] The Creators (http:/ / www. naqoy. com/ naqoy/ creators. asp) [6] SoundtrackNet: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Soundtrack (http:/ / www. soundtrack. net/ albums/ database/ ?id=3475) [7] We Built Our Own World: Hans Zimmer and the Music of 'Inception' (http:/ / www. popmatters. com/ pm/ feature/ 128323-we-built-our-own-world-hans-zimmer-and-the-music-of-inception/ ) [8] TIMBT: Gustavo Santolalla interview (http:/ / www. thenitmustbetrue. com/ gsantaolalla/ gsantaolalla1. html) [9] SMPTE (http:/ / artsites. ucsc. edu/ EMS/ music/ equipment/ video/ smpte/ smpte. html) [10] MOTU.com - Overview (http:/ / www. motu. com/ products/ software/ dp/ film-scoring/ ) [11] Kompanek, Sonny. From Score To Screen: Sequencers, Scores And Second Thoughts: The New Film Scoring Process. Schirmer Trade Books, 2004. ISBN 978-0-8256-7308-5 [12] London Symphony Orchestra and Film Music (http:/ / lso. co. uk/ page/ 3151/ LSO-and-Film-Music) LSO. Retrieved 30 June 2011 [13] Home Recording Glossary: Click Track (http:/ / homerecording. about. com/ od/ recordingglossary/ g/ def_click_track. htm) [14] George Burt, The art of film music, Northeastern University Press [15] 2001 A Space Odyssey - Original soundtrack by Alex North, commissioned but unused by Stanley Kubrick, conducted by Jerry Goldsmith (http:/ / www. mfiles. co. uk/ reviews/ alex-norths-2001-a-space-odyssey. htm) [16] SoundtrackNet: Torn Curtain Soundtrack (http:/ / www. soundtrack. net/ albums/ database/ ?id=841) [17] SoundtrackNet: Article - Gabriel Yared's Troy (http:/ / www. soundtrack. net/ features/ article/ ?id=120) [18] (http:/ / www. filmtracks. com/ titles/ pirates_caribbean. html) [19] Music on Film:: News:: Article in Variety about James Newton Howard's King Kong score (http:/ / musiconfilm. net/ community/ read. php?2,161) [20] The Bourne Identity (http:/ / www. moviemusicuk. us/ bournecd. htm) [21] leitmotif - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary (http:/ / www. merriam-webster. com/ dictionary/ leitmotif) [22] Star Wars and Wagner's Ring (http:/ / www. trell. org/ wagner/ starwars. html) [23] About The Film Music Society (http:/ / www. filmmusicsociety. org/ about/ about. html) [24] The Functions of Film Music (http:/ / www. filmscoremonthly. com/ features/ functions. asp) [25] London. Film Music, p.28. Faber and Faber. Cited in Albright, Daniel, ed. (2004). Modernism and Music, p.96n40. ISBN 0-226-01267-0. [26] Film music: a history By James Eugene Wierzbicki, p.20 [27] Fairylogue was released 24 September 1908; Assassinat was released 17 November 1908 [29] http:/ / awardsdatabase. oscars. org/ ampas_awards/ BasicSearchInput. jsp [30] http:/ / www. goldenglobes. org/ browse/ categories [31] http:/ / www. bafta. org/ awards-database. html?sq= [32] http:/ / www. emmys. com/ award_history_search [33] http:/ / www. grammy. com/ nominees/ search [34] http:/ / filmmusiccritics. org/ awards-archive/ [35] http:/ / boxofficemojo. com/ alltime/ domestic. htm [36] http:/ / boxofficemojo. com/ alltime/ adjusted. htm [37] http:/ / boxofficemojo. com/ alltime/ world/

Further reading • Andersen, Martin Stig. “ Electroacoustic Sound and Audiovisual Structure in Film (http://cec.concordia.ca/ econtact/12_4/Andersen_audiovisual.html).” eContact! 12.4 — Perspectives on the Electroacoustic Work / Perspectives sur l’œuvre électroacoustique (August 2010). Montréal: CEC. • Dorschel, Andreas (ed.). Tonspuren. Musik im Film: Fallstudien 1994 - 2001. Universal Edition, Vienna London - New York 2005 (Studien zur Wertungsforschung 46). ISBN 3-7024-2885-2. Scrutinizes film score practice at the turn from the 20th to 21st century. In German. • Elal, Sammy and Kristian Dupont (Eds.). “ The Essentials of Scoring Film (http://www.minimumnoise.com/ Articles/The-Essentials-Of-Scoring-Film.aspx).” Minimum Noise. Copenhagen, Denmark. • Various contributors [wiki]. “ Films with Significant Electroacoustic Content (http://cec2.ca/cec/econtact/8_4/ films.html).” eContact! 8.4 — Ressources éducatives / Educational Resources (September 2006). Montréal: CEC.

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External links Film music organizations • Film Music Society (http://www.filmmusicsociety.org/) • International Film Music Critics Association (http://filmmusiccritics.org/) Film music review sites • • • • • • • •

Cinemusic (http://www.cinemusic.net/) (cinemusic.net) Filmmusicsite (http://www.filmmusicsite.com) (filmmusicsite.com) Filmtracks (http://www.filmtracks.com/) (filmtracks.com) MainTitles (http://www.maintitles.net/) (maintitles.net) MovieCues (http://www.moviecues.com/) (moviecues.com) Movie Music UK (http://www.moviemusicuk.us/) (moviemusicuk.us) Movie Wave (http://www.movie-wave.net/) (movie-wave.net) MusicWeb International: Film Music on the Web (http://www.musicweb-international.com/film/index.htm) (site closed in December 2006 and remains for archive purposes only) • ScoreNotes (http://www.scorenotes.com/) (scorenotes.com) • Tracksounds (http://www.tracksounds.com/) (tracksounds.com) Journals (online and print) • • • •

Film Music Magazine (http://www.filmmusicmag.com/) Film Music Review (http://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/fmr.htm) The Journal of Film Music (http://www.ifms-jfm.org/) (French) UnderScores : le magazine de la musique de film (http://www.underscores.fr/)

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