Brian Satterwhite: Manipulate Me, Please!
Over the past several years, a new word has entered the film music lexicon threatening the functional traditions the craft of scoring was...
Read MoreGateway Scores: Alien
I don’t know if this is a true story. Richard Burton was playing the lead in a comedy on Broadway. Before making his entrance he told...
Read MoreGateway Scores: What Got You “Hooked”?
As a special SCOREcast theme for this last week of June, you’ll see several posts on the Main Page covering a topic that we all love...
Read MoreWeekend Provocation 3
This week’s provocation ties in with Houston’s column yesterday on the re-emergence of outboard hardware in our composing rigs....
Read MoreSilence is Golden
Why is music used here? and What is its function? Before diving headlong into an analytical frenzy surrounding the functions of film music, I want to begin by establishing a frame of reference by which the very existence of film music centers. In doing that one must not immediately look at specific moments in film that are supported by music but rather moments which are not.
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