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Danse Macabre: 25 years of Danny Elfman and Tim Burton
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The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films: A Comprehensive Account of Howard Shore's Scores (Book and Rarities CD)
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Music by Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood's Most Influential Composer
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Ennio Morricone: In His Own Words
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John Williams: A Composer's Life
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John Williams's Film Music: Jaws, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the Return of the Classical Hollywood Music Style
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Hitchcock and Herrmann: The Friendship and Film Scores that Changed Cinema
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The Composer in Hollywood
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Settling the Score: Music and the Classical Hollywood Film
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Elmer Bernstein's Film Music Notebook: A Complete Collection of the Quarterly Journal, 1974-1978
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THE MUSIC OF JAMES BOND
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The Music of Star Trek
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Musique Fantastique (Book One): 100 Years of Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror Film Music A Historical Appreciation & Overview
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Double Life
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The Last Prodigy: A Biography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold (20th Century Composers)
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Korngold and His World
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Please Don't Hate Me
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THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: My Life in a Golden Age of Film Music by David Raksin
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Elmer Bernstein, Film Composer: An Authorized Biography
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The Magnificent Elmer
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Alex North, Film Composer: A Biography, with Musical Analyses of a Streetcar Named Desire, Spartacus, the Misfits, Under the Volcano, and Prizzi's Honor
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Did They Mention the Music?: The Autobiography of Henry Mancini
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Henry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music
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The Music of Basil Poledouris
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The Musical World of Marc Shaiman
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Hugo Friedhofer: The Best Years of His Life: A Hollywood Master of Music for the Movies (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series)
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Mission Impossible: My Life in Music
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The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journey & Passions
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Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
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Nino Rota: Music, Film and Feeling
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Aaron Copland's Hollywood Film Scores (Eastman Studies in Music, 169)
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James Bernard, Composer To Count Dracula: A Critical Biography
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Vangelis
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A.R. Rahman: The Spirit Of Music
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Notes of a Dream - The Authorized Biography of A R Rahman
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A.R. Rahman: The Musical Storm
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Jerry Goldsmith - Music Scoring for American Movies
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William Walton: The Romantic Loner: A Centenary Portrait Album
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William Walton: Behind the Facade
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William Walton: Muse of Fire
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William Alwyn: The Art of Film Music
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Composing in Words: William Alwyn on his Art (Musicians on Music, 9)
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The Innumerable Dance: The Life and Work of William Alwyn
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Tin Pan Alley Girl: A Biography of Ann Ronell
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Danny Elfman's Batman: A Film Score Guide
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Max Steiner's Now, Voyager: A Film Score Guide
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Ennio Morricone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Film Score Guide: A Film Score Guide
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Nino Rota's The Godfather Trilogy: A Film Score Guide
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Miklós Rózsa's Ben-Hur: A Film Score Guide
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Leonard Bernstein's On the Waterfront: A Film Score Guide
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Bernard Herrmann's The Ghost and Mrs. Muir: A Film Score Guide
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Elmer Bernstein's The Magnificent Seven: A Film Score Guide
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold's The Adventures of Robin Hood: A Film Score Guide
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Gabriel Yared's The English Patient, A Film Score Guide
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Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard's The Dark Knight: A Film Score Guide
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Jerome Moross's The Big Country: A Film Score Guide
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Alex North's A Streetcar Named Desire: A Film Score Guide
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Mychael Danna's The Ice Storm: A Film Score Guide (Volume 7)
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David Shire's The Conversation: A Film Score Guide
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James Newton Howard's Signs: A Film Score Guide
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Franz Waxman's Rebecca: A Film Score Guide
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Louis and Bebe Barron's Forbidden Planet: A Film Score Guide
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Ilan Eshkeri's Stardust: A Film Score Guide
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Zbigniew Preisner's Three Colors Trilogy: A Film Score Guide
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Understanding the Leitmotif: From Wagner to Hollywood Film Music
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Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
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Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen
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Scored to Death: Conversations with Some of Horror's Greatest Composers /]C[interviews] by J. Blake Fichera
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Scored to Death 2: More Conversations With Some of Horror's Greatest Composers
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Hitchcock s Music
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HOLLYWOOD FILM MUSIC READER
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The Encyclopedia of Film Composers
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Saturday Night at the Movies: The Extraordinary Partnerships Behind Cinema's Greatest Scores
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Inside Film Music: Composers Speak
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Tunes for 'Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon
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The Cartoon Music Book
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Music in Disney's Animated Features: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to The Jungle Book
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MusicHound Soundtracks: The Essential Album Guide to Film, Television and Stage Music [With CD Sampler]
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Music for the Movies
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Soundtrack: The Music Of The Movies
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Overhearing Film Music: Conversations with Screen Composers
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Torn Music: Rejected Film Scores, a Selected History
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100 Greatest Film Scores
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100 Modern Soundtracks
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The Music of Fantasy Cinema
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Reel Music: Exploring 100 Years Of Film Music
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Film Music: A Very Short Introduction
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Film Music: A Neglected Art
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Film Music: A History
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Soul of Cinema, The: An Appreciation of Film Music
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Unsettled Scores: Politics, Hollywood, and the Film Music of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler
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Hearing Film
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The Sound of Pictures: Listening to the Movies, from Hitchcock to High Fidelity
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Listening to Movies: The Film Lover’s Guide to Film Music
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Overtones and Undertones: Reading Film Music
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The Art of Film Music
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Experiencing Film Music: A Listener's Companion
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Movie Soundtracks And Sound Effects
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Twenty Four Frames Under: A Buried History of Film Music
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