Book Description
An essential resource for both students and professionals, offering shrewd insight into the business, process, and art of writing music for film and TV. Interviews with top film scoring professionals add the priceless insight of the wisdom that comes with experience.


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A comprehensive guide to the business, process, and procedures for writing music for film or television. Includes interviews with 19 film scoring professionals.

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A comprehensive guide to the business, process, and procedures for writing music for film or television. Includes interviews with 19 film scoring professionals.

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Step-by-Step Guide to Film Scoring
This comprehensive guide is essential for anyone interested in the business, process, and procedures of writing music for film or television.

Learn step-by-step the Berklee College of Music approach to the art of film scoring, including such topics as: the film-making process, preparing and recording a score, and the business side of film scoring including contracts, fees, publishing, royalties, and copyrights.

Learn first-hand from interviews with 19 film-scoring professionals such as Michael Kamen (Mr. Holland's Opus, Brazil), Alf Clausen (The Simpsons, Naked Gun), Alan Silvestri (Forrest Gump, Contact), Mark Snow (X-Files, Millennium), and Elmer Bernstein (To Kill a Mockingbird, Airplane, Rainmaker).

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