Author:
Publisher: Tom Barton
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
A Musical Biography of John Williams
Author:
Publisher: Tom Barton
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Publisher: Tom Barton
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The Film Music of John Williams
Author: Emilio Audissino
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780299332341
Category : Motion picture music
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780299332341
Category : Motion picture music
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
John Williams's Film Music
Author: Emilio Audissino
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299297330
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
John Williams is one of the most renowned film composers in history. He has penned unforgettable scores for Star Wars, the Indiana Jones series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Superman, and countless other films. Fans flock to his many concerts, and with forty-nine Academy Award nominations as of 2014, he is the second-most Oscar-nominated person after Walt Disney. Yet despite such critical acclaim and prestige, this is the first book in English on Williams’s work and career. Combining accessible writing with thorough scholarship, and rigorous historical accounts with insightful readings, John Williams’s Film Music explores why Williams is so important to the history of film music. Beginning with an overview of music from Hollywood’s Golden Age (1933–58), Emilio Audissino traces the turning points of Williams’s career and articulates how he revived the classical Hollywood musical style. This book charts each landmark of this musical restoration, with special attention to the scores for Jaws and Star Wars, Williams’s work as conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, and a full film/music analysis of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The result is a precise, enlightening definition of Williams’s “neoclassicism” and a grounded demonstration of his lasting importance, for both his compositions and his historical role in restoring part of the Hollywood tradition. Best Special Interest Books, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Reviewers
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299297330
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
John Williams is one of the most renowned film composers in history. He has penned unforgettable scores for Star Wars, the Indiana Jones series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Superman, and countless other films. Fans flock to his many concerts, and with forty-nine Academy Award nominations as of 2014, he is the second-most Oscar-nominated person after Walt Disney. Yet despite such critical acclaim and prestige, this is the first book in English on Williams’s work and career. Combining accessible writing with thorough scholarship, and rigorous historical accounts with insightful readings, John Williams’s Film Music explores why Williams is so important to the history of film music. Beginning with an overview of music from Hollywood’s Golden Age (1933–58), Emilio Audissino traces the turning points of Williams’s career and articulates how he revived the classical Hollywood musical style. This book charts each landmark of this musical restoration, with special attention to the scores for Jaws and Star Wars, Williams’s work as conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, and a full film/music analysis of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The result is a precise, enlightening definition of Williams’s “neoclassicism” and a grounded demonstration of his lasting importance, for both his compositions and his historical role in restoring part of the Hollywood tradition. Best Special Interest Books, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Reviewers
Strings Attached
Author: William Starling
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
ISBN: 1849544786
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Strings Attached is the much anticipated authorised biography of John Williams, one of the most accomplished and celebrated musicians of his generation. From his childhood in Australia to his stellar career in London and around the world, John Williams has lived an extraordinary life. Master of the classical repertoire, he took the guitar to a wider audience with the band SKY and by his championing of the music of South America and Africa. William Starling came to know John Williams through their mutual friend, jazz guitarist John Etheridge. As their friendship developed, he put it to the maestro that it was time for a biography. To his lasting amazement, the famously private Williams agreed. Strings Attached is the product of extensive research and uniquely privileged access to John Williams, his family, friends and musical associates. It is the first telling of the fascinating life and career of a world-renowned musician and, equally, the story of a man and the making of his identity.
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
ISBN: 1849544786
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Strings Attached is the much anticipated authorised biography of John Williams, one of the most accomplished and celebrated musicians of his generation. From his childhood in Australia to his stellar career in London and around the world, John Williams has lived an extraordinary life. Master of the classical repertoire, he took the guitar to a wider audience with the band SKY and by his championing of the music of South America and Africa. William Starling came to know John Williams through their mutual friend, jazz guitarist John Etheridge. As their friendship developed, he put it to the maestro that it was time for a biography. To his lasting amazement, the famously private Williams agreed. Strings Attached is the product of extensive research and uniquely privileged access to John Williams, his family, friends and musical associates. It is the first telling of the fascinating life and career of a world-renowned musician and, equally, the story of a man and the making of his identity.
John Williams
Author: Emilio Audissino
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
ISBN: 9782503580340
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An interdisciplinary exploration of the many facets of the composer John Williams's output, aimed at showing the range of his production (not merely focussing on film music) and at analyzing the depth of his dramaturgic and compositional skills with selected case studies.
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
ISBN: 9782503580340
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An interdisciplinary exploration of the many facets of the composer John Williams's output, aimed at showing the range of his production (not merely focussing on film music) and at analyzing the depth of his dramaturgic and compositional skills with selected case studies.
John Williams: Biography
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Offers information on the American music composer and conductor John Williams, presented by Sony Music Entertainment Inc. Includes a biographical sketch and explains that Williams is best known as a composer of orchestral music. Lists films for which he has composed musical scores.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Offers information on the American music composer and conductor John Williams, presented by Sony Music Entertainment Inc. Includes a biographical sketch and explains that Williams is best known as a composer of orchestral music. Lists films for which he has composed musical scores.
Bach
Author: Peter Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107139252
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
Peter Williams revisits Bach's biography through the lens of his music, revealing the development of the composer's interests and priorities.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107139252
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
Peter Williams revisits Bach's biography through the lens of his music, revealing the development of the composer's interests and priorities.
John Williams
Author: Alexandre Tylski
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN: 2296461476
Category : Music
Languages : fr
Pages : 220
Book Description
Pour la première fois, un livre regroupe des textes et des témoignages inédits entièrements consacrés au compositeur John Williams. Auteur des partitions de Jaws, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter et Tintin, John Williams est également scénariste musical - pour Wyler, Altman, Eastwood, Speilberg, Hitchcock. Il s'agit d'éclairer ici les multiples labyrinthes et carrefours creusés par ce musicien.
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN: 2296461476
Category : Music
Languages : fr
Pages : 220
Book Description
Pour la première fois, un livre regroupe des textes et des témoignages inédits entièrements consacrés au compositeur John Williams. Auteur des partitions de Jaws, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter et Tintin, John Williams est également scénariste musical - pour Wyler, Altman, Eastwood, Speilberg, Hitchcock. Il s'agit d'éclairer ici les multiples labyrinthes et carrefours creusés par ce musicien.
Mary Lou Williams
Author: Deanna Witkowski
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 0814664016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
In Mary Lou Williams: Music for the Soul, Deanna Witkowski brings a fresh perspective to the life and music of the legendary jazz pianist-composer Mary Lou Williams (1910-81). As a fellow jazz pianist-composer, adult convert to Catholicism, and liturgical composer, Witkowski offers unique insight gleaned from a twenty-year journey with Williams as her chosen musical and spiritual mentor. Viewing Williams’s musical and corporal acts of mercy as part of a singular effort to create community no matter the context, Witkowski examines how Williams created networks of support and friendship through her decades long letter correspondence with various women religious, her charitable work, and her tireless efforts to perform jazz in churches, community centers, concert halls, and schools. Throughout this fascinating story told with equal amounts of deep love and scholarly research, Witkowski illumines Williams’s passionate mantra that “jazz is healing to the soul.”
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 0814664016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
In Mary Lou Williams: Music for the Soul, Deanna Witkowski brings a fresh perspective to the life and music of the legendary jazz pianist-composer Mary Lou Williams (1910-81). As a fellow jazz pianist-composer, adult convert to Catholicism, and liturgical composer, Witkowski offers unique insight gleaned from a twenty-year journey with Williams as her chosen musical and spiritual mentor. Viewing Williams’s musical and corporal acts of mercy as part of a singular effort to create community no matter the context, Witkowski examines how Williams created networks of support and friendship through her decades long letter correspondence with various women religious, her charitable work, and her tireless efforts to perform jazz in churches, community centers, concert halls, and schools. Throughout this fascinating story told with equal amounts of deep love and scholarly research, Witkowski illumines Williams’s passionate mantra that “jazz is healing to the soul.”
Ennio Morricone
Author: Alessandro De Rosa
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190681039
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Master composer Ennio Morricone's scores go hand-in-hand with the idea of the Western film. Often considered the world's greatest living film composer, and most widely known for his innovative scores to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and the other Sergio Leone's movies, The Mission, Cinema Paradiso and more recently, The Hateful Eight, Morricone has spent the past 60 years reinventing the sound of cinema. In Ennio Morricone: In His Own Words, composers Ennio Morricone and Alessandro De Rosa present a years-long discussion of life, music, and the marvelous and unpredictable ways that the two come into contact with and influence each other. The result is what Morricone himself defines: "beyond a shadow of a doubt the best book ever written about me, the most authentic, the most detailed and well curated. The truest." Opening for the first time the door of his creative laboratory, Morricone offers an exhaustive and rich account of his life, from his early years of study to genre-defining collaborations with the most important Italian and international directors, including Leone, Bertolucci, Pasolini, Argento, Tornatore, Malick, Carpenter, Stone, Nichols, De Palma, Beatty, Levinson, Almodóvar, Polanski and Tarantino. In the process, Morricone unveils the curious relationship that links music and images in cinema, as well as the creative urgency at the foundation of his experimentations with "absolute music". Throughout these conversations with De Rosa, Morricone dispenses invaluable insights not only on composing but also on the broader process of adaptation and what it means to be human. As he reminds us, "Coming into contact with memories doesn't only entail the melancholy of something that slips away with time, but also looking forward, understanding who I am now. And who knows what else may still happen."
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190681039
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Master composer Ennio Morricone's scores go hand-in-hand with the idea of the Western film. Often considered the world's greatest living film composer, and most widely known for his innovative scores to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and the other Sergio Leone's movies, The Mission, Cinema Paradiso and more recently, The Hateful Eight, Morricone has spent the past 60 years reinventing the sound of cinema. In Ennio Morricone: In His Own Words, composers Ennio Morricone and Alessandro De Rosa present a years-long discussion of life, music, and the marvelous and unpredictable ways that the two come into contact with and influence each other. The result is what Morricone himself defines: "beyond a shadow of a doubt the best book ever written about me, the most authentic, the most detailed and well curated. The truest." Opening for the first time the door of his creative laboratory, Morricone offers an exhaustive and rich account of his life, from his early years of study to genre-defining collaborations with the most important Italian and international directors, including Leone, Bertolucci, Pasolini, Argento, Tornatore, Malick, Carpenter, Stone, Nichols, De Palma, Beatty, Levinson, Almodóvar, Polanski and Tarantino. In the process, Morricone unveils the curious relationship that links music and images in cinema, as well as the creative urgency at the foundation of his experimentations with "absolute music". Throughout these conversations with De Rosa, Morricone dispenses invaluable insights not only on composing but also on the broader process of adaptation and what it means to be human. As he reminds us, "Coming into contact with memories doesn't only entail the melancholy of something that slips away with time, but also looking forward, understanding who I am now. And who knows what else may still happen."