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The Best Years of British Film Music, 1936-1958 (Hardcover, English ed.)
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The Best Years of British Film Music, 1936-1958 (Hardcover, English ed.)
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A study of the British contribution to film music, detailing the
idiosyncracies of British film, and showing how the differences
between it and Hollywood affected composers on both sides of the
Atlantic. Jan Swynnoe's study is concerned with the special British
contribution to film music, detailing how the idiosyncracies of
British film, and of the British character, set it apart from its
Hollywood counterpart. She shows how the differences between the
two industries in all aspects of film making variously affected
composers on both sides of the Atlantic. In the mid 1930s, when
film composers in America were perfecting the formulae of the
classical Hollywood score, film music in Britain scarcely existed;
within a year or so, however, top British composers were scoring
British films. How this transformation was brought about, and how
established British concert composers, including Vaughan Williams
and Arnold Bax, faced the challenge of the exacting and often
bewildering art of scoring for feature film, is vividly described
here, and the resulting scores compared with the work of seasoned
Hollywood composers. JAN SWYNNOE researched the material on which
her book is based over several years, at the same time pursuing her
musical life as pianist, percussionist and composer.
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