Music Composition for Film and Television

Lalo Schifrin

Dec 2011 · Hal Leonard Corporation

About this ebook

(Berklee Guide). Learn film-scoring techniques from one of the great film/television composers of our time. Lalo Schifrin shares his insights into the intimate relationship between music and drama. The book is illustrated with extended excerpts from his most iconic scores such as Mission: Impossible , Cool Hand Luke , Bullitt and many others and peppered with anecdotes from inside the Hollywood studios. Schifrin reveals the technical details of his own working approach, which has earned him six Oscar nominations, 21 Grammy nominations (with four awards), and credits on hundreds of major productions. Includes the full score of Schifrin's Fanfare for Screenplay and Orchestra , a treasure-trove of unfettered dramatic sound painting, commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and a great thesis on the emblematic language of film music.

Ratings and reviews

Lalo Schifrin is a legend and this book is full of invaluable knowledge from the man himself. Its content gets 6 stars out of 5 possible, but this ebook version from google get 4 because the musical examples are pictured in a small size, yes you can zoom it and read it but not close enough if you try to play it on your instrument with out scrolling every few measures. Other than that you can zoom the score as far as you can read and then transcribe it manually or in a software such as sibelius to have the full score at a decent size. Great Book for everyone interested in composing, not just film score inclined.