Includes bibliographical references (pages 573-579) and index.
Contents
From silents to sound -- Max Steiner -- Alfred Newman -- Franz Waxman -- Erich Wolfgang Korngold -- Studio arrangements -- Hugo Friedhofer -- Dimitri Tiomkin -- Victor Young -- Miklos Rozsa -- Bernard Herrmann -- The 1940s and 1950s -- Foreign composers -- Alex North -- Elmer Bernstein -- Henry Mancini -- The 1960s and 1970s -- Jerry Goldsmith -- John Williams -- The 1980s -- Appendix: The Academy Awards.