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Drum and Drone Atmospherists: (Millenials not big on melody): Marco Beltrami Trevor Rabin Steve Jablonsky Ramin Djawadi Clint Mansell Eric Serra Plinky, Plunky, Tinkle and Drone: (scores featuring light scoring with pianissimo performance and synth drones) Thomas Newman James Horner Marco Beltrami Mychael Danna Danny Elfman Clint Mansell Eric Serra Alan Silvestri Ladies at work in Film Scoring: Rachel Portman (Chocolat, The Duchess, Re-makes of Oliver Twist, The Manchurian Candidate, Mona Lisa Smile, Nichola Nickelby, The Cider House Rules, The Joy Luck Club, Benny and Joon) Lisa Gerrard (Gladiator, The Insider, Whale Rider, Mis- sion Impossble 2)

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Drum and Drone Atmospherists: (Millenials not big on melody): Marco Beltrami Trevor Rabin Steve Jablonsky Ramin Djawadi Clint Mansell Eric Serra Plinky, Plunky, Tinkle and Drone: (scores featuring light scoring with pianissimo performance and synth drones) Thomas Newman James Horner Marco Beltrami Mychael Danna Danny Elfman Clint Mansell Eric Serra Alan Silvestri Ladies at work in Film Scoring: Rachel Portman (Chocolat, The Duchess, Re-makes of Oliver Twist, The Manchurian Candidate, Mona Lisa Smile, Nichola Nickelby, The Cider House Rules, The Joy Luck Club, Benny and Joon) Lisa Gerrard (Gladiator, The Insider, Whale Rider, Mis-sion Impossble 2)

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Debbie Wiseman (incredibly busy in TV for 20 years, mainly in England) Deborah Lurie (Safe Haven, Dear John, Mozart and the Whale, Spider Man 3, Wanted) Angela Morley (Watership Down, The Little Prince, very busy in TV) Shirley Walker (very busy in TV) Wendy (RE: Walter) Carlos (A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Tron [1982]) Vivian Kubrick (Full Metal Jacket) Jocelyn Pook (The Merchant of Venice [2004], Eyes Wide Shut) Anne Dudley (Poldark - TV, Tristan and Isolde, Ameri-can History X, The Full Monty, The Crying Game) Lesley Barber (Canadian - Marion Bridge, Mansfield Park, Turning April, You Can Count On Me) Wendy Melvoin (very busy in TV) Aimee Mann (Magnolia, Jerry Maguire, The Jane Aus-ten Book Club, The Fighter) Director Composer’s (Director’s who also compose music): Charles Chaplin Clint Eastwood John Carpenter Director-Composer Collaborations (composers and directors who worked together frequently):

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Alfred Hitchcock - Bernard Herrmann (‘Vertigo’, ‘Trou-ble with Harry’, ‘Psycho’, ‘Marnie’, etc.) Steven Spielberg - John Williams (‘Jaws’, ‘Close En-counters’, ‘E.T.’, ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’, etc.) David Lean - Maurice Jarre (‘Lawrence of Arabia’, ‘Dr. Zhivago’, ‘Ryan’s Daughter’, ‘A Passage To India’) Frank Capra - Dimitri Tiomkin (‘Lost Horizon’ [1937], ‘Mr. Smith Goes To Washington’, ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’, etc.) Billy Wilder - Miklos Rozsa (‘5 Graves to Cairo’, ‘Double Indemnity’, ‘The Lost Week-End’) Orson Welles - Bernard Herrmann (‘Mercury Theatre’ [radio], ‘Citizen Kane’, ‘The Magnficent Ambersons’, Francois Truffaut - Georges Delerue (‘Shoot the Piano Player’, ‘Jules et Jim’, ‘Day For Night’, Confidentially Yours..) Tim Burton - Danny Elfman (‘Batman’ [1989], ‘Edward Scissorhand’, ‘Mars Attacks’, ‘Corpse Bride’, etc.) Jacques Demy - Michel Legrand (‘Lola’, ‘Les Paraplu-ies De Cherbourg’, ‘Les Demoiselles De Rochefort’, etc.) Stanley Kramer - Ernest Gold (‘The Defiant Ones’, ‘On the Beach’, ‘Judgment at Nuremberg’, ‘It’s a Mad, Mad World’) The Coen Brothers - Carter Burwell (‘Fargo’, ‘The Big Lebowski’, ‘True Grit’ [2010], ‘No Country For Old Men’, etc.)

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Sergio Leone - Ennio Morricone (‘A Fistful of Dollars’, ‘For a Few Dollars More’, ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’...) Blake Edwards - Henry Mancini (‘Peter Gunn’ [TV], ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’, ‘Experiment in Terror’, ‘The Pink Panther’) Cecil B. DeMille - Victor Young (‘The Greatest Show On Earth’, ‘Samson and Delilah’, ‘Reap the Wild Wind’, etc.) Franklin Schaffner - Jerry Goldsmith (‘Planet of the Apes’ [1968], ‘Patton’, ‘Islands in the Stream’, ‘Papil-lon’) Kenneth Branagh - Patrick Doyle (‘Henry V’ [1990], ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ [1993], ‘Hamlet’ [1996], etc.) James Cameron - James Horner (‘Aliens’, ‘Titanic’, ‘Av-atar’) Robert Zemekis - Alan Silvestri (‘Back to the Future’ [Trilogy], ‘Forrest Gump’, ‘Contact’, ‘Flight’, etc.) Christopher Nolan - Hans Zimmer (‘Batman Begins’, ‘Inception’, ‘Dark Knight’, ‘Dark Knight Rises’, ‘Interstel-lar’) Luc Besson - Eric Serra (‘Nikita’, ‘The Big Blue’, ‘Leon: The Professional’, ‘The Fifth Element’, ‘Lucy’, etc.) Federico Fellini - Nino Rota (‘Roma’, ‘Satyricon’, ‘La Dolce Vita’, ‘8 1/2’, ‘Casanova’, ‘La Strada’, Juliet of the Spirits’) Studio-Composer Relationships: Alfred Newman - 20th Century-Fox (1950-1970)

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Miklos Rozsa - MGM (1949-1967) Dimitri Tiomkin - Warner Brothers (1951-1955) Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Warner Brothers (1934-1938) Bernard Herrmann - 20th Century-Fox Victor Young - Paramount Herbert Stothart - MGM Frank Skinner - Universal Roy Webb - Republic Poor to Mediocre Fllms, Tremendous Music: Logan’s Run Lord of the Rings (1978) The Black Hole Conan the Barbarian (1982) Silverado Legend (1985) Hook Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves Planet of the Apes (2001) The Village (2004) One Score Wonders (composer’s who wrote one particular score which stands out from all or most of their other works): The Pride and the Passion - Anthiel The Horse Solders - David Buttolph Night of the Hunter - Walter Schumann

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Moby Dick - Philip Sainton Hercules - Enzo Masetti The Time Machine (1960) - Russell Garcia Le Voyage en Balloon - Georges Produmides Gorgo - Angelo Francesco Lavagnino Battle of the Bulge - Benjamin Frankel War and Peace (1968) - Yacheslav Ovchinkov The Madwoman of Chailllot - Michael J. Lewis The Royal Hunt of the Sun - Marc Wilkinson The LIghthorsemen - Mario Millo Man in the Wilderness - Johnny Harris Jeremiah Johnson - John Rubinstein / Tim McIntyre Silent Running - Peter Schikele O Lucky Man - Alan Price Brother Sun, Sister Moon - Donovan Friends - Elton John Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid - Bob Dylan Apocalypse Now - Carmine Coppola / The Doors / Mickey Hart / Rolling Stones The Stunt Man - Dominic Frontiere Conan the Barbarian - Poledouris Quest For Fire - Sarde Rumble Fish - Stewart Copeland Silverado - Bruce Broughton Winds of Desire - Laurent Petitgrand Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves - Kamen Last of the Mohicans (1992) - Randy Edelman / Trevor Jones / Daniel Lanois Local Hero - Knopfler

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The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain - Stephen Endelman Ronin - Elia Cmiral The 3 Faces of Eve - Robert Emmett Dolan The Stalking Moon - Fred Karlin The Lonely Man - Nathan Van Cleave Michael Collins - Elliott Goldenthal Funeral In Berlin - Konrad Elfers The Victors - Sol Kaplan Khartoum - Frank Cordell Last Tango in Paris - Gato Barbieri Rock and Roll Movies: The Blackboard Jungle (1955) - Bill Haley Town Without Pity (1961) - Dimitri Tiomkin / Gene Pit-ney A Hard Day’s Night (1964) - The Beatles (song score plus instrumentals arranged by George Martin) Ferry Across the Mersey (1964) - Gerry and the Pace-makers (George Martin arranging and producing) Having a Wild Week-end (1965) - Dave Clark Five Help! (1965) - The Beatles (Ken Thorne contributing score) Privilege (1966) - Paul Jones (of Manfred Mann) What’s Up Tiger Lily? (1966) - The Lovin’ Spoonful Wonderwall (1968) - George Harrison (much Eastern influence, a lot of sitar) You’re a Big Boy Now (1966) - The Lovin’ Spoonful Easy Rider (1969) - Steppenwolf, The Byrds

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Zabriskie Point (1970) - Pink Floyd, Jerry Garcia, The Youngbloods 200 Motels (1971) - Frank Zappa O Lucky Man (1973) - Alan Price Sorcerer (1977) - Tangerine Dream (electronic) I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)) - The Beatles Apocalypse Now (1979) - The Doors, The Rolling Stones, Credence Clearwater Revival The Doors (1991) - The Doors (Oliver Stone biopic) High Fidelity (2000) Across the Universe (2007) Love and Mercy (2015) Jazz Movies: Street Scene (1931) - Alfred Newman A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - Alex North The Wild One (1954) - Leith Stevens The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) - Elmer Bernstein Baby Doll (1956) - Kenyon Hopkins Sweet Smell of Success (1958) - Elmer Bernstein Anatomy of a Murder (1959) - Duke Ellington The Fugitive Kind (1959) - Kenyon Hopkins Walk on the Wild Side (1961) - Elmer Bernstein Paris Blues (1961) - Duke Ellington Les Parapluies De Cherbourg (1963) - Michel Legrand Blow Up (1966) - Herbie Hancock (and the Yardbirds) Les Demoiselles De Rochefort (1967) - Michel Legrand In Cold Blood (1967) - Quincy Jones Jack Johnson (1970) - Miles Davis

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Last Tango In Paris (1972) - Gato Barbieri The Score - Howard Shore He Won’t Get Far On Foot - Danny Elfman Motherless Brooklyn - Daniel Pemberton

Composers By Nationality: French: Georges Auric, Georges Delete, Alexandre Desplat, Maurice Jarre, Francis Lai, Michel Legrand, Eric Serra, Philippe Sarde Lebanese: Gabriel Yared Irish: Patrick Doyle Russian: Dimitri Tiomkin, Dimitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev British: John Addison, Richard Addinsell, Malcolm Ar-nold, David Arnold, William Alwyn, Richard Rodney Bennett, John Barry, Frank Cordell, Benjamin Frankel, Peter Gabriel, Ron Goodwin, John Powell, Rachel Port-man, Clifton Parker, Edward Shearmur, William Walton, Ralph Vaughn Williams Australian: David Hirschfelder, Lisa Gerrard, Mario Millo German/Austrian: Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Waxman, Max Steiner, Hans Zimmer Greek: Mikis Theodorakis, Manos Hadjidakis Polish: Bronislau Kaper

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Italian: Angelo Lavagnino, Ennio Morricone, Mario Nascimbene, Riz Ortolani, Carlo Rusticelli, Nino Rota, Armando Trovajoli Indian: A.R. Rahman Hungarian: Miklos Rozsa Canadian: Mychael Danna Argentinian: Lalo Schifrin

Awards: Oscars: John Barry (7 nominations, 4 wins); Elmer Bernstein (14 nominations, 1 win); Alexandre Desplat (8 nomina-tions, 1 win); Hugo Friedhofer (9 nominations, 1 win); Jerry Goldsmith (18 nominations, 1 win); Bernard Her-mann (5 nominations, 1 win); Maurice Jarre (9 nomina-tions, 3 wins); Erich Wolfgang Korngold (3 nominations, 1 win); Alfred Newman (45 nominations, 9 wins); Thomas Newman (13 nominations, 0 wins); Alex North (16 nominations, 1 Lifetime Achievement Award); Max Steiner (24 nominations, 3 wins); Dimitri Tiomkin (22 nominations, 4 wins); Franz Waxman (12 nominations, 2 wins); John Williams (50 nominations, 5 wins) Golden Globes: John Barry (11 nominations, 1 win); Elmer Bernstein (7 nominations, 2 wins); Alexandre Desplat (8 nomina-tions, 1 wins); Danny Elfman (4 nominations, 0 wins); Jerry Goldsmith (9 nominations, 0 wins); Maurice Jarre (11 nominations, 4 wins); Alex North (2 nominations, 1

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win); Dimitri Tiomkin (9 nominations, 6 wins); Franz Waxman (2 nominations, 1 win); John Williams (25 nominations, 5 wins) More Websites: For old, classic movies (accessing Warner Archives, Fox Archives, etc.): www.oldies.com For information on films: IMDB.com (Internet movie da-tabase)

Great Composer-Studio Tenures of the 1950’s: 20th Century Fox: Bernard Herrmann: Day the Earth Stood Still, Snows of Kilimanjaro, 5 Fingers, White Witch Doctor, Beneath the 12-Mile Reef, King of the Khyber Rifles, Garden of Evil, The Egyptian, Prince of Players, Man in the Grey Flannel Suit, Hatful of Rain, Blue Denim, Journey to the Centre of the Earth) Warner Brothers: Max Steiner: Caged, The Flame and the Arrow, Break-ing Point, Rocky Mountain, Dallas, Operation Pacific, Sugarfoot, Raton Pass, I Was A Communist For the FBI, On Moonlight Bay, Lightning Strikes Twice, Jim Thorpe - All American, Force of Arms, Close To My Heart, Distant Drums, Room For One More, Mara

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Maru, The Lion and the Horse, The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima, Springfield Rifle, The Iron Mistress, The Jazz Singer (1952), By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Trou-ble Along the Way, The Desert Song, The Charge at Feather River, So This Is Love, So Big, The Boy From Oklahoma, The Caine Mutiny, King Richard and the Crusaders, Battle Cry, The McConnell Story, Illegal, Hell On Frisco Bay, Helen of Troy, The Searchers, Death of a Scoundrel, All Mine To Give, Band of An-gels, Darby’s Rangers, Fort Dobbs, Marjorie Morn-ingstar, The Hanging Tree, John Paul Jones, The FBI Story, A Summer Place Dimitri Tiomkin: Strangers on a Train, Bugles in the Afternoon, Angel Face, I Confess, Blowing Wild, The Command, His Majesty O’Keefe, Dial M For Murder, The High and the Mighty, Land of the Pharahos, Giant, The Old Man and the Sea, Rio Bravo MGM: Miklos Rozsa: The Asphalt Jungle, Crisis, Quo Vadis, The Light Touch, Ivanhoe, Plymouth Adventure, The Story of 3 Loves, Julius Caesar, Young Bess, All the Brothers Were Valiant, Knights of the Round Table, Men of the Fighting Lady, Seagulls Over Sorrento, Val-ley of the Kings, Moonfleet, Green Fire, The King’s Thief, Diane, Tribute to a Bad Man, Bhowani Junction, Lust For Life, Something of Value, The Seventh Sin,

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Tip on a Dead Jockey, The World, The Flesh and the Devil, Ben-Hur Easy Listening Instrumental Artists of the 1950’s and 60’s (who frequently recorded film themes): Les Baxter, Percy Faith, Billy Vaughn, Roger Williams, Al Caiola, Don Costa, Arthur Fiedler, Mantovani, 101 Strings, Frank Chacksfield, Ray Conniff, Enoch Light, Living Strings, Johnny Williams, Ferrante and Teicher, Nelson Riddle, Andre Kostelanetz, Peter Nero, Duane Eddy, The Ventures, Richard Hayman, Roland Shaw, The Brass Ring, Herb Alpert. Easy Listening Vocal Artists of the 1950’s and 60’s (who frequently sang film theme songs): Frankie Laine, Judy Garland, Andy Williams, Frank Si-natra, Patti Page, Doris Day, Jack Jones, Robert Gou-let, Shirley Bassey, Johnny Mathis, Matt Monro, Tony Bennett, Barbra Streisand, Nat King Cole. Song Scores (Scores comprised largely of original songs written directly for the screen): Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Royal Wedding, Alice in Wonderland (1951), Cinder-ella, Hans Christian Anderson, Calamity Jane, Seven

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Brides for Seven Brothers, High Society, Silk Stock-ings, Gigi, Mary Poppins, What’s Up Tiger Lily?, Doctor Dolittle, The Happiest Millionaire, You’re a Big Boy Now, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, O Lucky Man, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast (Disney), Newsies, Po-cahontas, Once. Major Composers and a Few Key Scores: John Barry: Goldfinger, Zulu, Dances With Wolves, Born Free, Lion In Winter Elmer Bernstein: Man with the Golden Arm, Ten Com-mandments, Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape Georges Delerue: A Man For All Seasons, Crimes of the Heart, Jules et Jim, Steel Magnolias, King of Hearts Alexandre Desplat: Girl with the Pearl Earring, The Queen, King’s Speech, Grand Budapest Hotel, Zero Dark 30 Danny Elfman: Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands, Corpse Bride, Black Beauty, Girl on the Train Hugo Friedhofer: Best Years of Our Lives, One Eyed Jacks, The Bishop’s Wife, Broken Arrow, The Young Li-ons Michael Giacchino: Up, Inside Out, Tomorrowland, Ju-rassic World, Rogue One, Doctor Strange, Star Trek series Jerry Goldsmith: Patton, The Wind and the Lion, Planet of the Apes, Alien, Chinatown, The Omen, The Blue Max

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Bernard Herrmann: Citizen Kane, 7th Voyage of Sin-bad, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Taxi Driver, Psycho James Horner: Titanic, Avatar, Field of Dreams, Glory, Braveheart, Land Before Time, Rocketeer, Apollo 13 Maurice Jarre: Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, A Passage To India, Ryan’s Daughter, Witness, The Train Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Sea Hawk, Captain Blood, Adventures of Robin Hood, Prince and the Pauper, Juarez Michel Legrand: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Summer of ’42, Three Musketeers (1973), Thomas Crown Affair Henry Mancini: Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Touch of Evil, Charade, Hatari!, The Pink Panther, Days of Wine and Roses Ennio Morricone: Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Mis-sion, The Untouchables, Cinema Paradiso, Hateful 8 Alfred Newman: How the West Was Won, Greatest Story Ever Told, Grapes of Wrath, Street Scene,The Robe Alex North: Spartacus, Streetcar Named Desire, Cleo-patra (1963), Unchained, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Mario Nascimbene: The Vikings, Solomon and Sheba, Room at the Top, Barabbas, Alexander the Great David Raksin: Laura, The Bad and the Beautiful, For-ever Amber, Will Penny, Separate Tables

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Miklos Rozsa: Ben-Hur, El Cid, King of Kings, Spell-bound, Lost Week-end, Jungle Book (1942), Thief of Bagdad Max Steiner: Gone with the Wind, King Kong (1933), The Caine Mutiny, The Searchers, The Flame and the Arrow Dimitri Tiomkin: The Alamo, Guns of Navarone, 55 Days at Peking, Fall of the Roman Empire, High Noon Franz Waxman: Sunset Boulevard, Taras Bulba, Spirit of St. Louis, The Philadelphia Story, Stalag 17 John Williams: Star Wars, Jaws, Close Encounters, Harry Potter films, Indiana Jones films, Schindler’s List