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The three revolutions of film music

Cinema. The seventh art. Also the youngest. It stands to reason that an artistic form with so many aspects and facets, many of them relying on an...
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Submarine movies: the manliest of film scores?

Film music comes in a variety as wide and colorful as the movies they enliven. Further, each emotion typically conveyed musically in film can be...
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The film music fan: between a rock and a hard place

As covered in thisearlierarticle, film music fans number in the mere thousands worldwide. Most of them yearn for this music to be regarded as the...
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Howard Shore: Beyond Lord of the Rings

For the past ten years Canadian composer Howard Shore has been a fan favorite for his incredible work on Peter Jackson’s epic Lord of the...
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James Horner: composer or emotionalist?

Few composers have raised the kind of controversy that Dr. Horner has in his long string of hits and lesser-known efforts. Words such as &ldquo...
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Extended weekend highlights, Feb. 16 - 20

Abendmusik Featuring Jacqueline Horner KwiatekThursday, Feb. 16, at 7:00 pmHoly Trinity Lutheran Church3 West 65th St.New York, NY 10023Amber-hued...
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The guilty pleasure in film music

This article talked about the rewards of patience, discipline and dedication in the appreciation of film music. But not every score is an amazing...
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Soundtrack Review: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine

The grim, dark future of the Warhammer 40,000 universe deeply embedded in fans of the Games Workshop intellectual property has consistently proven...
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The agony and the ecstasy of learning a new film score

“This score is a piece of filth, I can’t believe I bothered to buy/order/download/steal this!” We’ve all said it. Most...
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Capillary Action craft a brilliant orchestral frenzy with "Capsized."

Capsized, the second album by Capillary Action, is dense. Very dense. Its music (which may categorize as a new genre—progressive big band)...
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