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On the Track offers a comprehensive guide to scoring for film and television. Covering all styles and genres, the authors, both noted film composers, cover everything from the nuts-and-bolts of timing, cuing, and recording through balancing the composer's aesthetic vision with the needs of the film itself. Unlike other books that are aimed at the person "dreaming" of a career, this is truly a guide that can be used by everyone from students to technically sophisticated professionals. Plus, it contains over 77 interviews with noted composers, illustrating the many technical points made through the text.
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MUST BUY IT :).......2007-07-03
This book is a MUST for everybody who is involved in the film industry (composers, producers, directors, film and music editors, etc...) and wants to know the insides of composing film scores:
It has many examples, references, quotes and the expertise of such a great composer as Karlin is.
Wanna be serious in this business, must get it.
It's worth buying it.
The Veda of Film Scoring .......2007-05-30
Fred Karlin and his orchestration teacher Rayburn Wright both passed away but their spirit comes alive through the pages of this book. Fred's love for film music and to impart fledgling composers to imbibe the intricacies of film music composition is well documented and presented and is current with examples of cues from movies till 2002 in the 2nd edition of the book. Fred's reverence for film composers is both inspirational and exhaustive and reveals what a brilliant human being he was. This world and the music community needs people like this who have taken their chosen art form and has the good heart to share that information which is hard earned to let other men take lead and become CAUSE over their own vistas of expression in film music. Fred is BRILLIANT AND ALIVE. It is inevitable that you can't help but think of him with gratitude and call out to him and say THANK YOU. These are the people who can bring about changes in the field of film music education and the evolution of man in general by helping us create better art. This is the Veda of Film Scoring. Its that good.
Excellent book!.......2007-05-16
This book is perfect for people who is interested in filmscoring, discussing every aspect of filmcomposing that you need to know about. It`s the best I`ve read so far.
Excellent.......2007-01-04
This is a great book to add to your collection and to improve your technique and knowledge of film scoring. it's worth the price!
Great, easy to understand book........2007-01-03
This book was great for the beginner. It breaks down scoring into easy to understand sections. Great examples are used from prominent composers. Definitely a must have for anyone who is just getting serious about composing for picture.
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A companion to the author's 1971 entrée to book publishing, Feel Like Going Home, Lost Highway reveals Peter Guralnick's growth as a chronicler of American roots music. Originally published eight years after Going Home, Lost Highway tills the same rich soil--the likes of Sun Records chief Sam Phillips, bluesman Howlin' Wolf, and dispirited countrypolitan star Charlie Rich resurface. But here Guralnick also explores the psyches and works of kindred spirits both celebrated (Elvis Presley and Merle Haggard) and obscure (rockabilly journeyman Sleepy LaBeef and the "world's oldest teenager," Rufus Thomas). Guralnick reveals a unifying hook: for each musician, touring has become "journey, arrival, process, definition, virtually replacing in almost every instance the very impetus that set them out on the road in the first place." The author has a knack for finding the insecurities entangled with the talents of his peripatetic idols--perhaps they feel more comfortable opening up to him, sensing he only seeks to understand how their anxiety affects their art. Regardless, you can't read Lost Highway without gaining a greater appreciation of the music that prompted its writing. --Steven Stolder
Book Description
A companion to the author's 1971 entr+e to book publishing, Feel Like Going Home, Lost Highway reveals Peter Guralnick's growth as a chronicler of American roots music. Originally published eight years after Going Home, Lost Highway tills the same rich soil--the likes of Sun Records chief Sam Phillips, bluesman Howlin' Wolf, and dispirited countrypolitan star Charlie Rich resurface. But here Guralnick also explores the psyches and works of kindred spirits both celebrated (Elvis Presley and Merle Haggard) and obscure (rockabilly journeyman Sleepy LaBeef and the "world's oldest teenager," Rufus Thomas). Guralnick reveals a unifying hook: for each musician, touring has become "journey, arrival, process, definition, virtually replacing in almost every instance the very impetus that set them out on the road in the first place." The author has a knack for finding the insecurities entangled with the talents of his peripatetic idols--perhaps they feel more comfortable opening up to him, sensing he only seeks to understand how their anxiety affects their art. Regardless, you can't read Lost Highway without gaining a greater appreciation of the music that prompted its writing. --Steven Stolder
Customer Reviews:
Beautiful Portraits.......2006-07-04
In his writing, Peter Guralnick has placed his own work in the mythology of American (roots) music. The portraits that make up this book are all written more than 10 years after the heyday of the people he is writing about. It's about people who are no longer the stars they were, though their legacy remains.
It's not a history book about roots music, for that you need to read others. It does give great portraits of the people involved, showing their feebles but still maintaining their mythological role in music.
Rebel music that gets an overly respectful treatment rendering it stale and moribund.......2006-03-05
Guralnick's first book, Feel Like Going Home, was a classic examination of the nature of American roots music. In it, he authentically captured the dirt, crudity and blue-collar abrasiveness that characterised the music that would eventally give birth to Rock 'n' Roll. However in Lost Highway, he fails to convey that renegade spirit and instead reduces the music and its participants to the level of the mudane. His problem is that he's too reverential in his approach and throughout the book the overriding impression is that this is "worthy" music that you're meant to respect though not necessarily enjoy. Lost Highway really feels like little more than a description of the current state of the bar band scene of the late-'70's when it should in fact have been a celebration of a series of iconoclastic individuals and the culture that spawned them.
To it's credit though, there is one glittering, transcendent moment. In the same way that the James Brown essay was the one shining beacon in Sweet Soul Music, the highlight here is the chapter on Elvis Presley, written just before his death and eerily prophetic. It's clear that Guralnick adores Presley and his enthusiasm propels the narrative, overcoming his respectfulness to generate an exquisite essay. It's a shame that he couldn't have let his true instincts dominate his writing more often.
Lost Highway often reminds me of those workplaces with a sign that says "you don't have to be crazy to work here but it helps" and yet absolutely no-one there is crazy in the slightest. Guralnick tries too hard to convince us of the purported craziness of many of the individuals, such as Jack Clement who simply comes across as a tedious loudmouth and nothing like this man-from-outer-space that Guralnick would like you to believe.
Ultimately, this book fails and a large part of the reason for that failure is for the same reasons that Rock n Roll / Pop etc has lost it's edge - namely that it's been around too long. Any art form that has existed for any reasonable period of time ceases to be a threat to established norms and simply ends up being as cosy and unthreatening as the very culture that it originally set out to replace. Lost Highway simply enhances the music's status as a static entity that exists solely in a waxified museum format.
Solid Overview Of Roots Music.......2004-05-10
From the Grand Ole Opry aristocracy to the smoky dives of Chicago, Peter Guralnick is our guide through this 1979 examination of what diverse streams have fed American popular music. In parts a celebration, in parts a eulogy, it makes for some fascinating reading.
Those who read and liked Guralnick's earlier, shorter "Feel Like Going Home" will enjoy this second trip to the well. There's calls paid on Rufus Thomas, "the world's oldest teenager" whose blues-centered dances led to some early-'60s chart success; on DeFord Bailey, a harmonica whiz who was the Opry's first major star until folks figured out he was black; Hank Williams Jr., who lives up to his Daddy's tall legacy with the help of artificial stimulants and his own sense of the blues; and Charlie Rich, who was last visited in "Feel Like Going Home" as something of a straggler but grew into one of the biggest country singers of the 1970s, not that we find him here feeling too happy about it.
The best writing in this collection comprises several chapters on Elvis Presley, who was still just barely alive when Guralnick wrote his first essay here in 1976 and just dead when he wrote his next right after. Elvis was the one guy Guralnick didn't talk to, but you feel his presence in interviews with his old guitarist Scotty Moore and former mentor Sam Phillips.
"He hit like a Pan-American flash, and the reverberations still linger from the shock of his arrival," Guralnick writes.
There's a lot of characters, and some seem more interesting for their uniqueness (Jack Clement, Charlie Feathers) while others seem like misses altogether (who was James Talley anyway, and why should we care?) But there's some arresting profiles of those who made it and those who didn't, plus a sense of what got them there.
"It has to be the only thing for you - the one thing in your life," says cowboy legend Ernest Tubb. Guralnick makes it all seem worth it, for a few hundred pages at least.
This aint no MTV.......2000-09-08
In Lost Highway, Peter Guralnick shows us some of the most unique, and largely unrecognized, figures in American music. His chapters on Charlie Feathers, who was there with Elvis, Carl, and Johnny in Sun Studios in the 50's, and Sleepy LaBeef, whose relentless touring machine, upon request, would serve up any hit ever recorded by anybody, are compassionate portraits of real people that never got the hits, the recognition, or the payday of their famous contemporaries. What you come away with after reading this book is a realization that Guralnick's subjects live and breathe 'the life'. It's what they do. As I read this book, I found myself wondering if Guralnick had selected his subjects to cover some broad spectrum of the American musical landscape, or if he just wanted to get face to face with his musical heroes, and writing a book about them was a cool way to make that happen. Whatever the reason, Guralnick's enthusiasm for American music and his abiding respect for its practitioners come through every page. His attention to the small things, whether flattering to his subjects or not, brings us in close, where frustrations, hopes, missed opportunities, and dreams are all there for us to see. This isn't MTV. It's not the Grammy's. It's blue collar, working stiff people, making their living playing the music they love. And because they are so much like us, their stories are wonderfully compelling.
An achingly beautiful book about life as a musician........1999-01-19
Peter Guralnick makes you realize how much it takes to be a musician. His portraits of the lives of country, blues, and rock musicians are so beautiful and yet so tragic. You finish the chapter on Bobby Bland filled with admiration for his conviction, yet saddened that what defines him as a human being can become such a grind. And you finish the chapters on artists you didn't know or care about--Ernest Tubb, Hank Snow, Charlie Rich--filled with admiration, realizing that they loved and commited themselves to something that was as dear to them as it was to their fans, even when, as with Charlie Rich, it fell beneath their expectations. An almost indescribably beautiful book.
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In 1990 the fledgling Fox television network debuted its prime-time soap opera Beverly Hills, 90210, which was intended to appeal to viewers in their late teens and early twenties. Before long, not only did the network have a genuine hit with a lar
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Good anthropological study.......2006-02-28
This book is not a 90210 guide. It is a great anthropological study of the show phenomenon and it's impact on the female audience. It also investigates the typical issues that young women are concerned with, using the show as the vehicle for honest and unguarded conversation. It brings forward interesting points that every young feminist should be aware of. A great read for a 1990's woman who enjoyed the show and is interested in gender studies.
Not what I thought it would be.......2003-06-10
I am an avid fan of "Beverly Hills 90210," and I thought that this book would be a perfect combination of intellectuality and my love of pop culture. I was sadly mistaken.
This book nearly put me to sleep. Although I thought it was interesting to read scenes that I had viewed myself and read other people's reactions to them, I was quite bored by all of the technical reading in it. I figured it would be more analysis and study rather than just a presentation of the facts. I would definitely NOT recommend this as something that anyone should buy.
HOW COULD A SHOW HOLD SO WELL FOR TEN YEARS.......2000-05-24
THE BOOK EXPLAINS WELL ALL THE ISSUES AND CHARACTER BUILDING DURING YEARS OF THE SHOW. SOME OF THE CHAPTERS ARE HARD TO FINISH BECAUSE THEY GO IN DEEP THOUGHTS ABOUT WOMEN, AND IDENTITY MAKING IT SOUD LIKE A TEXT BOOK, BUT AFTER I FINISH THOSE CHAPTERS I RELAIZED HOW IMPORTANT THEY WERE IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE SUCESS OF THE SHOW, THE TECNIQUE OF THE WRITERS AND PRODUCERS OF THE SHOW. AS A SHOW BUSINESS LOVER AND WORKER I RECOMEND THE BOOK TO EVERY WOMAN AND TV PROFESSIONAL.
Customer Reviews:
Not the comprehensive guide it thinks it is . . . ........2002-12-09
The Beverly Hills, 90210 Guide claims to be 'the ultimate authority that no 90210 fan should be without'. I disagree. I think it's a fairly useful companion to the first three seasons of 90210 but there's no way it's 'the ultimate authority'.
I bought this book for two reasons; I'm a huge fan of the show and I was slightly swayed by the enthusiastic summations of fellow Amazon reviewers. I finished the book within a couple of hours (literally) and am not overly impressed. The signs were ominous when the author began by (stupidly?) confessing that despite finding 90210 one of the most addictive shows, it isn't a favourite. Perhaps if this unauthorised guide had been written by a die-hard fan, the resulting effort would've been infinitely more satisfying.
Even if I'm generous and leave aside the grammatical errors that abound (for example ' and this is a DIRECT quote from the book: 'nothing scared her more than the fact that she [Kelly Taylor] and David [Silver] would be sisters'. SISTERS!!! Errrr, HELLO?), I'm not overwhelmed with the content either.
I thought the character biographies on the slender side until I got a load of the episode summaries; at best they omit telling detail and at worst, they're positively skimpy.
In addition, although the author provides a summary of each episode and the original airdate, said episodes are listed numerically but *not* titled (for example,
'#1 10/4/90 --------- #2 10/11/90' etc).
What self-respecting TV guide omits episode titles? Surely the raison d'être of such a publication is to feed the hunger of obsessed fans with seemingly endless trivia and information about the show? Episode titles are a must! They're a prerequisite! And don't bother looking in the book's foreward or introduction for an explanation of this gross oversight - there isn't one.
I know that the first episode is the pilot, 'Class of Beverly Hills' and that the second episode is titled, 'The Green Room', but what if I didn't know and I'd already spent $7.95 (plus shipping) on this book? Even the most basic 90210 fan website considers episode titles important enough to list but not, it would appear, The Beverly Hills 90210 Guide.
Ah, the irony. Incredulous? You're darn tootin' I am.
And if you think that's bad, get this. Poor research and/or oversights and slight inaccuracies are unforgivable in non-fiction and yet, they're evident here. For example, of Brandon Walsh's third season summer fling with Brooke Alexander the author says, and I quote directly, "They [Steve Sanders and Brooke] also became romantically involved. Unfortunately, when she met Brandon their romance came to an end and she started dating Brandon". That is sooooo untrue! Steve had an unrequited crush on Brooke and for that reason, they *never* became romantically involved.
Tsk, tsk, tsk author - do your homework!
On the positive side ... um ... um ... it's a relatively inexpensive purchase, it does contain a couple of interesting perspectives on the show (literally) and the trivia quiz in Chapter 14 is fun to do. However, be warned; it too contains mistakes.
Recommended (just) for the truly obsessed 90210 fan. Hopefully someone else out there will write a vastly superior guide to all 10 seasons.
Good Book For Fans.......2001-10-09
If you are a true 90210 fan like I, you will appreciate this book because it brings back great memories and it is a good thing to have to look back on. Although it describes the earlier times it is still very good and describes each season so well you can see it. If you are a fan i think you should buy it.
Classic.......2000-07-15
Unlike it's later years, the early years of this drama were well written and intriguing. Although the characters had family problems beneath a life of privllege or (in the Walsh case) were symbolic of the viewing audience who were the all knowing outsiders selectively accepting and discarding portions of "the" life, it was a fabulous show.
Ten years later after it's inital debut, 90210 went off the airwaves. This book brought back wonderful memories of "the high school years" by far and away the best segment of the series. Anybody who wanted to see why gen-xers liked the show needs to check this out.
THE ABSOLUTE BEST!.......2000-04-18
I love Beverly Hills 90210 and this guide is the absolute best... I recommend buying it.
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Gals & Guys from Beverly Hills 90210
Sara James
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Jason Priestley, Luke Perry, Shannen Doherty, Brian Austin Green and more. packed with photos and filled with facts.
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What's behind the sky-rocketing success of TV's smash-hit drama Beverly Hills, 90210? It's the compelling real-life topics, the true-to-life character portrayals of its dynamic cast and, of course, the unwavering support of viewers -like you- who are hungry for a program that tells it like it is! Now, you can get behind-the-scenes and up-close-and-personal with your favorite TV show and its stars in this photo-filled, sizzling scrapbook about Beverly Hills, 90210.
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Beverly Hill 90210: Unauthorized Biography
Michael Teitelbaum
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Beverly Hills, 90210 (TV's Hottest Teens)
Rosemary Wallner
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Customer Reviews:
This book needs you wanting to know more........2000-06-15
This book about the cast of 90210 is a little disappointing because it is only 35 pages long. It has very few pictures of the cast, and only a couple of pages about each of them. One of the worst things about this book was that the pictures of Brian Austin Green and Jason Priestley are reversed. If you like 90210, this may be a book want to own to add to your collection. However, if you want more information about them and lots of pictures, I wouldn't recommend that you buy this book.
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