On the Track: A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring, Second Edition

Routledge, 2004, Paperback

Product Description

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.

Product Details

Title: On the Track: A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring, Second Edition
Sales Rank: 339677 in Books
Author: Fred Karlin
Publisher: Routledge, 2 edition, 2004-01-08, Paperback, 560 pages, ISBN: 0415941369
Package Dimensions: 11 x 8.4 x 1.3 inches, 3.45 pounds

Customer Reviews

The Greatest and Most Complete Book I Ever Seen. Don't care about its price: This is the greatest book I ever seen. It' a complete guide for film and tv scorig. It analyses every aspects and tasks of the film music production for a composer. From the spotting to the business... It explains very clearly the concepts, also with a lot of quotations from today's most famous film composers, editors, executives, producers, directors... (more than… More reviews

MUST BUY IT :): 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. More reviews

The Veda of Film Scoring: 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… More reviews

Excellent book!: 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. More reviews

Excellent: 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!… More reviews