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^ Read * Jerome Moross's The Big Country: A Film Score Guide (Film Score Guides) by Mariana Whitmer ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Jerome Moross's The Big Country: A Film Score Guide (Film Score Guides) She relates the history of this magnificent score and how the film’s music differs significantly from contemporary trends in the Western. With its unique focus on pacifism, The Big Country was an unusual Western for audiences of the 1950s. Inspired to re-think the traditional Western score and approach it in a way that enhances the emotional content, rather than simply accompanying the action, Moross created a work that stands as one of the great achievements of cinematic music.In Jerome M
| Title | : | Jerome Moross's The Big Country: A Film Score Guide (Film Score Guides) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.17 (547 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081088500X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-21 |
| Language | : | English |
since I love the 1958 movie THE BIG COUNTRY and its musical since I love the 1958 movie THE BIG COUNTRY and its musical score by Jerome Moross, I was interested to see there is a book devoted to the music from the movie. The book is part biography of Jerome Moross, part history of the making of the movie, and part analysis of the musical score itself.
Mariana Whitmer teaches film music and manages special programs at the Center for American Music at the University of Pittsburgh.
She relates the history of this magnificent score and how the film’s music differs significantly from contemporary trends in the Western. With its unique focus on pacifism, The Big Country was an unusual Western for audiences of the 1950s. Inspired to re-think the traditional Western score and approach it in a way that enhances the emotional content, rather than simply accompanying the action, Moross created a work that stands as one of the great achievements of cinematic music.In Jerome Moross’s The Big Country: A Film Score Guide, Mariana Whitmer examines Moross’s landmark work, a score that continues to attract listeners and influence composers of film, Westerns and otherwise. Drawing upon Moross’s original manus
Whitmer ably places the film in the context of the history of the development of the western genre, making a strong case for reevaluating The Big Country. (Journal of the Society for American Music)
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