FILM MUSIC (NOTES): Sept./Oct. 1949 to May-June 1952

LEGEND: Asterisk (*) means article includes musical examples. Info in (parentheses) is the author of the article. Info in {curly brackets} is the composer connected with that article. If the composer and author are the same, there is a double bracket ({like this}). Info in [square brackets] is additional information about the article. Comments? Corrections? Questions? E-mail me via this link.

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FILM MUSIC NOTES – SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1949 – VOLUME 9, NUMBER 1

Cover: Lost Boundaries (music by Louis Applebaum)

• Film Music News
• Some Comments on the Score for Lost Boundaries ({Louis Applebaum})
• Louis Applebaum's Score for Lost Boundaries* (Lan Adomian)
• Film Music Profile: David Raksin (Lawrence Morton)
• Teaching Film Music (Gene Forrell)
• Jolson Sings Again: – Composer's Notes ({George Duning})
• Songs in Jolson Sings Again
• Current Reviews: That Midnight Kiss; She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (William Hamilton)
• Lighter Films: Look for the Silver Lining; It's A Great Feeling; In the Good Old Summer Time; Top o' the Morning (Marie Hamilton)

FILM MUSIC NOTES – NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1949 – VOLUME 9, NUMBER 2

Cover: William Walton, John Hollingsworth and Laurence Olivier at Hamlet recording session

• Film Music News
• Film Music Profile: Adolph Deutsch (Lawrence Morton)
• New Regulations Proposed for Music in TV Films (Roger Bowman)
• Excerpts from the Score to Hamlet* [Quality is mediocre] {William Walton}
• Christopher Columbus ({Arthur Bliss})
• Christopher Columbus Review (Harold Brown)
• The Heiress: A Review of Aaron Copland's Music Score (Irwin A. Bazelon)
• Lighter Films: On the Town; Everybody Does It; Dancing in the Dark; Holiday Inn; The Inspector General; Intruder in the Dust (Heywood Hale Brown; Gail Kubik)
• Good Utilization of Educational Films (Delinda Roggensack)
• Films in Public Libraries (Mary Louise Alexander)
• 16mm Films (Marie L. Hamilton)
• Afterthoughts (Sigmund Spaeth)†

† Not in this issue's index

FILM MUSIC NOTES – JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1950 – VOLUME 9, NUMBER 3

Cover: The Third Man (music by Anton Karas, photo of Orson Welles)

• Film Music News
• The Third Man Music* {Anton Karas} (William Hamilton)
• Prince of Foxes: Some Comments on Alfred Newman's Score* {Alfred Newman} (Lawrence Morton)
• Film Music Profile: Franz Waxman (Lawrence Morton)
• The Music Mixer (John Huntley)
• The Titan: Story of Michelangelo {Alois Melichar} (Ann Ronell)
• A Time for Bach (Gene Forrell)
• Reissues: As You Like It; Intermezzo
• Lighter Films: Cinderella; The Great Rupert; Nancy Goes to Rio (Marie L. Hamilton)
• WQXR (NY) Programs of Movie Music for February
• Audio-Visual Aids and Music Education (Lila Belle Pitts)
• 16mm Films
• The Advisory Council

FILM MUSIC NOTES – MARCH-APRIL 1950 – VOLUME 9, NUMBER 4

Cover: Love Happy (music by Ann Ronell, artwork of Marx Brothers)

• Film Music News
• The Score of the Month: Love Happy – Composer's Notes ({Ann Ronell})
• An Article on Love Happy: 1. Comments on Ann Ronell's Score* (Harry Geller); 2. On Precision Timing (Paul Smith)
• Film Music Profile: Leigh Harline (Lawrence Morton)
• No Sad Songs for Me* ({George Duning})
• The Man on the Eiffel Tower* ({Michel Michelet})
• The Dance in Films (D.D. Livingston)
• Uses of Film in Music Education (Delinda Roggensack)

FILM MUSIC NOTES – MAY-JUNE 1950 – VOLUME 9, NUMBER 5

Cover: Annie Get Your Gun (music by Irving Berlin, photo [??], Adolph Deutsch, music director)

• Film Music News; Citations
• The Next Voice You Hear* ({David Raksin}) [With review by "M.H." (Marie Hamilton?)]
• Faust and the Devil (Arthur Christmann)
• Annie Get Your Gun {Irving Berlin; Adolph Deutsch, mus. dir.}
• Notes on Music: In a Lonely Place* ({George Antheil})
• Daybreak in Udi (Harold Brown)
• Film Music Profile: Alfred Newman (Lawrence Morton)†
• Public Libraries as Musical Centers (William Harrison)
• First Annual Film Festival (Mary Louise Alexander)†
• Children's Concert (Rose Marie Grentzer)
• Library Service

† Not in this issue's index

FILM MUSIC NOTES – SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1950 – VOLUME 10, NUMBER 1

Cover: Edge of Doom (music by Hugo Friedhofer, photo of Farley Granger, Dana Andrews and ??)

• Film Music News
• Film Music Profile: Hugo Friedhofer (Lawrence Morton)
• Edge of Doom* {Hugo Friedhofer} (William Hamilton)
• The Music of Treasure Island {Clifton Parker} (John Huntley)
• Glass Menagerie* {Max Steiner} (R.F. Deke)
• Lighter Films: Three Little Words; Tea for Two; My Blue Heaven; The Toast of New Orleans; Summer Stock
• Afterthoughts (Sigmund Spaeth)
• Library Service in Gary, Indiana (Stillman K. Taylor)
• 16mm Films (Marie L. Hamilton)
• Index of Film Music Notes, September 1949 to June 1950
• Advisory Council

FILM MUSIC NOTES – NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1950 – VOLUME 10, NUMBER 2

Cover: Gerald McBoing-Boing (music by Gail Kubik)

• Film Music News
• An interview with George Antheil (Lawrence Morton)
• Kubik's [Gerald] McBoing [Boing] Score with Excerpts of Score* (Frederick W. Sternfeld)
• Film Music and Its Use in Beaver Valley {Paul Smith} (James Algar)
• Film Music of Recent Pictures (Edward Kilenyi)
• Prelude to Fame (Quaintance Eaton)
• Paris Waltz {Offenbach} (R.F. Deke)
• 16mm Films (Marie Hamilton)
• Library Service

FILM MUSIC NOTES – JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1951 – VOLUME 10, NUMBER 3

Cover: Of Men and Music (photo of conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos)

• Film Music News
• Film Music Profile: André Previn (Lawrence Morton)
• Kim {André Previn} (Milton M. Kraus)
• Of Men and Music (Quaintance Eaton)
• The Music in The Mudlark {William Alwyn} (John Huntley)
• A Few Ideas about Music and Films [Works of Calder*] ({John Cage})
• Film Music Available on Disc (Anthony [!!] Thomas)
• Notes on Music for Television (Roger Bowman)
• Films in Public Libraries (Mary L. Alexander)
• Library Service
• Afterthoughts (Sigmund Spaeth)

FILM MUSIC NOTES – MARCH-APRIL 1951 – VOLUME 10, NUMBER 4

Cover: Tales of Hoffman (photo of Robert Rounesville)

• Film Music News
• Film Music Profile: Miklós Rózsa (Lawrence Morton)
• Message from Franz Waxman
• Tales of Hoffman {Offenbach} (R.F. Deke)
• Teresa {Louis Applebaum} (David Epstein)
• Lullaby of Broadway [Ray Heindorf, mus. dir.] (Milton Kraus)
• The Brave Bulls {Mario Tedesco} (Robert Abramson)
• Talking Back: A Hollywood Composer States Case for His Craft (David Raksin)
• The Scope of Film Music Education (Delinda Roggensack)
• Evaluation of Sound Films for Music Education (University of Nebraska)
• Syllabus of a Course of Nine Lectures on Music and the Cinema [University of London] (John Huntley)
• Kansas City Public Library

FILM MUSIC NOTES – MAY-JUNE 1951 – VOLUME 10, NUMBER 5

Cover: The Great Caruso (photo of Mario Lanza and others)

• Film Music News
• The Great Caruso (Alfred E. Simon)
• Music Information: The Great Caruso
• The Emperor's Nightingale* {Vaclav Trojan} (Arthur Hepner; R.F. Deke)
• Show Boat {Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II} [Adolph Deutsch, mus. dir.] (Richard Lewine)
• The Brave Bulls {Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco} (Miriam Teichner)
• The Telekinema in London (John Huntley)
• Film Music on the Western Campus (UCLA) (Helen C. Dill)
• New Radio and Television Prices and Conditions (Roger Bowman)
• 16mm Films (Marie L. Hamilton)
• Film Music (Lilla Belle Pitts)
• Reports of Music Educators Conferences
• Afterthoughts (Sigmund Spaeth)

FILM MUSIC – SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1951 – VOLUME 11, NUMBER 1

Cover: The Whistle at Eaton Falls (music by Louis Applebaum, photo of Ernest Borgnine, Lloyd Bridges and ??)

• Film Music News
• Film Music: Art or Industry (Lawrence Morton)
• Notes on the Music for The Whistle at Eaton Falls* ({Louis Applebaum})
• Strictly Dishonorable [Lennie Hayton, mus. dir.] (Alfred E. Simon)
• The Medium* {Gian-Carlo Menotti} (R.F. Deke)
• Nature's Half Acre* {Paul Smith} (Wanda Sykes)
• Oliver Twist {Arnold Bax} (John Huntley)
• Index of Film Music Notes, September 1950 to June 1951

FILM MUSIC – NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1951 – VOLUME 11, NUMBER 2

Cover: Quo Vadis (music by Miklós Rózsa, photo of Robert Taylor, Leo Genn and Peter Ustinov)

• Film Music News
• Music in Quo Vadis* ({Miklós Rózsa})
• Rózsa's Music for Quo Vadis (Lawrence Morton)
• An American in Paris {Gershwin} (Richard Lewine)
• Music in the Round [Norman McLaren] ({Louis Applebaum})
• A Place in the Sun {Franz Waxman} (Robert M. Abramson)
• Eroica – The Beethoven Story (Quaintance Eaton)
• Current Releases: A Christmas Carol; The Blue Veil; Two Tickets to Broadway; Golden Girl; Slaughter Trail
• Documentary Film Music (Muir Mathieson)-
• 16mm Films (Marie L. Hamilton)
• Afterthoughts (Sigmund Spaeth)

FILM MUSIC – JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1952 – VOLUME 11, NUMBER 3

Cover: The River

• Film Music News
• The River* {M. A. Partha Sarathy} (Alva Coil Denison and Ann Ronell)
• St. Matthew Passion {Johann Sebastian Bach} (William Hamilton)
• The Man With a Cloak {David Raksin} (C.W.)
• The Light Touch {Miklós Rózsa} (C.W.)
• A Streetcar Named Desire {Alex North} (Frank Lewin)
• [Included in above review] Excerpts from A Streetcar Named Desire* {Alex North}
• Movie Music Goes on Record (Arthur Knight)
• Rochester Public Library
• Television Survey (Roger Bowman)

FILM MUSIC – MARCH-APRIL 1952 – VOLUME 11, NUMBER 4

Cover: Viva Zapata (music by Alex North, photo of Marlon Brando)

• Film Music News
• Viva Zapata!* {Alex North} (Lan Adomian)
• Singin' in the Rain [Lennie Hayton, mus. dir.] (Richard Lewine)
• The Belle of New York [Adolph Deutsch, mus. dir.] (Alfred Simon)
• With A Song in My Heart [Alfred Newman, mus. dir.] (Alfred Simon)
• Record Review: With A Song in My Heart (Arthur Knight)
• The Music of The African Queen* ({Allan Gray})
• The African Queen: The Composer and the Film (John Huntley)
• Teaching Film Music (Elwyn Schwartz)
• Afterthoughts (Sigmund Spaeth)

FILM MUSIC – MAY-JUNE 1952 – VOLUME 11, NUMBER 5

Cover: Painting: "Man With a Guitar"

• Film Music News
• Pictura {Roman Vlad, Lan Andomian, etc.} (Frank Lewin)
• Cry The Beloved Country {R. Gallois Montbrun} (Robert G. McBride)
• High Treason {John Addison} (Quaintance Eaton)
• Murder in the Cathedral {Laszlo Lajtha} (Frank Lewin)
• The Two Mousketeers* {Scott Bradley} (Albert Mellor)
• Can Film Composing Be Taught* {Robert Erich Wolf} (Boris A. Kremenliev)
• Record Review: Singin' in the Rain (Arthur Knight)
• Music in the Films: Canada [Frank Herbert, Robert Fleming, Eldon Rathburn, Maurice Blackburn, William McCauley, Louis Applebaum] (Gerald Pratley)
• Third Annual Film Festival [Stanford, Connecticut] (William Harrison III)
• Index: September 1946 to May-June 1952

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