FILM MUSIC NOTES: Volume 8
(September-October 1948 to May-June 1949)
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 1948 – VOLUME 8, NUMBER 1
Cover: Lousiana Story (small picture); Contents
- Film Music Notes
- Film Music News
- Lousiana Story* {Virgil Thomson} -- A Review of Virgil Thomson's Score (Frederick W. Sternfeld)
- National Film Music Council Conference
- Music Educator's Needs in Films (Delinda Roggensack)
- Grand Opera on the Screen (Sigmund Spaeth)
- A Public Library Film Service (Mary Louise Alexander)
- Dreams That Money Can Buy (Louis Applebaum)
- WQXR (NY) Programs of Movie Music
- Current Films: The Loves of Carmen (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco); Corridor of Mirrors (George Auric); Day of Wrath (Paul Schierbeck). (Reviews by Ramon Mendes, William Hamilton & Harold Brown)
- The Lighter Films: One Touch of Venus (Kurt Weill, Ann Ronell (uncredited)); For the Love of Mary (Frank Skinner); Isn't It Romantic (Joseph J. Lilley, mus. dir.); Rachel and the Stranger (Roy Webb); Two Guys from Texas (Friedrich Hollaender, Howard Jackson & Carl Stalling); A Date With Judy (Albert Sendry & George Stoll); Luxury Liner (Adolph Deutsch); Easter Parade (Johnny Green, mus. dir.).
FILM MUSIC NOTES – NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1948 – VOLUME 8, NUMBER 2
Cover: Scene from The Red Shoes; Contents
- Film Music News
- Composing for a Film Score (with musical examples from Last of the Badmen* {Roy Webb}
- Radio Programs of Movie Music, WQXR (New York)
- Macbeth ({Jacques Ibert}), notes by its composer
- Macbeth*, review of the film (William Hamilton)
- Current Films: The Red Shoes (Brian Easdale); Unfaithfully Yours (Alfred Newman); When My Baby Smiles at Me (Alfred Newman, mus. dir.); A Song is Born (Hugo Friedhofer & Emil Newman, mus. dirs.); The Kissing Bandit (George Stoll, mus. dir.); The Paleface (Victor Young); One Night With You (Muir Mathieson, mus. dir.). (Reviews by Ramon Mendez & William Hamilton)
- Spaeth on Popular Music
- 16mm Films
- Documentary Films (Louis Applebaum)
- Index from September 1946 to September 1947
FILM MUSIC NOTES – JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1949 – VOLUME 8, NUMBER 3
Cover: Ingrid Bergman in scene from Joan of Arc
- Film Music News
- Notes on Force of Evil {(David Raksin)}
- Review of Force of Evil, with excerpts of score* (Lawrence Morton)
- Notes on Whispering Smith {Adolph Deutsch} (William Hamilton)
- Notes on Whispering Smith, with excerpts of score* {Adolph Deutsch}
- Music in Current British Films (John Huntley)
- Film Tune Sleuths (Fred Stanley)
- Composer Problems (John del Valle)
- Current Films: Joan of Arc (Hugo Friedhofer); Johnny Belinda (Max Steiner); The Snake Pit (Alfred Newman). (Reviews by Gail Kubik, Gene Forrell & William Hamilton)
- The Lighter Films: Words and Music (Rogers & Hart); The Sun Comes Up (André Previn); Chicken Every Sunday (Alfred Newman); The Boy With Green Hair (Leigh Harline); So Dear To My Heart (Paul J. Smith).
- 16mm Films (Marie Hamilton)
- Morris County Library Service
FILM MUSIC NOTES – MARCH-APRIL 1949 – VOLUME 8, NUMBER 4
Cover: Recording session from William Walton's score to Olivier's Hamlet
- Contents
- Film Music News
- The Music of Hamlet ({William Walton})
- British Films on the Air
- Introductory Programme Film Music Series (Muir Mathieson)
- The Red Shoes (with script of ballet) {Brian Easdale}
- The Red Shoes (Gail Kubik)
- Music in Television and Its Problems (Roger Bowman)
- Radio Programs of Movie Music, WQXR (New York)
- Information on Film Music in the United States
- 1949 Academy Awards (Constance Purdy)
- Film Music and the Music Library (Gladys E. Chamberlain)
- Current Films: Easy Money (Temple Abady); Sin of Esther Waters (Gordon Jacob); The Barkleys of Broadway (Lennie Hayton); A Kiss in the Dark (Max Steiner); A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. (Victor Young)
- Afterthoughts (Sigmund Spaeth)
FILM MUSIC NOTES – MAY-JUNE 1949 – VOLUME 8, NUMBER 5
Cover: Scene from The Milky Waif, cartoon starring Tom and Jerry
- Contents
- Notes on Cartoon Music with excerpts of scores* {Scott Bradley} (Ingolf Dahl) [This is a very long article.]
- Stay East, Young Man! Stay East! (Jack Shaindlin)
- Current Films: Quartet (John Greenwood); Letter to Three Wives (Alfred Newman); Champion (Dimitri Tiomkin); Home of the Brave (Dimitri Tiomkin). (Reviews by Gene Forrell & William Hamilton)
- Films in Music Education.
- Music for Films in Television (Roger Bowman)
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