FILM MUSIC NOTES: Sept./Oct. 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.
Issues in this section (which is all the issues -- five -- for this particular volume) have been obtained with the kind help of The Film Music Society.
FILM MUSIC NOTES – SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1948 – VOLUME 8, NUMBER 1
Cover: Lousiana Story (music by Virgil Thomson, small picture, contents listing)
- 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 L. Stalling (all uncredited)}; A Date With Judy {Albert Sendry, George Stoll, both uncredited)}; Luxury Liner {Adolph Deutsch}; Easter Parade {Conrad Salinger, uncredited}.
FILM MUSIC NOTES – NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1948 – VOLUME 8, NUMBER 2
Cover: The Red Shoes (music by Brian Easdale, picture of a scene from the film, contents listing)
- 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 (both uncredited)}; The Kissing Bandit {Albert Sendry; George Stoll, both uncredited)}; 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: Joan of Arc (music by Hugo Friedhofer, picture of a scene from the film, Ingrid Bergman)
- 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 (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}, (review by Gail Kubik}; Johnny Belinda {Max Steiner}, (review by Gene Forrell); The Snake Pit {Alfred Newman}, (review by William Hamilton}.
- The Lighter Films: Words and Music {Rogers & Hart}; The Sun Comes Up
Chicken Every Sunday; Boy With the Green Hair; So Dear To My Heart. - 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
- 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; Esther Waters; The Barkleys of Broadway; A Kiss in the Dark; A Connecticut Yankee.
- 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; Letter to Three Wives; Champion; Home of the Brave. (Gene Forrell, William Hamilton)
- Films in Music Education.
- Music for Films in Television (Roger Bowman)
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