Contents (click here for detailed listing, including examples discussed)

• Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• A Note on the Text
  
  
• Preface
  • The Need for Competent Film Music Criticism (a pamphlet for those who care about FILM AS ART, with a final section for those who do not)
    
    
• Part One: Film Music Topics
  • The Psychology of Film Music
  • The News and the Muse
• Featured Music: ‘Classical’ Quotations
• Hollywood
• British Film Music
• Film Music of the World
• Film-musical Ingredients
• Films and the Ballet
• ‘Filmized’ Opera and Oratorio
  
  
• Part Two: Film Music Composers
  • William Alwyn
  • Malcom Arnold
  • Georges Auric
  • Arnold Bax
  • Arthur Benjamin
  • Leonard Bernstein
  • Benjamin Britten
  • Anton Karas (with Kurt Weill)
  • Joseph Kosma
  • Frank Loesser
  • Gian Carlo Menotti
  • Alan Rawsthorne
  • Renzo Rosselini
  • Mátyá s Seiber
  • Virgil Thomson
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Roman Vlad
  • William Walton
    
    
• Part Three: Film Music Criticism
  • [composite columns, see Contents for detailed listing]
    
    
• Part Four: Television Music
  • Unite, Lowbrows!
  • ‘Personality': BBC and ITV
  • For or Against?
  • Welcome to William Glock
  • Problem of Production
  • Lunch with Lionel Salter: Education, Billings and Announcements
  • NATO and Eurovision
  • ITV Steps In; Producing String Players; New TV Opera; Thought for the Century
  • The Musical Future
    
    
• Bibliography
  
  
• Index

see also:

• introduction
• publication details and contents
• excerpts from the book