The 2012 paperback book "TORN MUSIC: REJECTED FILM SCORES SELECTED HISTORY" by academic professor and writer Gergely Hubai sells for about $20 and has about 476 pages. There is a good website preview of the contents on the internet, but no critical reviews were found by me. Any suggestions or alternate books and sources from members here would be appreciated.
I LOVE this book - good 'bite sized' info, and tons of info I wasn't aware of - and I've been following 'this stuff' practically my whole life. It's a great read, and a steal if its $20.
Don't miss it, a great book full of full and sad, frustrating stories of rejected scores. Excellent stuff, the kind of book you can pick up from time to time and re-read in little bite sized chunks.
These are not specifically about rejected scores, although that does come up.
This is a good book, it has a lot of direct interviews with composers, and Robert Townson. A pretty good interview with Jerry Goldsmith. This was written in 2000, a pretty cheap buy, well worth it.
Just recalled another that I pulled from my stack now, The Score, written by concert composer Michael Schelle. This one is also excellent, well worth buying.
Picked it up while I was in LA for '12's Fans of Film Music. Made a great weekend that much greater. Very informative and entertaining. Can't recommend it highly enough.
98 percent of all the books I own is about films/movies or film music in one way or another. Of all of them I consider Torn Music is actually the best one. I don`t think there is another book I have read more the this book. I just love it.
This is a good book, it has a lot of direct interviews with composers, and Robert Townson. A pretty good interview with Jerry Goldsmith. This was written in 2000, a pretty cheap buy, well worth it.
It's a great book, the author is very methodic and you can tell by the way he writes he's a true film music fan. He puts a lot of information in every topic, and is always a fun read. Highly recommended, and I wouldn't think twice to buy a updated version.
Gergely Hubai has a regular, monthly column on the online FILM SCORE MONTHLY which includes not only material that he could not fit in his book, but new stories about composers and their unused scores.
The book is a great read and one that I can go back and reread for its well-researched sections and interviews with the composers themselves.
Please not that Hubai has had a hand in obtaining the release of two unreleased scores on Perseverance Records: Philip Lambro's Los Angeles, 1937, the unreleased score to CHINATOWN, and John Corigliano's score MUSIC FROM THE EDGE (guess what Mel Gibson film that this is from?).
Gergely Hubai has a regular, monthly column on the online FILM SCORE MONTHLY which includes not only material that he could not fit in his book, but new stories about composers and their unused scores.
The book is a great read and one that I can go back and reread for its well-researched sections and interviews with the composers themselves.
Please not that Hubai has had a hand in obtaining the release of two unreleased scores on Perseverance Records: Philip Lambro's Los Angeles, 1937, the unreleased score to CHINATOWN, and John Corigliano's score MUSIC FROM THE EDGE (guess what Mel Gibson film that this is from?).