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Has anyone else read this book? I just got it from my library and am already nearly half-way through it. It’s fairly interesting and really analyzes the score as well as discusses Elfman’s scoring technique and stuff. Pretty good read, so far.
Yeah.. I read it a couple years ago and didn’t understand all of the technical stuff.. then I took Music Theory at my high school and I read it again and a lot of it made sense. I find myself going back to it whenever I sit down and listen to the score. Great book!
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I remember hearing about this book a few years ago, but forgot to check it out. Are there any others like it?
Yes but this is the only one about Danny Elfman. There are other great ones out there.
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I read this one few years back as well. It’s definitely interesting. I recommend taking Scott Smalley’s film music orchestration seminar. He worked on batman as an orchestrator, and as part of the class you get a gigantic book with about 800 pages of full scores of cues, including some from batman, as well as mission impossible. Also, an Elfman sketch score is in there for one of the MI cues. The class is on orchestration, but you can always analyze the score for compositional goodies too. I think he does one in LA and one in NY. Also in there are tons of Goldsmith and Basil P. Oh. and LONESOME DOVE!
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