Film music and beyond : writings on music and the screen, 1946-59

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The Need for Competent Film Music Criticism 3 -- A pamphlet for those who care about Film as Art, with a final section for those who do not -- Part 1 Film Music Topics -- The Psychology of Film Music 21 -- / Arthur Benjamin Master of Bankdam -- / Georges Auric La belle at la bete -- The News and the Muse 25 -- Featured Music: 'Classical' Quotations -- 1 The Question of Quotation 30 -- / W. A. Mozart Apartment for Peggy -- / Felix Mendelssohn, Richard Wagner Fools Rush In -- / W. A. Mozart Lady Hamilton -- / J. S. Bach La symphonie pastorale -- 2 Reply to Pizzetti 32 -- Hollywood -- 1 Hollywood Music -- Another View 36 -- Various -- 2 Hollywood Orchestrators: The Dragon Shows His Teeth 41 -- / Aaron Copland The Heiress -- 3 From Auden to Hollywood (Through Route) 47 -- / Frederick Hollander Born to be Bad -- British Film Music -- 1 An Appeal to Constructive Consciences 51 -- 2 Film Music: British 53 -- 3 LCMC-ICA Failure 57 -- Film Music of the World -- 1 Continental, British and American 60 -- / Oscar Straus La Ronde -- / Joseph Kosma Three Telegrams -- / Benjamin Frankel Appointment with Venus, Man in the White Suit -- / Alan Rawsthorne Where No Vultures Fly -- / Daniele Amfitheatrof Rommel: Desert Fox, Letter from an Unknown Woman -- 2 World Review 63 -- / Georges Auric La belle et la bete -- / Bernard Herrmann 5 Fingers -- / Alex North Viva Zapata! -- / Bronislau Kaper Invitation -- / Michael Jary Madchen mit Beziehungen -- / Wolfgang Zeller Der Schatten des Herrn Monitor -- / Alois Melichar Maria Theresia -- / Gustavo Pitaluga Los Olvidados -- / Dag Wiren Mademoiselle Julie -- Film-musical Ingredients -- 1 Film-musical Atmosphere 67 -- / The Festival of Youth Bob Busby, Holiday Camp -- / Rene Cloerec Douce -- / Franz Waxman The Two Mrs. Carrolls -- 2 Music in Documentary Film 68 -- The Edinburgh Festival -- 3 The Film Dirge 70 -- / John Woolridge Fame is the Spur -- / Bretton Byrd The White Unicorn -- / Miklos Rosza Jungle Book -- / Alan Rawsthorne Uncle Silas -- / Yves Baudrier Bataille du Rail -- 4 The Simple Tune 71 -- / Alessandro Cicognini Shoe Shine -- / Vincent Scotto The Well-digger's Daughter -- / Edouart Flament La maternelle -- / Benjamin Britten Instruments of the Orchestra -- / Nino Rota Vivere in pace -- / Georges Auric It Always Rains on Sunday -- 5 Noise as Leitmotiv 74 -- / Georges Auric It Always Rains on Sunday -- / Alan Rawsthorne Uncle Silas -- / Walter Goehr Great Expectations; Brighton Rock -- 6 Noisy Music and Musical Noise 79 -- White Corridors -- 7 Tonal Structures; The Documentary Approach The Function of 'Featured' Music 82 -- / Mischa Spoliansky Turn the Key Softly -- / Camille Saint-Saens L'assassinat du Duede Guise, The Blue Lamp, The Square Ring -- / Guy Warrack A Queen is Crowned; Gilbert and Sullivan -- / Franz Waxman Man on a Tightrope; The Man Between -- / Robert Gill Valley of Song -- / Arthur Bliss The Beggar's Opera -- 8 Problems of Integration 84 -- / Malcolm Arnold The Night My Number Came Up -- / Arthur Bliss, William Alwyn, Roberto Gerhard War in the Air -- / Roman Vlad Picasso -- / Lars-Erik Larsson The Great Adventure -- / Karl-Birger Blomdahl Sawdust and Tinsel -- 9 Speech Rhythm 87 -- / William Alwyn The Ship that Died of Shame -- The Rocking Horse Winner -- Films and the Ballet 91 -- / Brian Easdale The Red Shoes -- / Arthur Benjamin Steps of the Ballet -- 'Filmized' Opera and Oratorio -- 1 Revolution or Retrogression? 94 -- / Gioacchino Rossini The Barber of Seville -- 2 Another Filmed Opera 98 -- / Giuseppe Verdi Rigoletto -- 3 Tales from the Vienna Hollywoods 100 -- / J. S. Bach St. Matthew Passion -- 4 Carmen a la Hollywood 103 -- / Georges Bizet Carmen Jones -- 5 The Operatic Problem 106 -- / Giacomo Puccini Madame Butterfly -- Part 2 Film Music Composers -- 1 / William Alwyn Bad and Great Work' 111 -- Cure for Love -- The Rocking Horse Winner -- 2 / 'Malcom Arnold Oscarred' The Bridge on the River Kwai 116 -- 3 'Georges Auric at Film Music's Best': Lap...respectueuse 119 -- 4 / Arnold Bax Oliver Twist 123 -- 5 / Arthur Benjamin The Conquest of Everest, Above Us the Waves 125 -- 6 / Leonard Bernstein On the Waterfront 133 -- 7 / Benjamin Britten Night Mail; A Film Analysis of the Orchestra' 137 -- A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra -- 8 / Anton Karas The Third Man 146 -- / Kurt Weill The Threepenny Opera -- 9 / Joseph Kosma The Case of Dr. Laurent 149 -- 10 / Frank Loesser Hans Christian Anderson 150 -- 11 / Gian Carlo Menotti The Medium 151 -- 12 / Alan Rawsthorne West of Zanzibar, Lease of Life, The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci (2 essays) 154 -- 13 'The Film-Musical Art of Renzo Rosselini': Roma, citta aperta 166 -- 14 / Matyas Seiber Graham Sutherland 167 -- 15 / Virgil Thomson Louisiana Story 168 -- 16 / Ralph Vaughan Williams Scott of the Antartic 172 -- 17 / Roman Vlad La beaute du Diable 174 -- 18 / William Walton Hamlet 178 -- Part 3 Film Music Criticism (Composite Columns) -- 1 'Film Music: Some Objections' -- / Miklos Rozsa Spellbound 183 -- / Charles Williams Quiet Weekend -- / Nicholas Brodsky Beware of Pity -- / Leigh Hasline From This Day Forward -- 2 / Arthur Honegger Un revenant 185 -- / Benjamin Frankel London Belongs to Me -- / William Alwyn The Winslow Boy -- / William Alwyn The Fallen Idol -- / Leith Stevens Night Song -- 3 'Film Music and No Film Music' 187 -- / Ian Whyte Bonnie Prince Charlie -- / Miklos Rozsa Secret Beyond the Door, 'No Film Music' (Le corbeau, Scarface, The Small Voice, Rope) -- / Georges Auric Another Shore -- / Antony Hopkins It's Hard to be Good, Vice Versa, Lady Rohesia -- / Bernard Stevens Once a Jolly Swagman -- 4 / Roy Webb Rachel and the Stranger 188 -- / Hans J. Salter Don't Trust Your Husband -- / Antony Hopkins Vote for Hugget -- / William Alwyn The History of Mr. Polly -- / Georges Auric Silent Dust -- / Brian Easdale The Small Back Room -- / Arthur Benjamin Steps of the Ballet -- / Arthur Wilkinson Once Upon a Dream -- 5 'Nine Swiss Shorts' 190 -- 6 / Arthur Bliss Christopher Columbus 192 -- / Benjamin Frankel Trottie True -- / Lars-Erik Larsson Iris -- / Alban Berg Lulu (film sequence from the opera) -- 7 'Chromatic C major' -- / Richard Arnell The Land 193 -- / Benjamin Frankel Give Us This Day -- 8 / Benjamin Frankel The Net 195 -- / Matyas Seiber Alcoholism, Agriculture, Productivity -- / Carl de Groof The Last Bridge -- / Felice Lattuada The Overcoat -- / Andre Previn Bad Day at Black Rock -- / Hugo Friedhofer White Feather -- / Irving Berlin There's No Business like Show Business -- / Rafael Larista El Bruto -- / Leonard Bernstein On the Waterfront -- 9 / Benjamin Frankel A Kid for Two Farthings, The Prisoner 198 -- / Karl-Birger Blomdahl Sawdust and Tinsel -- / Malcolm Arnold 'Maximum Effort' from War in the Air -- / William Alwyn 'Fifty North' from War in the Air -- 10 / Georges Auric The Lavender Hill Mob 200 -- / Arthur Benjamin Manana -- / Francis Chagrin Charley Moon -- / Alan Rawsthorne The Man Who Never Was -- / Matyas Seiber A Short Vision, A Town Like Alice -- / William Walton Richard III -- 11 'Background and Foreground Music' 202 -- / Benjamin Frankel A Kid for Two Farthings -- / William Alwyn Smiley -- / Arthur Benjamin The Man Who Knew Too Much -- / Stanley Black My Teenage Daughter -- 12 [Tonal Structures'] 'No Music' 205 -- / Malcolm Arnold A Hill in Korea -- / Benjamin Frankel The Iron Petticoat -- 'The International Scene' -- Part 4 Television Music -- 1 Unite, Lowbrows! 213 -- 2 'Personality': BBC and ITV 216 -- 3 For or Against? 219 -- 4 Welcome to William Glock 222 -- 5 Problem of Production 225 -- 6 Lunch with Lionel Salter: Education, Billings and Announcements 228 -- 7 NATO and Eurovision 231 -- 8 ITV Steps In; Producing String Players; New TV Opera; Thought for the Century 234 -- 9 The Musical Future 237