Music for Prime Time
A History of American Television Themes and Scoring
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 28 June 2023
- ISBN 9780190618308
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages480 pages
- Size 256x188x35 mm
- Weight 1075 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 135 b/w halftones 424
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Short description:
This completely revised, updated, and expanded edition of Jon Burlingame's 1996 classic book covers themes not touched upon in the original version. With hundreds of interviews conducted over a 35-year span, this book is the most comprehensive history of television scoring to date.
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With hundreds of interviews conducted over a 35-year span, this book is the most comprehensive history of television scoring to date.
Music composed for television had, until recently, never been taken seriously by scholars or critics. Catchy TV themes, often for popular weekly series, were fondly remembered but not considered much more culturally significant than commercial jingles. Yet noted composers like John Williams, Henry Mancini, Jerry Goldsmith and Lalo Schifrin learned and/or honed their craft in television before going on to major success in feature films.
Oscar-winning film composers like Bernard Herrmann, Franz Waxman and Maurice Jarre wrote hours of music for television projects, and such high-profile jazz figures as Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck and Quincy Jones also contributed music to TV series. Concert-hall luminaries from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, and theater writers from Jerome Moross to Richard Rodgers, penned memorable scores for TV.
Music for Prime Time is the first serious, journalistic history of music for American television. It is the product of 35 years of research and more than 450 interviews with composers, orchestrators, producers, editors and musicians active in the field. Based on, but vastly expanded and revised from, an earlier book by the same author, this wide-ranging narrative not only tells the backstory of every great TV theme but also examines the many neglected and frequently underrated orchestral and jazz compositions for television dating back to the late 1940s.
Covering every series genre (crime, comedy, drama, westerns, action-adventure, fantasy and sci-fi), it also looks at music for animated series, news and documentary programming, TV-movies and miniseries, and how music for television has evolved in the era of cable and streaming options. It is the most comprehensive history of television scoring ever published.
Praise for the original edition, TV's Biggest Hits:
"Impeccably researched... crammed with musical facts, footnotes, biographical data - but also, lucky for us tune-deaf types, tons of juicy anecdotes about the making of our favorite tunes."
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. "Hi-yo, Silver!": The Birth of TV Music
2. "Book 'em, Danno": Cop and Detective Shows
3. "Head 'em up! Move 'em out!" The Westerns
4. "You are traveling through another dimension": Fantasy and Science Fiction
5. "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity": Drama
6. "Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale": Comedy
7. "Your mission, should you decide to accept it": Action-Adventure
8. "You are there": Documentaries, News and Information Programming
9. "Flintstones! Meet the Flintstones!" Cartoons in Prime Time
10. "My name is Kunta Kinte": Made-for-TV Movies and Miniseries
11. "Mrs. Peel, we're needed": British shows aired in the U.S.
12. "I couldn't possibly comment": Music in contemporary television
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Bibliography/Sources
Photo Credits
Index
