Max Steiner : composing, Casablanca, and the golden age of film music

Max Steiner : composing, Casablanca, and the golden age of film music / Peter Wegele.

This biography of Steiner provides insight into how the film music industry worked and functioned during the Golden era of film scores. The central part of this work is an analysis of Steiner's score to Casablanca from a musician's point of view. The author also compares Steiner's wor...

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Main Author: Wegele, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield, [2014]
Subjects:
Steiner, Max, > 1888-1971.
Steiner, Max, > 1888-1971. > Casablanca.
Steiner, Max, > 1888-1971
Casablanca (Steiner, Max)
Film composers > United States > Biography.
Composers > United States > Biography.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Theory.
Composers
Film composers
United States
collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Click for online access
Uniform Title:Filmkomponist Max Steiner (1888-1971).
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 The Life of Max Steiner
  • Chapter 3 Casablanca
  • Appendix A Comparison of Max Steiner with Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alfred Newman, Franz Waxman, and Hugo Friedhofer
  • Appendix B Awards and Honors
  • Filmography
  • Bibliography
  • About the Author.

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