The Film Music Society

Foreword This collection of the original thirteen issues of Elmer Bernstein's Film Music Notebook is the realization of a long-held dream for both film-music aficionados and trustees of The Film Music Society. These booklets were available only to the few hundred subscribers to the composer's...

Introduction: The Literature of Film Music Clifford McCarty Is there a literature of film music? "The tendency has been to suppose not," wrote Martin Marks, ^ and as late as 1977 Roy Prendergast declared that with the exception of a few articles by Lawrence Morton, no body of intelligent and...

Foreword With the publication of Yilm Music 2, the Film Music Society is fulfilling many of its purposes and goals, such as creating public awareness of the artistic value of film music, educating the public, documenting the history of fdm music, and publishing scholarly works. Publishing a book...