James Newton Howard's Signs : a film score guide / Erik Heine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heine, Erik, 1976- author.

Series:

Scarecrow film score guides ; no. 17.

Film score guides ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Howard, James Newton. Signs.

Howard, James Newton.

Local Subjects:

Howard, James Newton. Signs.

Physical Description:

xvi, 211 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]

Summary:

Released in 2002, M. Night Shyamalan's Signs was the director's follow-up to The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable and his third collaboration with composer James Newton Howard. Well received by audiences and critics alike, the film was often cited by reviewers for its music. With its dependence on a single motive, the score is unique in Howard's career and is one of his most effective and haunting works. In James Newton Harvard's Signs: A Film Score Guide, Erik Heine provides the first close reading of the composer's work. Heine discusses Howard's musical style and influences, as well as his ability to compose for a variety of genres-acknowledging him as one of the most versatile composers working today. The book shows how early sketches of cues for Signs were developed into the final score, allowing the reader insight into Howard's compositional process. It also demonstrates how Howard's style is difficult to pigeonhole, since his focus is on serving the needs of the film. Drawing on completed orchestrated scores as well as other material from the James Newton Howard Archive at the University of Southern California, the level of musical detail provided in this volume is unsurpassed. As a book that addresses Howard's compositional style-and the only volume that significantly examines the music in any Shyamalan film-James Newton Howard's Signs: A Film Score Guide will he of interest to music scholars, film scholars, and fans of the composer's work. Book jacket.

Contents:

Howard's musical background

Howard's film scoring technique

Historical and critical context of Signs

Sounds of science fiction and Shyamalan

Sketching and scoring Signs

Analysis of the score.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781442256033

1442256036

OCLC:

925426445