Description:
Robust yet accessible, Hitting the Right Notes: Film Directors and Composers in Harmony uses versatile analytical tools from film studies, music cognition, and music theory in close readings that span eras and genres, incorporate film and musical elements beyond just harmony, and show the magic directors and composers create together.
Review Quotes:
"Expansive and engaging, Friedman and Lofthouse's book offers a carefully curated tour through movie scoring history--guided by a strong set of central questions and pursued through a succession of richly contextualized and probing close readings."
--Frank Lehman "author of Hollywood Harmony: Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema"