Overtones and Undertones Reading Film Music

"Brown brings music theory to bear upon film theory, and the result is startling. . . . An extremely important work."--William Van Wert, Temple University "Royal S. Brown has contributed a major resource on film music.Overtones and Undertonesis an outstanding in-depth exploration of the relationship between music and motion picture."--Fred Karlin, composer "Royal Brown's book on film music,Overtones and Undertones, is a remarkable document: an enormous amount of information assembled and made sense of by a fine intellect. Prof. Brown demonstrates that it is indeed possible for an academic--and a professor of Romance Languages at that--to deal intelligently with our esoteric art."--David Raksin,composerBrown, Royal S. is the author of 'Overtones and Undertones Reading Film Music', published 1994 under ISBN 9780520085442 and ISBN 0520085442.