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Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies

Neil Brand

Martin Scorsese

David Arnold

Richard M Sherman

Lalo Schifrin

Francis Welch

Michael Poole

John Das

Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies: Episode 2: Pop Goes the Soundtrack

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Pop Goes the Soundtrack

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Episode 2: Pop Goes the Soundtrack

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How composers embraced jazz, pop and rock to bring fresh energy to film scores.

Neil Brand explores how, in the second half of the 20th century, composers and film-makers embraced jazz, pop and rock to bring fresh energy to film scores.

Composer Neil Brand explores how, in the second half of the 20th century, composers and film-makers embraced jazz, pop and rock to bring fresh energy and relevance to film scores. 

He shows how in the 1960s, films as diverse as the James Bond movies, spaghetti westerns and Disney's musicals drew on the talents of pop arrangers and composers like John Barry, Ennio Morricone and the Sherman Brothers to create unforgettable soundtracks. But the role of the film composer would subsequently be challenged by directors like Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino, who showed that a soundtrack consisting of carefully chosen pop songs could be as effective as a specially written one. 

Neil's journey sees him meet leading film-makers and composers including Martin Scorsese and composers Richard Sherman (Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book), Lalo Schifrin (Bullitt) and David Arnold (Casino Royale).

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