On the Track offers a comprehensive guide to scoring for film and television. Covering all styles and genres, the authors, both noted film composers, cover everything from the nuts-and-bolts of timing, cuing, and recording through balancing the composer's aesthetic vision with the needs of the film [...]
Outlines the importance of music in movies, giving examples of the relationship's history, some of the greatest triumphs of music and film, and some of the people that have created the songs and scores[...]