Movie scores have the power to elevate the performances onscreen, enhancing the emotion of the moment, whether that be fear, sadness, or joy. Without composers, movies leave audiences with piecemeal ...

A needle drop acts as a highlighter. When a song is played at a specific moment in a movie or TV show, it draws big, bold colors around the scene, giving it outsized importance in the production’s ...

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What does it mean for film music – subordinated, contingent, 'unheard' – to be plucked from its intended context and placed at the forefront of the listener's attention? The tradition of excerpting ...

Music transforms movies. I’m not talking about the score, or songs written for movies like anything Lin-Manuel Miranda does, but the great songs that when you hear them later on the radio or on ...

Williams biographer Tim Greiving writes that recent headlines quoting the famed composer don't tell the full story. By Tim Greiving I’m truly stunned by the still-spreading wildfire ignited online by ...