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A beautifully detailed treatise. -- Howard Shore * Grammy and Academy Award-winning composer, The Lord of the Rings * From the first page to the last, the first edition of Scoring the Screen was a must read for anyone interested in film scoring. This second edition beautifully expands on the insights shared in the original edition. Hill’s ability to synthesize his thoughts, through careful analysis of the music into a coherent theory on the techniques shared by many of the greatest scores is a gift to the field. -- Jay Weigel * Grammy award-winning composer and producer *

A beautifully detailed treatise. -- Howard Shore * Grammy and Academy Award-winning composer, The Lord of the Rings * From the first page to the last, the first edition of Scoring the Screen was a must read for anyone interested in film scoring. This second edition beautifully expands on the insights shared in the original edition. Hill’s ability to synthesize his thoughts, through careful analysis of the music into a coherent theory on the techniques shared by many of the greatest scores is a gift to the field. -- Jay Weigel * Grammy award-winning composer and producer * Going back to my earliest days writing scores for Disney Animation, Andy Hill has impressed me as a passionate and knowledgeable spokesman for those of us who create music. I couldn’t imagine a better guide to explore the world of film music, and I’m delighted that he has written this thoughtful and informative book. -- Alan Menken * EGOT-winning composer, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast *

From the first page to the last, the first edition of Scoring the Screen was a must read for anyone interested in film scoring. This second edition beautifully expands on the insights shared in the original edition. Hill’s ability to synthesize his thoughts, through careful analysis of the music into a coherent theory on the techniques shared by many of the greatest scores is a gift to the field. -- Jay Weigel * Grammy award-winning composer and producer *

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Andy Hill is a veteran of the film and television music industry, former Vice-President of Music Production for Walt Disney Studios, Grammy Award-winning music producer, founder of the MFA program in Music Composition for the Screen at Columbia College Chicago, USA, and author of five published novels of speculative fiction. Films for which he served as executive in charge of music production have earned nine Academy Awards in music categories. He has served as Dean of the Film Scoring Academy of Europe, Bulgaria, since 2019.

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