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“THE HOUSE IS THE MUSIC”

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  • Scoring the New GHOSTBUSTERS

The Expansive Film Music of Clinton Shorter

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IN REMEMBRANCE: Terry Plumeri in the musique fantastique

  • Composer/Conductor found tragically murdered in his home

CABIN FEVER: The Music Gets Under Your Skin

  • Interview: The Horror & The Hero Film Music of Kevin Riepl

The DARKER SHORE of Film Music

  •  Ryan Shore Interview: On Scoring Horror, Comedy, and the Meeting of the Two

DARK AWAKENING: Scoring the Modern Haunted House
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  • Interview with composers Terry Michael Huud & Michael Huey

The Return of THE X-FILES

  • Mark Snow Talks About Scoring the New Mini-Series

Paul Haslinger on FEAR THE WALKING DEAD

  • Scoring the Zombie Apocalypse Spin-Off

      INTERVIEW: HORROR & FANTASY MUSIC OF SIMON BOSWELL

  • An update to my 2009 interview with Simon covering recent genre scores, his record label, and taking his horror/sf scores into the live arena.

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Midnight Marquee Press to Publish Continuation of “Musique Fantastique, Second Edition” series

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Announcing: Musique Fantastique, Second Edition
100+ Years of Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror Film Music
By Randall D. Larson
Creature Features Press: 2012

This thoroughly re-written and massively expanded new edition of Larson’s seminal 1985 book will be spread over a landscape of four large volumes, covering every aspect of music for fantastic films from the Silents through the Summer Blockbusters of 2011. Focusing on the composers whose work has enlivened the movies of monsters and madmen, fantastic lands and distant worlds, Larson analyzes fantasy, science fiction, and horror film music around the world, from A TRIP TO THE MOON in 1902 to TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON in 2011. Eschewing criticism for commentary, Larson incorporates interviews with hundreds of composers along with his own perceptive analytic commentary and the perspectives of a myriad of other reviewers, writers, and commentators, providing in Musique Fantastique, Second Edition a comprehensive historical overview of how music has been used in the fantastic genre.

Totaling 34 Chapters and more than 1700 pages, featuring a new introduction by film composer Christopher Young, Musique Fantastique, Second Edition offers a definitive historical context for the evolution and development of film music within science fiction, fantasy, and horror cinema.

Book One now available from Creature Features.
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Musique Fantastique, Second Edition
100+ Years of Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror Film Music
By Randall D. LarsonMusic for science fiction, fantasy, and horror films has always been a particularly unique area of film scoring. Just as fantasy has allowed the minds of writ­ers and filmmakers to flow into new and unexplored regions, so has it allowed the imaginations of film composers to create much of the finest music composed for motion pictures. In 1985, Randall D. Larson’s Musique Fantastique was the first book-length analytical commentary of these genres of film music. In this new edition, Larson has thoroughly rewritten and expanded that book into a massive comprehensive examination of music for fantasy, sci-fi, and horror films and television, from the silents through the summer blockbusters of 2012. Intricately detailed and wide-ranging in its scope, Musique Fantastique 2 is presented in four books spanning some 1700 pages.“I would like to thank Randall on behalf of the entire music community for his years of commitment to promoting film music and the film composers that write it. Most importantly, he has always done it entirely out of true love of music and what it can do in these kinds of films.  It’s been this passion for genre music that prompted [this] analysis and commentary.” – from the Introduction by Christopher Young.One Book – Four Volumes – Encyclopedic Commentary – Essential ReadingBOOK ONE Now Available from from Creature Features.