Master Class - Film Music: Creating the Soundscape for Your Film with Peter Golub
RECOMMENDED RESOURCES FROM PETER GOLUB AND SUNDANCE CO//AB
Films/Series Referenced in Master Class
● Carol (2015) ● Wonderstruck (2017) ● True Grit (2010) ● The Morning Show - pilot (2019) ● The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011) ● The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
Organizations
● ASCAP ● BMI ● Film Music Foundation ● The Society of Composers & Lyricists ● Alliance for Women Film Composers ● Composers Diversity Collective ● Institute for Composer Diversity
Books
● Knowing the Score, by David Morgan ● Contemporary Film Music; Investigating Cinema Narratives and Composition, edited by Lindsay Coleman and Joakim Tillman ● Music, Sound and Filmmakers, edited by James Wierzbicki ● The Reel World; Scoring for Pictures, by Jeff Rona ● Scoring the Screen; the Secret Language of Film Music, by Andy Hill ● Global Soundtracks; Worlds of Film Music, edited by Mark Slobin ● The Emerging Film Composer; an Introduction to the People, Problems and Psychology of the Film Music Business, by Richard Bellis ● The Hollywood Film Music Reader, edited by Mervyn Cooke
Videos featuring Sundance Advisors, exclusively on Sundance Co//ab:
● Amplifying Story Through Music ● Composing for Film and TV with Mark Isham ● Using Sound to Craft Meaning with Yance Ford
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● Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum on Composing for Film ● Making Music and Films with Kamasi Washington ● Director Rob Epstein on Crafting the Music of THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK ● The Music and Sounds of Catherine Hardwicke’s Films ● The Basics of Being a Music Editor with Adam Smalley ● The Role of a Music Supervisor with John Houlihan
Sundance Institute Film Music Program:
● The Sundance Institute Film Music Program, led by Peter Golub, connects composers and directors, giving them firsthand experience of the collaborative process with the goal of nurturing the development of music in film. Learn more here.
Recommended Viewing by Film Composer
● Erich Wolfgang Korngold ○ Robin Hood ○ Sea Hawk ○ Kings Row ○ The Adventures of Robin Hood
● Max Steiner ○ The Letter ○ Now Voyager ○ The Big Sleep ○ The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ○ Key Largo ○ The Searchers
● Sergei Prokofiev ○ Alexander Nevsky ○ Ivan the Terrible
● Dmitri Tiomkin ○ Shadow of a Doubt ○ It’s a Wonderful Life ○ High Noon ○ Dial M for Murder ○ Giant
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● Alfred Newman ○ Wuthering Heights ○ The Grapes of Wrath ○ How Green Was My Valley ○ The Moon is Down ○ The Song of Bernadette ○ Dragonwyck ○ The Razor’s Edge ○ The Snake Pit ○ A Letter to Three Wives ○ All About Eve
● William Walton ○ Richard II ○ Hamlet ○ Henry V
● Franz Waxman ○ Rebecca ○ Suspicion ○ To Have and Have Not ○ Sunset Boulevard ○ A Place in the Sun ○ Rear Window
● Anton Karas ○ The Third Man
● Miklos Rozsa ○ Five Graves to Cairo ○ Double Indemnity ○ Spellbound ○ Madame Bovary ○ Quo Vadis ○ Lust for Life ○ Ben Hur ○ The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
● Alex North ○ A Streetcar Named Desire
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○ Viva Zapata ○ The Bad Seed ○ Spartacus ○ Cleopatra
● Bernard Hermann ○ Citizen Kane ○ The Ghost and Mrs. Muir ○ The Day the Earth Stood Still ○ Vertigo ○ North by Northwest ○ Psycho ○ Cape Fear ○ Jason and the Argonauts ○ Fahrenheit 451 ○ Taxi Driver
● Nina Rota ○ The White Sheik ○ La Strada ○ Nights of Cabiria ○ La Dolce Vita ○ 8 ½ ○ The Leopard ○ Juliet of the Spirits ○ The Godfather (p 1 and 2) ○ Amarcord
● David Raksin ○ Laura ○ The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ○ Forever Amber ○ Whirlpool ○ The Bad and the Beautiful
● Leonard Bernstein ○ On the Waterfront
● Satyajit Ray ○ Shakespeare-Wallah
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○ Distant Thunder
● Elmer Bernstein ○ Sweet Smell of Success ○ The Magnificent Seven ○ Birdman of Alcatraz ○ To Kill a Mockingbird ○ The Great Escape ○ True Grit ○ The Great Santini ○ An American Werewolf in London ○ Ghostbusters ○ My Left Foot ○ The Grifters ○ Far From Heaven
● Henry Mancini ○ Touch of Evil ○ Breakfast at Tiffany’s ○ Days of Wine and Roses ○ Charade ○ The Pink Panther ○ The Great Race ○ Two for the Road ○ Mommie Dearest ○ Victor/Victoria
● Leonard Rosenman ○ East of Eden ○ Rebel Without a Cause
● Aaron Copland ○ Of Mice and Men ○ Our Town ○ The Red Pony ○ The Heiress
● Maurice Jarre ○ Lawrence of Arabia ○ Doctor Zhivago
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○ Is Paris Burning? ○ The Professionals ○ The Damned ○ The Year of Living Dangerously ○ Fatal Attraction ○ A Passage to India
● Georges Delerue ○ Shoot the Piano Player ○ Jules and Jim ○ Contempt ○ A Man for All Seasons ○ The Day of the Jackal ○ Platoon
● Ennio Morricone ○ The Battle of Algiers ○ Teorema ○ Once Upon a Time in the West ○ Days of Heaven ○ Cinema Paradiso ○ Bugsy ○ The Untouchables ○ The Hateful Eight
● Jerry Goldsmith ○ Papillon ○ The Omen ○ Coma ○ Alien ○ Total Recall ○ Basic Instinct ○ Rudy ○ L.A. Confidential ○ Chinatown ○ Planet of the Apes ○ Patton
● Toru Takemitsu ○ Harakiri
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○ Woman in the Dunes ○ Kwaidan ○ The Face of Another ○ Dodes’ka-den ○ Antonion Gaudi ○ Ran
● John Williams ○ Jaws ○ Close Encounters of the Third Kind ○ E.T. ○ Star Wars ○ Empire of the Sun ○ Superman ○ Home Alone ○ Schindler’s List ○ Jurassic Park ○ Saving Private Ryan ○ Catch Me If You Can ○ The Book Thief
● Lalo Schifrin ○ Dirty Harry ○ Mission Impossible ○ Voyage of the Damned
● John Barry ○ Séance on a Wet Afternoon ○ Goldfinger ○ King Rat ○ The Chase ○ Born Free ○ The Lion in Winter ○ The Day of the Locust ○ Body Heat ○ Out of Africa ○ Dances With Wolves
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○ The Devil’s Disciple ○ Billy Liar ○ Nicholas and Alexandra ○ Equus ○ Murder on the Orient Express ○ Four Weddings and a Funeral
● Philip Glass ○ Koyaanisqatsi ○ The Thin Blue Line ○ Kundun ○ Fog of War ○ The Truman Show ○ The Hours ○ The Illusionist
● Randy Newman ○ Ragtime ○ The Natural ○ Awakenings ○ Toy Story ○ Seabiscuit ○ Marriage Story
● Michael Nyman ○ The Draughtsman’s Contract ○ The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover ○ The Piano ○ Man on Wire
● Howard Shore ○ The Fly ○ Dead Ringers ○ The Silence of the Lambs ○ Mrs. Doubtfire ○ Philadelphia ○ Ed Wood ○ The Game ○ The Lord of the Rings
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○ Gangs of New York
● Michael Kamen ○ Lethal Weapon ○ Die Hard ○ The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ○ Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves ○ Don Juan Demarco
● Gabriel Yared ○ Camille Claudel ○ The English Patient ○ The Talented Mr. Ripley
● Alan Silverstri ○ Back to the Future ○ Predator ○ Who Framed Roger Rabbit ○ The Abyss ○ Forrest Gump ○ Stuart Little ○ The Polar Express ○ Night at the Museum – ○ Captain America: The First Avenger ○ The Avengers ○ Cosmos: Possible Worlds
● Mark Isham ○ The Times of Harvey Milk ○ The Hitcher ○ Little Man Tate ○ A River Runs Through It ○ Quiz Show ○ The Cooler ○ Crash ○ The Black Dahlia ○ 42
● Gustavo Santaolalla ○ Amores Perros
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○ 21 Grams ○ Brokeback Mountain ○ Babel
● James Newton Howard ○ Pretty Woman ○ The Man in the Moon ○ The Prince of Tides ○ The Fugitive ○ The Sixth Sense ○ Snow Falling on Cedars ○ The Village ○ Collateral ○ King Kong ○ Michael Clayton ○ Defiance ○ Snow White and the Huntsman ○ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them ○ Red Sparrow
● Danny Elfman ○ Pee-wee’s Big Adventure ○ Batman ○ Edward Scissorhands ○ The Nightmare Before Christmas ○ To Die For ○ Mars Attacks! ○ Good Will Hunting ○ A Simple Plan ○ Big Fish ○ Alice in Wonderland
● Patrick Doyle ○ Henry V ○ Much Ado About Nothing ○ Carlito’s Way ○ Sense and Sensibility ○ Donnie Brasco ○ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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● James Horner ○ Glory ○ Field of Dreams ○ Patriot Games ○ The Pelican Brief ○ Legends of the Fall ○ Braveheart ○ Apollo 13 ○ Titanic ○ Enemy at the Gates ○ A Beautiful Mind ○ Iris
● Elliot Goldenthal ○ Drugstore Cowboy ○ Heat ○ Michael Collins ○ Titus ○ Frida
● Carter Burwell ○ Raising Arizona ○ Barton Fink ○ Fargo ○ The Big Lebowski ○ Gods and Monsters ○ Being John Malkovich ○ Before Night Falls ○ Adaptation ○ In Bruges ○ A Serious Man ○ Carol ○ Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
● David Newman ○ Heathers ○ The Nutty Professor ○ Matilda ○ Galaxy Quest ○ Bedazzled
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○ Ice Age
● Thomas Newman ○ The Lost Boys ○ Flesh and Bone ○ The Shawshank Redemption ○ Meet Joe Black ○ American Beauty ○ The Green Mile ○ In the Bedroom Road to Perdition ○ Finding Nemo ○ Skyfall ○ Bridge of Spies
● Anne Dudley ○ The Crying Game ○ The Full Monty ○ Elle
● Christopher Young ○ Hellraiser ○ Jennifer 8 ○ Murder in the First ○ Species ○ Hard Rain ○ The Hurricane ○ Wonder Boys ○ Bless the Child ○ Swordfish ○ The Shipping News
● Hans Zimmer ○ Rain Man ○ Pacific Heights ○ Thelma & Louise ○ The Lion King ○ Crimson Tide ○ The Thin Red Line ○ Gladiator
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○ Black Hawk Down ○ Sherlock Holmes ○ Inception ○ Dunkirk
● Tan Dun ○ Fallen ○ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
● Mychael Danna ○ The Ice Storm ○ The Sweet Hereafter ○ Felicia’s Journey ○ Moneyball ○ Life of Pi
● Rachel Portman ○ The Cider House Rules ○ The Legend of Bagger Vance ○ Chocolat ○ Oliver Twist ○ Never Let Me Go
● Jocelyn Pook ○ Eyes Wide Shut
● Alexandre Desplat ○ Girl With a Pearl Earring ○ Syriana ○ The Painted Veil ○ The Ghost Writer ○ Moonrise Kingdom ○ The Shape of Water
● Jon Brion ○ Magnolia ○ Punch-Drunk Love ○ Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ○ Lady Bird
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● Clint Mansell ○ Pi ○ The Fountain ○ Black Swan
● Edward Shearmur ○ Wings of the Dove ○ Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her ○ K-PAX ○ Reign of Fire ○ Johnny English ○ Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
● Marco Beltrami ○ Scream ○ Hellboy ○ The Omen ○ 3:10 to Yuma ○ The Hurt Locker ○ Hitman: Agent 47 ○ A Quiet Place ○ Free Solo
● Michael Giacchino ○ The Incredibles ○ Ratatouille ○ Star Trek ○ Up ○ Jojo Rabbit
● Johann Johannsson ○ Prisoners ○ The Theory of Everything ○ Sicario ○ Arrival
● Jonny Greenwood ○ There Will Be Blood ○ The Master ○ Phantom Thread
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● Nicholas Britell ○ Moonlight
● Hildur Guonadottir ○ Strong Island ○ Chernobyl ○ Joker
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