The Craft of Music Composed for Television

TVC 625.5: Ed welcomes back Jon Burlingame, longtime music journalist and our nation's leading writer on the subject of music for films and television. Jon's latest book, Music for Prime Time: A History of American Television and Scoring, not only includes more than 450 interviews with composers, orchestrators, producers, editors, and musicians who are or who were active in the field of music for television, but tells the back story of every great TV theme music or TV theme song while also examining the many neglected and frequently underrated orchestral and jazz compositions for television that date back to the late 1940s. Topics this segment include why the craft of music composed for television is another form of storytelling; some of the notable names in music who also left their mark in television (including band leaders Count Basie and Duke Ellington and jazz artists Dave Grusin and Dave Brubeck); and the back story of how Earle Hagen composed the famous theme to The Andy Griffith Show. Music for Prime Time is available in bookstores everywhere through Oxford University Press and Amazon.com.

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