Music for Prime Time: A History of American Television Themes and Scoring

With hundreds of interviews conducted over a 35-year span, this book is the most comprehensive history of television scoring to date.

Music composed for television had, until recently, never been taken seriously by scholars or critics. Catchy TV themes, often for popular weekly series, were fondly remembered but not considered much more culturally significant than commercial jingles. Yet noted composers like John Williams, Henry Mancini, Jerry Goldsmith and Lalo Schifrin learned and/or honed...