Scoring Italian Cinema: Patterns of Collaboration

Scoring Italian Cinema: Patterns of Collaboration redefines what it means to write music for the cinema. In eight richly illustrated chapters and a deft introduction, nine leading music and film scholars revisit the great theme of artistic collaboration from a heretofore unexplored angle: the relationship between film directors and composers in the "Long Italian Post-War" (ca. 1945–1975).

Spurred by the surfacing of printed and manuscript scores, sketches, drafts, tapes, letters and miscella...