Louis and Bebe Barron's Forbidden Planet: A Film Score Guide

By James Wierzbicki

James Wierzbicki's book on the score for Forbidden Planet deals with the composers' backgrounds; the composers' studio techniques; the critcal context of 1950's American science-fiction films and a summary of cirical readings of Forbidden Planet; an analysis of the decontextualized music as presented on the 1977 "original soundtrack album"; and a cue-by-cue analysis of the Barrons' music as it is actually used in the film. With numerous transcriptions and graphs to illustrate various aspects of musical structure, this study blazes a much-needed trail in the study of electronic music.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810856700
• ISBN13: 9780810856707
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"