Louis and Bebe Barron's Forbidden Planet

Download or read book Louis and Bebe Barron's Forbidden Planet written by James Wierzbicki and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.