Sounds and Scores

Sounds and Scores

Author: Henry Mancini

Publisher: Warner Bros. Publications

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 9780898986679

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A practical guide to professional orchestration featuring recorded musical examples performed by Henry Mancini. Included in the book are sections on the woodwinds, brass, the rhythm section and the string section. A recording is included to follow along with the printed scores.


Did They Mention the Music?

Did They Mention the Music?

Author: Henry Mancini

Publisher: Cooper Square Press

Published: 2001-12-17

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1461732115

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Best known for the "dead-ant" theme to the Pink Panther films, Henry Mancini also composed the music to Peter Gunn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Orson Welles' Touch of Evil, and the Academy Award winning soundtracks to Victor/Victoria and The Days of Wine and Roses. In a career that lasted over thirty years, Mancini amassed twenty Grammy awards and more nominations than any other composer. In his memoir, written with jazz expert Lees, Mancini discusses his close friendships with Blake Edwards, Julie Andrews, and Paul Newman, his professional collaborations with Johnny Mercer, Luciano Pavarotti, and James Galway, and his achievements as a husband, father, and grandfather. A great memoir loaded with equal parts Hollywood glitz and Italian gusto.


Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini

Author: John Caps

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2012-02-15

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0252093844

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Through film composer Henry Mancini, mere background music in movies became part of pop culture--an expression of sophistication and wit with a modern sense of cool and a lasting lyricism that has not dated. The first comprehensive study of Mancini's music, Henry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music describes how the composer served as a bridge between the Big Band period of World War II and the impatient eclecticism of the Baby Boomer generation, between the grand formal orchestral film scores of the past and a modern American minimalist approach. Mancini's sound seemed to capture the bright, confident, welcoming voice of the middle class's new efficient life: interested in pop songs and jazz, in movie and television, in outreach politics but also conventional stay-at-home comforts. As John Caps shows, Mancini easily combined it all in his music. Mancini wielded influence in Hollywood and around the world with his iconic scores: dynamic jazz for the noirish detective TV show Peter Gunn, the sly theme from The Pink Panther, and his wistful folk song "Moon River" from Breakfast at Tiffany's. Through insightful close readings of key films, Caps traces Mancini's collaborations with important directors and shows how he homed in on specific dramatic or comic aspects of the film to create musical effects through clever instrumentation, eloquent musical gestures, and meaningful resonances and continuities in his scores. Accessible and engaging, this fresh view of Mancini's oeuvre and influence will delight and inform fans of film and popular music. John Caps is an award-winning writer and producer of documentaries. He served as producer, writer, and host for four seasons of the National Public Radio syndicated series The Cinema Soundtrack, featuring interviews with and music of film composers. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland. A volume in the series Music in American Life


Henry Mancini Piano Solos

Henry Mancini Piano Solos

Author: Henry Mancini

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2012-12-01

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 1480341088

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(Piano Solo Composer Collection). Piano solo arrangements of more than 30 magnificent Mancini hits! Includes: Baby Elephant Walk * Breakfast at Tiffany's * Charade * Crazy World * Days of Wine and Roses * How Soon * Moon River * Newhart Main Title Theme * Peter Gunn * The Pink Panther * A Shot in the Dark * The Thorn Birds (Main Theme) * Two for the Road * Whistling Away the Dark * and more.


The Music of Henry Mancini Plus One (20 Great Songs to Play with Orchestral Accompaniment)

The Music of Henry Mancini Plus One (20 Great Songs to Play with Orchestral Accompaniment)

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Publisher: Warner Bros. Publications

Published: 1998-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780769218847

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The arrangements on the CD feature a jazz trio and, in some cases, a full orchestra. All books are compatible with each other and are playable in any instrumental combination. Titles include: Baby Elephant Walk * Breakfast at Tiffany's * Days of Wine and Roses * Le Jazz Hot! * Moon River * Peter Gunn * The Pink Panther and more.


The Henry Mancini Easy Piano Collection

The Henry Mancini Easy Piano Collection

Author: Henry Mancini

Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation

Published: 2011-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781617740527

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(Easy Piano Composer Collection). Easy arrangements of 22 classics by Academy Award- and Grammy Award-winning composer Henry Mancini. Songs include: Baby Elephant Walk * Charade * The Days of Wine and Roses * Dear Heart * Inspector Clouseau Theme * Moon River * Peter Gunn * The Pink Panther * Whistling Away the Dark * The Thorn Birds * and more.


Case history of a film score

Case history of a film score

Author: Henry Mancini

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9780757922664

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This text, designed as a tool for the college classroom, gives the reader insight into the creative process used by master film composer Henry Mancini. Edited by Roy Phillippe, the book provides 16 musical examples and includes a CD with recordings from the original soundtrack. The text provides detailed analysis of the ideology and technique behind Mancini's creation of music to be paired with the film's storyline and its images. A must for any aspiring film composer, film music buff, or Mancini fan!


My Friend, Henry Mancini

My Friend, Henry Mancini

Author: John Weitzel

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2017-03-07

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 1512776297

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To the world, the name Henry Mancini brings back memories of amazing songs like Moon River, The Pink Panther Theme, and hundreds more written for movies and television. This prolific composer, arranger, and conductor won Academy, Grammy, and Oscar awards. To John Weitzel, Henry Mancini is simply the name of his best friend since seventh grade in Aliquippa, PA, and throughout life. For the first time, John has shared his stories of growing up with Henry Mancini. You will smile, laugh, and even shed a few tears as you read stories of escapades the two shared. John commented, “We are confident that, even after so many years, there is still a very large audience of Henry Mancini fans who will appreciate our new stories about this beloved man.”


Collecting Shakespeare

Collecting Shakespeare

Author: Stephen H. Grant

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2014-04-26

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1421411873

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The first biography of Henry and Emily Folger, who acquired the largest and finest collection of Shakespeare in the world. In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger. Shortly after marrying in 1885, the Folgers started buying, cataloging, and storing all manner of items about Shakespeare and his era. Emily earned a master's degree in Shakespeare studies. The frugal couple worked passionately as a tight-knit team during the Gilded Age, financing their hobby with the fortune Henry earned as president of Standard Oil Company of New York, where he was a trusted associate of John D. Rockefeller Sr. While a number of American universities offered to house the collection, the Folgers wanted to give it to the American people. Afraid the price of antiquarian books would soar if their names were revealed, they secretly acquired prime real estate on Capitol Hill near the Library of Congress. They commissioned the design and construction of an elegant building with a reading room, public exhibition hall, and the Elizabethan Theatre. The Folger Shakespeare Library was dedicated on the Bard's birthday on April 23, 1932. The library houses 82 First Folios, 277,000 books, and 60,000 manuscripts. It welcomes more than 100,000 visitors a year and provides professors, scholars, graduate students, and researchers from around the world with access to the collections. It is also a vibrant center in Washington, DC, for cultural programs, including theater, concerts, lectures, and poetry readings. With unprecedented access to the primary sources within the Folger vault, Grant draws on interviews with surviving Folger relatives and visits to 35 related archives in the United States and in Britain to create a portrait of the remarkable couple who ensured that Shakespeare would have a beautiful home in America.