Composers and their craft

Abstract Where do film composers come from? How do composers work when they are scoring a film? What processes do they use? How do these processes differ across different nations and different eras? “Composers and their craft” looks at the composers of some of the most memorable and recognizable music in the world and sketches a picture of the personalities and processes involved. New material since the publication of the first edition in 2010 includes attention to outsourcing in the production of film music, African American composers, women and minority composers in the United States and globally, Ukrainian composers, and recent film scores such as Joker, Soul, Emma, Manchester by the Sea, Jackie, and Encanto.