FILM MUSIC NOTES: Volume 1
(October 1941 to May/June 1942)
LEGEND: Asterisk (*) means article includes musical examples. Info in (parentheses) is the author of the article. Info in {curly brackets} is the composer connected with that article. If the composer and author are the same, there is a double bracket ({like this}). Info in [square brackets] is additional information about the article. Comments? Corrections? Questions? E-mail me via this link.
FILM MUSIC NOTES – OCTOBER 1941 – VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1
[7 pages; Note: number of pages typically includes cover; page one is first page after the cover.]
- Foreword
- Commendations by Noted Musicians [on the Importance of Music in Films]
- Things a Motion Picture Composer Has To Think About (Roy Webb)
- Review of Pictures Released Since May 1st, 1941 and Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Blood and Sand (Alfred Newman & Vincente Gomez); Blossoms in the Dust (Herbert Stothart); Citizen Kane (Bernard Herrmann) [with comment by Herrmann]; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Franz Waxman); Father Takes a Wife (Roy Webb); It Started with Eve (Charles Previn, mus. dir.); Ladies in Retirement (Ernest Toch); The Little Foxes (Meredith Willson); Lydia (Miklós Rózsa); New Wine (Franz Schubert, arr. Rózsa); Sergeant York (Max Steiner); Smilin' Through (Stothart); Unfinished Business (Waxman); When Ladies Meet (Bronislau Kaper). (Reviews by Grace Widney Mabee & Adelaide Gescheidt)
FILM MUSIC NOTES – NOVEMBER 1941 – VOLUME 1, NUMBER 2
[8 pages]
- Foreword
- Comments and News on Film Music
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Birth of the Blues (Robert Emmett Dolan, composer, music supervisor/director; Victor Schertzinger, mus. dir. [?]); Blues in the Night (Heinz Roemheld); The Chocolate Soldier (Oscar Straus, music; Stothart & Kaper, mus. dirs.); Dumbo (Oliver Wallace & Frank Churchill, music; Ned Washington, lyrics); How Green Was My Valley (Newman, mus. dir.); Lady Be Good (Ira & George Gershwin, music; Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, Roger Edens, Arthur Freed, additional songs); One Foot in Heaven (Leo F. Forbstein, mus. dir; Steiner, music); Sundown (Rózsa); The Maltese Falcon (Adolph Deutsch); This Woman is Mine (Previn, mus. dir; Richard Hageman, music [with comment by Hageman]). (Reviews by Grace Widney Mabee & Adelaide Gescheidt)
- Records and Publications of Film Music Available: New Wine; The Chocolate Soldier; Birth of the Blues; Lydia Waltz.
FILM MUSIC NOTES – DECEMBER 1941 – VOLUME 1, NUMBER 3
[7 pages]
- Foreword
- Comments and Open Forum
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Kings Row; Louisiana Purchase; Swamp Water; Road to Happiness; Suspicion [with comment by Waxman]; The Ballet Russe; At the Stroke of Twelve; The Tell Tale Heart. (Grace Widney Mabee; Adelaide Gescheidt)
- Cartoons: Dance of the Weed; The Night Before Christmas. {Bradley}
- Increasing Interest in Short Subjects
- Looking Forward
FILM MUSIC NOTES – JANUARY 1942 – VOLUME 1, NUMBER 4
[7 pages]
- Foreword: "When Nations Can Sing Together They Will Not War With One Another"
- Comments and Open Forum
- Looking Forward
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Babes on Broadway; Ball of Fire; Corsican Brothers; Kathleen; H.M. Pulham, Esq.; Playmates; Remember The Day; They Died With Their Boots On; Shanghai Gesture; The Vanishing Virginian; Weekend for Three. (Grace Widney Mabee; Adelaide Gescheidt)
- The Orchestrator and His Importance to the Photoplay Score (Chauncey Haines, Jr.)
- The American Scene: Today and Yesterday
FILM MUSIC NOTES – FEBRUARY 1942 – VOLUME 1, NUMBER 5
[7 pages]
- Foreword
- Comments and Open Forum
- Looking Forward
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: The Man Who Came To Dinner; The Light of India; Valley of the Sun; Joe Smith, American; Young America; Shanghai Gesture; Mr. Bug Goes to Town; The New Spirit; Joan of Paris [with comment by Roy Webb]. (Grace Widney Mabee; Adelaide Gescheidt)
- Cartoon Music of the Future ({Scott Bradley})
- Puppetoons
- Composers of Film Music
FILM MUSIC NOTES – MARCH 1942 – VOLUME 1, NUMBER 6
[7 pages]
- Foreword
- Comments: How to Listen to Film Music
- News Items of Interest
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Born to Sing; Captains of the Clouds; The Invaders; Mister V; The Remarkable Andrew; Sullivan's Travels; To Be or Not To Be; Fantasia; Reap the Wild Wind [with lengthy discussion]; Woman of the Year; List of Family Films. (Grace Widney Mabee; Adelaide Gescheidt)
- The California Junior Symphony (Naomi Reynolds)
FILM MUSIC NOTES – APRIL 1942 – VOLUME 1, NUMBER 7
[7 pages]
- Foreword
- Comments; Open Forum; News Items of Interest
- The Auroratone
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Jungle Book. (Vernon Leftwich, review and appreciation)
- Scoring Jungle Book ({Miklós Rózsa})
- Reviews of Current Pictures, continued: Kings Row [with further discussion of film which was in December 1941 issue]; Male Animal; The Bashful Bachelor; The Adventures of Martin Eden; The Remarakble Mr. Kipps. (Grace Widney Mabee; Adelaide Gescheidt)
- Tales of Manhattan ({Sol Kaplan})
- Musicians in Hollywood (Eleanore Rogers)
FILM MUSIC NOTES – MAY-JUNE 1942 – VOLUME 1, NUMBER 8
[9 pages]
- Foreword
- Comments and News Items of Interest [Rózsa gives a lecture on "The Vicissitudes of Motion Picture Music"]
- Reviews of Current Pictures From the Viewpoint of Music Interest Commended by the Motion Picture Preview Committee of Hollywood and New York: Don Cossack Chorus [Short]; Spanish Fiesta [Short]; The Gold Rush; In This Our Life; My Gal Sal; Rio Rita; Ship Ahoy; The Tuttles of Tahiti. (Grace Widney Mabee; Adelaide Gescheidt)
- Summer Releases: George Pal Puppetoons; Walt Disney's Film Survey Trip Through South America; RKO Radio Studios: Syncopation; The Magnificent Ambersons; Journey Into Fear; Paramount: Holiday Inn; The Great Man's Lady; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: For Me and My Gal; I Married an Angel; Seven Sisters; Scott Bradley cartoons; Warner Bros.: The Gay Sisters; The Constant Nymph; Yankee Doodle Dandy.
- Bambi {Frank Churchill; Edward Plumb}
- Russian Music (Constance Purdy)
- Some Interesting Data on the Activities of Film Musicians Outside of the Studios
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