Music from the House of Hammer

Randall D. Larson

doi:10.5771/9781461669845

Summary

In the 1950s, Hammer Film Productions, a small British filmmaking company, introduced the world to a new genre of motion picture. Referred to by some as "horror," by others as "fantasy," Hammer films had a unique look and feel that many other studios would later attempt—and fail—to capture.

Hammer films also had a unique sound. For although the studio was small and the budgets limited, those involved in making the Hammer films recognized that the musical score was just as important as the set, the actors, and the script in telling the story.

Consequently, Hammer Films Productions recruited the best musical talent to make its films come alive. Those artists and the work they did are chronicled here in careful detail by Randall D. Larson. From the studio's fledging days, through its great successes of the 60s and early 70s, Music from the House of Hammer offers an inside look at how the "Hammer sound" was developed and nurtured.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 1996
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8108-2975-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-6984-5
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 195
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Introduction No access
4. Overture No access
1. Hammer's Early Composers No access
2. Malcolm Arnold No access
3. Ivor Slaney No access
1. John Hollingsworth No access
2. Marcus Dodds No access
3. Philip Martell No access
3: Reused Music No access Pages 15 - 16
1. Beginnings in Science Fiction No access
2. Dracula: Music for the Dark Lord No access
3. Frankenstein Created Music No access
4. Of Hounds and Mysterious Children No access
5. The Gorgon No access
6. Vampires, Zombies, and Devils No access
1. Don Banks No access
2. Humphrey Searle No access
3. Leonard Salzedo No access
4. Franz Reizenstein No access
5. Benjamin Frankel No access
6. Clifton Parker No access
7. Edwin T. Astley No access
8. Monty Norman and David Heneker No access
9. Richard Rodney Bennett No access
10. Malcolm Williamson No access
11. Stanley Black No access
12. Elisabeth Lutyens No access
13. Carlo Martelli No access
14. Wilfred Josephs No access
15. Mario Nascimbene No access
16. Tristram Cary No access
17. Gerard Schurmann No access
1. Harry Robinson and the Karnstein Trilogy No access
2. David Whitaker No access
3. Christopher Gunning No access
4. John McCabe No access
5. Laurie Johnson No access
1. Don Ellis No access
2. Roland Shaw No access
3. Michael Vickers No access
4. John Cacavas No access
5. Paul Glass No access
1. Douglas Gamley No access
2. Alun Hoddinott No access
3. Gary Hughes No access
4. Richard Hartley No access
9: Hammer's Television Music No access Pages 147 - 152
10: Coda No access Pages 153 - 154
11: "Alas Poor Hammer, I Knew it Well" No access Pages 155 - 160
1. A Composer's Filmography No access
2. Music Credits by Title No access
3. Recycled Music No access
4. Hammer Film Music Discography No access
Index No access Pages 185 - 194
About the Author No access Pages 195 - 195