CHARLES FRANCIS LEINBERGER, PH.D. Publications on Italian Film Music Composer Ennio Morricone

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Music in the Western: Notes from the Frontier (October, 2011) Music in the Western: Notes from the Frontier is the third volume in Routledge's Music and Screen Media Series. It is a collection of essays on music composed for, or otherwise used in, film scores for the western genre. I am delighted to be a contributing author to this anthology. Although my topic is the music that Ennio Morricone composed for the western of Sergio Leone, it focuses mainly on the so-called "Dollars" trilogy: A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. I also discuss, in much more detail than in my Scarecrow monograph of 2004, the possible influence on Morricone by Dmitri Tiomkin, the latter's music for Rio Bravo in particular, and the subsequent influence of Morricone on composers of music for more recent westerns. While conducting research for this essay in 2010, I watched no less than 57 westerns, many of them starring John Wayne or Clint Eastwood. Others were by little-known Italian directors, many were Hollywood films, and still others were made in other countries, such as Japan and Korea. If you have a chance to read this anthology, please let me know what you think (charlesl@utep.edu).

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Ennio Morricone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Film Score Guide (2004) In 2002, due to an unusual series of events, I ended submitting a proposal to Scarecrow Press for a volume in their series of Film Score Guides, edited by Kate Daubney. My proposal was accepted, and in 2003 I went to Rome to meet with and interview Ennio Morricone. I submitted the final draft of the book in early 2004, and the book was published in August of that year. The book focused on events leading up to the creation of this innovative score. Much of the book was my analysis of the music, but I did not have the advantage of studying the original manuscript of the score as I had done for my dissertation on Max Steiner's music for Now, Voyager. Unfortunately, it did not focus very much on other composers who may have influenced, or been influenced by, Morricone. Since 2004, my research on Morricone has continued. Some of that research is included in the Routledge anthology mentioned above, Music in the Western: Typically American. My research on Morricone's micro-cell technique has only appeared in lectures I have given in the United States and in England. If you have a chance to read this monograph, please let me know what you think (charlesl@utep.edu).

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