John Williams: Bibliography

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Books

Knowing the Score: Notes on Film Music, Irwin Bazelon
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1975. 352pp.
ISBN 0-442-20594-5

Overtones and Undertones, Royal S. Brown
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. 396pp.
ISBN 0-520-08320-2 (paper: 0-520-08544-2)

TV’s Biggest Hits: The Story of Television Themes from “Dragnet” to “Friends”, Jon Burlingame
New York: Schirmer, 1996. 338pp.
ISBN 0-02-870324-3

American Film Music: Major Composers, Techniques, Trends, 1915–1990, William Darby and Jack Du Bois
Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 1990. 605pp.

Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops, Harry Ellis Dickson
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. 174pp.
ISBN 0-395-30524-1
Epilogue by John Williams

Beating Time: A Musician’s Memoir, Harry Ellis Dickson
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995. 203pp.
Foreword by John Williams.

Settling the Score: Music and the Classical Hollywood Film, Kathryn Kalinak
Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. 248pp.
ISBN 0-299-13364-8

On the Track: A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring, Fred Karlin and Rayburn Wright
New York: Schirmer, 1990. 856pp.
ISBN 0-02-873310-X
Foreword by John Williams

Listening to Movies, Fred Karlin
New York: Schirmer, 1994. 429pp.
ISBN 0-02-873315-0

Musical Content and the Thematic Process in the Star Wars Concert Suites of John Williams, Bill Joseph Poché
Master’s Thesis, San Diego State University, 1995. 174pp.

A Heart at Fire’s Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann, Steven C. Smith
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. 415pp.
ISBN 0-520-07123-9

Cinema Sheet Music: A Comprehensive Listing of Published Film Music from Squaw Man (1914) to Batman (1989), Donald J. Stubblebine
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1991. 628pp.

Film Score: The Art & Craft of Movie Music, Tony Thomas
Burbank, California: Riverwood Press, 1991. 340pp.
ISBN 1-880756-01-3