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Reed Rapture

The Saxophone on Movie

Soundtracks

Geoff Wills

KEY SELLING POINTS

A unique and informative book on film music focusing exclusively on the use of the saxophone.
A great companion for students studying film music, anyone interested in the composition of music in
movie soundtracks or jazz fans.
Author is a former professional musician.

Movie soundtrack music is big business. In both film studios and at major record labels, entire divisions focus
exclusively on marketing movie music.

Film composers like John Williams have become internationally famous figures, and concerts of their music
are regular occurrences. But while interest in movie music has greatly increased, both academically and among
the public, focus on individual aspects of the music have been overlooked. Yet what movie-goer can forget the
opening scene to Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver? Behind the taxicab emerging from a cloud of vapour and the
eyes of Robert De Niro, a haunting, yearning alto saxophone melody is heard, and it’s just one example of the
power of the saxophone, a presence throughout the history of movie music, from the 1930s to the present day,
highlighting scenes of drama, romance, and comedy, and making a vital contribution to the music which can be
urgent, immediate, sweet, seductive, intimate, and erotic.

Reed Rapture is the first study to describe the background, the history, and the numerous important
appearances of the saxophone on movie soundtracks, drawing on both jazz and classical influences, and, as
such, makes a vital contribution to film music studies.

Geoff Wills is a former professional musician and clinical psychologist. He is the author of Pressure
Sensitive (1988) and Zappa and Jazz (2015), and has contributed to Psychology of Music, The British Journal
of Psychiatry, International Musician, jazz.com, Jazz Journal and the book Frank Zappa and the And (2013).

Publication Date: 28th May 2024 £13.99 ISBN: 9781805143772
Thema subject category: AVA – Theory of music and musicology
paperback 198 x 129 mm 136 pp Portrait Author location: Cheshire

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