CURRENT TRENDS

Film Music of the nineties

Because of the weak representation of information on film music in the Croatian press, both in its popular and professional form, the author tries to give some fundamental referential data on the work of the most significant film composers of the nineties. After a review of the history of the medium, short essays are dedicated to David Arnold, John Barry, Patrick Doyle, Danny Elfman, Eliot Goldenthal, Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, Michael Kamen, Randy Newman, James Newton Howard, Michael Nyman, Alan Menken, Howard Shore, Alan Silvestri, John Williams and Hans Zimmer, whom the author believes to be the key composers of the period.

After that, in a separate essay, there is a short review of the work of other well known names in international film music (24 composers), with a reminder that, due to their greater representation on the music market, a large number of the composers are Anglo-American.

It should also be added that the text has no pretensions of comprehensiveness in this, in fact, very broad medium. The text concludes with a brief view of the basic changes in film music publishing in this decade.

Vladimir C. Sever