Compositional Process in Film Scoring: An Interview of Composer/Guitarist, Part 1 of 2

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Research Article| July 01 2010 Compositional Process in Film Scoring: An Interview of Composer/Guitarist, Part 1 of 2 Ira Newborn; Ira Newborn Ira Newborn (iraleh@earthlink.net), born 26 December 1949, holds a bachelor’s degree from New York University. He is a guitarist who learned how to arrange and compose music for many purposes, two of which were The Manhattan Transfer singing group and motion picture scores such as The Blues Brothers, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Naked Gun films, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Mall Rats, and Into the Night. He serves on the Artist Faculty in Film Scoring at New York University Steinhardt’s Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ron Sadoff Ron Sadoff Ron Sadoff, Associate Professor, pianist and composer, is the architect and Director of the program in Scoring for Film and Multimedia at NYU Steinhardt’s Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions. He has been featured on CNN entertainment segments, having composed the music for the 2006 Oscar-winning film, The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation. He also scored Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood for Warner Brothers for Academy Award–winning director, Peggy Stern. With Gillian Anderson, he cofounded and is the coeditor of the University of Illinois Press journal Music and the Moving Image. His forthcoming book coauthored with Roy Prendergast, Music in Film: History, Criticism, and Analysis, will be published by W.W. Norton in 2012. Serving as Creative Director, Sadoff produced the largest concert webcast of its day, Michael Jackson and Friends from Munich, Germany in 2000. He also serves as an expert witness in music copyright cases. [http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/scoring/] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Music and the Moving Image (2010) 3 (2): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.5406/musimoviimag.3.2.0001 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ira Newborn, Ron Sadoff; Compositional Process in Film Scoring: An Interview of Composer/Guitarist, Part 1 of 2. Music and the Moving Image 1 January 2010; 3 (2): 1–13. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/musimoviimag.3.2.0001 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressMusic and the Moving Image Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2009 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2009 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.