Scoring Italian cinema patterns of collaboration

"Scoring Italian Cinema: Patterns of Collaboration revisits the great theme of artistic collaboration from a heretofore unexplored angle: the relationship between film directors and composers in the 'Long Italian Post-War' (ca. 1945-1975). Spurred by the surfacing of significant primary sources, ranging from printed and manuscript scores to sketches, drafts, tapes, letters, and miscellaneous notes, eight music and film scholars examine afresh the partnerships between such figures as Fellini and Rota, De Santis and Petrassi, Antonioni and Fusco, Rosi and Piccioni, Petri and Morricone, and Argento and Goblin. The volume also brings to light the role of conductors, performers as well as producers and screenwriters in crafting the soundtracks of some of the most important films in the history of Italian cinema, including Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro, 1949), La strada (1954), and Salvatore Giuliano (1962).The intrinsically polyvocal nature of the process of completing a score, such as it emerges in the case studies gathered in Scoring Italian Cinema, invite us to rethink of composing for the films as a new kind of expanded, distributed musical practice"--