Catching Dreams: Editing Film Scores for Publication

Abstract

There is a need for published film-score editions in film musicology, both to preserve the contents of manuscripts and to aid critical readings of films. How to accomplish this, without re-inscribing the Romantic conceptions of authorship commonly associated with edition creation, is the subject of this article. After considering the relevant editorial problems and models, a postmodern ‘anti-edition’ is proposed, using examples drawn from Korngold's score for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938).

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Ben Winters

Ben Winters ([email protected]) is University Research Fellow in Musicology at City University, London. He is the author of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's The Adventures of Robin Hood: A Film Score Guide (Lanham, MD, 2007) and has contributed to the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Film Music.