Mervyn Cooke

Author of A History of Film Music

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About the Author

Mervyn Cooke is Professor of Music at the University of Nottingham. His many books include monographs and edited volumes on the music of Benjamin Britten, Jazz, twentieth-century opera, and film music.

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A History of Film Music (2008) 37 copies

The Chronicle of Jazz (1997) 37 copies

Jazz (World of Art) (1998) 31 copies

The Cambridge Companion to Jazz (2003) — Editor — 27 copies

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera (2005) — Editor — 21 copies

The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten (1999) — Editor — 18 copies

Britten: War Requiem (1996) 15 copies

The Hollywood Film Music Reader (2010) 14 copies, 1 review

Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984 (Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz) (2017) 14 copies

Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd (1993) 12 copies

The Cambridge companion to film music (2016) 7 copies

Britten and the Far East : Asian influences in the music of Benjamin Britten (1998) 3 copies

Jazz (2000) 3 copies

Benjamin Britten, Billy Budd 2 copies

L'Histoire du jazz (2014) 2 copies

Chronique du jazz 1 copy

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Birthdate: 1963-08-29
Gender: male
Nationality: UK

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The Hollywood Film Music Reader by Mervyn Cooke

Collection of various 20th-century documents about classical Hollywood music (that is, not about popular music incorporated into films), often from the composer’s-eye view, including attention to music for cartoons.

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