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Featured Article:  Tommy Smith '85: Scotland's Hardest Working Jazzman

Featured Article: Abraham Laboriel '72 on Rewarding Journey to First Bass

Featured Article: Ramin Djawadi '98: Themes of Thrones

Featured Article: Pat Metheny: No Boundaries

Featured Article: Quincy Jones '51: The Best is Yet to Come

Featured Article: Woodwind Modernist Joe Lovano '72: Blending Invention with Jazz Tradition

Featured Article: Jan Hammer '69 on scoring with "Miami Vice", Mahavisnu and Beyound the Mind's Eye

Featured Article: Al Di Meola '74: A look back and forward 20 years after RTF

Featured Article:  Joe Zawinul '59 on jazz, folklore and life in the new Syndicate

Featured article:  Ernie Watts '66 on the Common Chords of Contemporary Music 

A study of soundtracks for books.

Featured Article: Brad Whitford '71 and Joey Kramer '70: Nine Lives with Aerosmith

Featured Article: Alf Clausen '66: The inside story on scoring the hit series "The Simpsons"

Featured Article: Alan Silvestri '70 on Scoring the Hits

These materials appear to be related to Part One of SSOMC Book XII (Theory of Orchestration).

An analysis of the music, instrumentation/orchestration, and themes from the musical score written by Michael Giacchino for the movie Ratatouille.

Featured Article: Harvie Swartz '70: At the top of the list of New York's bottomliners

I my CE thesis, I attempt to analyse the music from the motion picture "The Shawshank Redemption", trying to, on one hand, describe its narrative and emotional function in the film, answering to the question "why does it work?", and, on the other hand, justifying why this film was the founding work for the establishment of Thomas Newman's characteristic musical language, as a film composer.