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Film Music Notes for 1942-1944 Three original bound gatherings of all issues of the 1940s periodical

1944 · 163101 — Hollywood CA: Film Music Notes 1944. Three vintage gatherings of the periodical "Film Music Notes" FMN comprising all 26 issues published in 1942 through 1944 bound in three volumes each with titled wrappers "Film Music Notes / 1942" "Film Music Notes / 1943" and "Film Music Notes / 1944" with manuscript graphite red and blue pencil annotations on 39 pages of fourteen issues. The three gatherings found here comprise the first full three years of the periodical's publication beginning with "Volume I / January 1942 / Number IV" and ending with "Volume IV / December 1944 / Number III." Detailed inventory available upon request.<br /> <br /> The three bound gatherings are:<br /> <br /> "Film Music Notes / 1942" comprised of all eight issues published in 1942 from Vol. 1 No. IV through Vol. II No. III with each issue ranging from seven to nine pages. In 1942 FMN published only eight issues rather than the nine found in 1943 and 1944 combining the May and June issues into one "May-June 1942" issue Vol. II No. III.<br /> <br /> "Film Music Notes / 1943" comprised of all nine issues published in 1943 from Vol. II No. IV through Vol. III No. III with each issue ranging from eight to twelve pages.<br /> <br /> "Film Music Notes / 1944" comprised of all nine issues published in 1944 from Vol. III No. IV through Vol. IV No. III with each issue ranging from eleven to twenty three pages.<br /> <br /> The first issue of FMN Vol. 1 No. 1 not included in the bound volumes here was published in October 1941 and was spearheaded largely by the efforts of a group of Hollywood women on behalf of the National Federation of Music Clubs the Federation. On June 1 1941 as part of the "Festival of Motion Pictures" at the Federation's biennial American Music Festival the Federation feeling the Academy Awards were not adequately recognizing musicians and composers held their first film music awards night. The overwhelming success of the awards night as well as growing requests from music educators for resources and advise on how to teach about film music lead Federation members headed by chairperson Grace Widney Mabee to begin the publication of the groundbreaking periodical four months later which during its inception was largely built upon the Federation's existing structures and resources. In 1943 FMN was integral to the formation of the National Film Music Council NFMC created largely by Federation members and FMN contributors and editors Mabee Sigmund Spaeth FMN Advisory Chairman Constance Purdy FMN editor and others and was announced in the "Foreword" of FMN Vol. 2 No.1 October 1943 found in the volumes offered here. FMN continued publication for seventeen years ending in 1958.<br /> <br /> Issues of FMN are generally comprised of a "Foreword" followed by "Comments and Open Forum" which by the November 1942 issue Vol. II No. II had transitioned to "News Items" film reviews which focus on the use of music in film and range from five to 28 reviews per issue as well as various articles essays and biographies. Regular contributing authors found in the three bound volumes here include: Gail Kubik composer Margery Morrison FMN Associate Editor Purdy actress musician and FMN Editor Naomi Reynolds of The Musician's Congress and Spaeth musicologist author and FMN Advisory Chairman.<br /> <br /> Contributing authors found in the volumes on offer here include: <br /> <br /> Composers: Scott Bradley Rudy De Saxe Adolph Deutsch Nat W. Finston Arthur Kleiner William Lava Vernon Leftwich Alfred Newman Miklós Rózsa David Rudhyar Jack Schaindlin Max Steiner Herbert Stothart Franz Waxman Roy Webb and Charles Wolcott. <br /> <br /> As well as: Alice Evans Field MPPDA studio liason Chauncey Haines Jr. musician Hal Hall "The American Cinematographer" editor John Huntley British film historian Isabel Morse Jones LA Times critic and musician Jay Leyda experimental filmmaker Louis Lipstone head of Paramount Pictures music department Harry Mines LA Daily News critic Ivan Narodny Russian revolutionary and émigré Mildred Norton LA Daily News critic Cecil Stokes creator of the Auroratone and Dr. Bruno David Ussher musicologist and LA music critic.<br /> <br /> Articles found in the volumes on offer here include: "Cartoon Music of the Future" "George Pal's Puppetoons" "The Auroratone" "Scoring the Jungle Book" "Russian Music" "The Importance of Motion Picture Music" "Music in Government Films" a "Special Article" on Constantin Bakaleinikoff composer and Director of Music Department of RKO-Radio "Music of the Americas" "Screen Music Assumes New Stature" "Procedure of Preparing a Musical Score for a Picture" "José Iturbi Comes to the Screen" "Dmitri Shostakovich - Film Composer" "A Visit to the Music Recording Stage at Warner Bros." "What Music Arranging Does for the Pictures" "An Afternoon in the Home of Erich Wolfgang Korngold" "New Russian Music Born of War" "The Sixth Sense in Film Mechanics" "Notes on the Life and Works of Aaron Copland" "Rhapsody in Blue: A Day on the Gershwin Set" "British Film Music" "Mexican Films in Hollywood" and "An Institute of Music in Contemporary Life" among many others.<br /> <br /> All three volumes Very Good or better pages supple mimeograph duplication each bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> "Film Music Notes / 1942:" Tan titled wrappers eight issues 61 pages total. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with light soiling and edgewear bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> "Film Music Notes / 1943:" Blue titled wrappers nine issues 85 pages total. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with light soiling and edgewear bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> "Film Music Notes / 1944:" Tan titled wrappers nine issues. 132 pages total. Pages Near Fine with five paperclips on five different articles wrapper Very Good plus with light soiling edgewear and light dampstaining to the bottom left corner bound with two gold brads. Film Music Notes unknown