“An Entire Sacred Effort”: Hymnody and Mythopoetics in John Williams’s Score for Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012)

Review of: Music by John Williams, Laurent Bouzereau (dir.) (2024), USA: Lucasfilm

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Q&A with Oscar-nominated sound editor Douglas Murray (The Batman; Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me). In conversation with James Denis Mc Glynn

The seventeenth meeting of the ‘Music and Media’ study group of the International Musicological Society will take place in-person on June 11-12 2026 in the School of Music at University...

An open invitation to artists, writers, musicians, and dreamers of all ages The Expansive Canvas is a three-day international conference and celebration of music by women composers in the long ninetee...

The theatrical release of A Quiet Place Part II (AQPII) in May 2021, following months of cinema closures due to COVID-19, was dubbed a ‘referendum on the future of moviegoing’ (Paramount). The film imagines a post-apocalyptic future where humans must ...

Registration for The Expansive Canvas is now open via this link. The full programme for the Conference and Collaborative Symposium is now available for download.

With the return of Star Wars to the big screen in 2015 came the promise of new music by John Williams, not least new leitmotifs. Yet, in the era of the “legacy sequel” (Golding 2019), the shadow of th...