For nearly twenty years scholar and critic Royal S Brown contributed a regular column Film Musings to Fanfare magazine This single volume assembles the material from these columns and presents Browns reviews of significant recordings of movie scores Although many of the reviews are of original soundtrack recordings for films released during the columns run a number of the reviews also cover reissues of earlier recordings as well as newly recorded versions of classic scores In certain instances Brown was even able to include in his column interviews with composers such as David Raksin Laura and Howard Shore The Silence of the Lambs concerning new recordings of their musicAn expert on film and film music Brown frequently offers controversial perspectives not just on the music but also on the film for which the music was composed and in many cases he stresses the interactions between the cinematic action and the score an aspect generally ignored by most filmmusic critics His perceptions