Female Composers

[HPFAN_2 0]

I'm sure this topic has come up before, if it has forgive me. Since i am a blatant newbie to the whole movie score thing i have never heard of any female composers. Why is that? I don't think women are incapable of composing master peaces. And if there is can you tell me some good ones.

[Morlock 11]

I think Rachel Portman is the only major one.

[Morn 8]

Too bad her music is always sweet and feminish.

[Morlock 11]

True, but she has some good stuff (Even though most of it is gentle piano...).

I like her theme for Emma, and I like the main motif in The Human Stain. I havn't heard anything of hers that's unpleasent, which is more than I can say for most composers.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

I wish Shirley walker would get more to do, she's the only women out there who doesn't compose like a girl.

Stefancos- who really enjoyed Walker/Carpenter's Escape From L.A.

[jw2285gd 0]

Great Score Stefancos......yeah she is a great composer......but what has Shirly worked on latley, I tried to see if she had any upcoming projects...could not find anything.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Assassin's Creed Unity comes out next week, and two volumes of the score drop on iTunes tomorrow. Chris Tilton and Ryan Amon are two of the three composers that have worked on it. The third? Sarah Schachner, apparently a pupil on Brian Tyler's.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

HPFAN_2! That's a blast from the past.

He was a tosser.

[Dixon Hill 4,234]

When I was studying a decade or so ago, I was one of three male students that my teacher saw - he had something like two dozen private students in all at the time. I hope they all go on to be extremely successful. Film music needs more women.

[Jay 37,363]

Assassin's Creed Unity comes out next week, and two volumes of the score drop on iTunes tomorrow. Chris Tilton and Ryan Amon are two of the three composers that have worked on it. The third? Sarah Schachner, apparently a pupil on Brian Tyler's.

sarah.jpg

Oooh! It says she worked on Brian Tyler's Now You See Me, but I dunno what she did because there's nothing from it on her soundcloud, and when you click on the Now You See Me link on her homepage, it just shows you a giant version of the film's poster

[tannhauser 101]

There's Clara Schumann . . . .

[nightscape94 965]

In terms of movie scoring, Debbie Wiseman.

[BloodBoal 7,538]

[Jay 37,363]

Well, IMDB says she did "musical score arrangements" for it

[Thor 7,504]

For what I think is a nice overview, check out my episode of Celluloid Tunes on this very topic:

http://celluloidtunes.no/celluloid-tunes-05-women-in-film-music-1st-international-edition/

[Jay 37,363]

No mention of Andrea Datzman? The scores to Alcatraz were the best TV scoring of 2012!

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Assassin's Creed Unity comes out next week, and two volumes of the score drop on iTunes tomorrow. Chris Tilton and Ryan Amon are two of the three composers that have worked on it. The third? Sarah Schachner, apparently a pupil on Brian Tyler's.

sarah.jpg

Oooh! It says she worked on Brian Tyler's Now You See Me, but I dunno what she did because there's nothing from it on her soundcloud, and when you click on the Now You See Me link on her homepage, it just shows you a giant version of the film's poster

Yeah she's worked on a bunch of his scores. I'm just amazed that there's an incredibly attractive young female composer working today!

[Jay 37,363]

She ain't the only one.

[karelm 2,913]

Don't forget Jane Cornish. Fans of old school Horner and JW will enjoy her Island of Lost Souls. Check out track 5:

http://www.amazon.com/Island-Lost-Souls-Antonia-Cornish/dp/B0026EPPW6

[Sharkissimo 1,973]

My favourite (living) film composer is Anne Dudley. Art of Noise were one of the best bands of the 80s thanks to her, and AMERICAN HISTORY X is a terrific score.

[Matt C 454]

In terms of movie scoring, Debbie Wiseman.

This. Her themes are always good (especially Wilde), even if the soundtrack releases tend to be repetitive.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,528]

Angela Morley is great. "Watership Down".

Wendy Carlos is good, also.

Delia Derbyshire deserves to cannonised, for what she did!!!!

As she wrote a song for a film...can I include Kate Bush..?

[Gnome in Plaid 219]

I'll add Anne Dudley on the merits of American History X alone, although I don't like the rest of her output.

Also, Heather McIntosh, even though the only one of her scores that's been released yet is Compliance, but it's really good!

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

It really is a man's industry.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,528]

#This is a man's world.

But it would be nothin' without a woman#

[Matt C 454]

It really is a man's industry.

In terms of the folks getting prime scoring gigs, yes.

Debbie Wiseman's carved out a name for herself in the UK, she's scored a lot of TV shows and smaller films (mostly for BBC, maybe she has a contract with them). I'm surprised none of the U.S. music producers heard her work... I think if more heard her work for Arsene Lupin, they'd be suggesting her for their next projects. She has a more distinctive sound than Rachel Portman.

I wish Shirley Walker was still living. I'd love to see what she would be working on now.

[Brónach 1,302]

I like Yoko Kanno.

Debbie Wiseman's carved out a name for herself in the UK, she's scored a lot of TV shows and smaller films (mostly for BBC, maybe she has a contract with them). I'm surprised none of the U.S. music producers heard her work... I think if more heard her work for Arsene Lupin, they'd be suggesting her for their next projects. She has a more distinctive sound than Rachel Portman.

Shit, I just remembered I need to listen to Arsene Lupin, I once overheard a bit of it when they were running that on TV and I was like... that's interesting.

[nightscape94 965]

Good score.

[Matt C 454]

I like Yoko Kanno.

Debbie Wiseman's carved out a name for herself in the UK, she's scored a lot of TV shows and smaller films (mostly for BBC, maybe she has a contract with them). I'm surprised none of the U.S. music producers heard her work... I think if more heard her work for Arsene Lupin, they'd be suggesting her for their next projects. She has a more distinctive sound than Rachel Portman.

Shit, I just remembered I need to listen to Arsene Lupin, I once overheard a bit of it when they were running that on TV and I was like... that's interesting.

Here you go.

[Gnome in Plaid 219]

I like Yoko Kanno.

Any relation to Yoshihiro Kanno?

[Matt C 454]

Let's not forget Lolita Ritmanis, she worked with Shirley Walker on the animated Batman and Superman shows with several other composers. Her work on "Little Girl Lost" and her contributions to "World's Finest Part 3" were terrific.

[Dixon Hill 4,234]

The Justice League theme is quality.

[Matt C 454]

I forgot she did the JL theme. Great stuff, that one.

[Bespin 8,481]

I think that comparing to men, who can naturally achieve totally abstract and useless things (at short term), like composing classical music, wowen aren't able. Or I must say, it doesn't come to them as naturally as for men.

Then, I think men are obsessed by the idea to "leave" something behind them. I don't think that's so important for women in general, but there are exceptions, thankfully.

Well, that's my two cents.

[Dixon Hill 4,234]

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[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Always interesting to hear a gay man's opinion about women....

[Dixon Hill 4,234]

They have the courage to say what we're all thinking. Women's brains aren't really built for anything outside the kitchen or petty gossip with friends.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Mrs. Pilgim not in today?

[Jay 37,363]

I think that comparing to men, who can naturally achieve totally abstract and useless things (at short term), like composing classical music, wowen aren't able. Or I must say, it doesn't come to them as naturally as for men.

Then, I think men are obsessed by the idea to "leave" something behind them. I don't think that's so important for women in general, but there are exceptions, thankfully.

Well, that's my two cents.

WTF??

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Idiotic, isnt it...

[Wojo 2,453]

Well if you're looking at the age of Mozart and Beethoven, and counting the number of female composers from that time period, and derive conclusions about anatomy without considering the socioeconomic role of women and the opportunities they had at the time, you have serious issues with deduction.

[Bespin 8,481]

Well if you're looking at the age of Mozart and Beethoven, and counting the number of female composers from that time period, and derive conclusions about anatomy without considering the socioeconomic role of women at the time, you have serious issues with deduction.

I don't speak about anatomy, I speak about real women and men living on this earth. Well, of course, women never had the chance of men regarding the equality of chances, education and socioeconomic situation.

Today, that's different and for the better!

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

I think that comparing to men, who can naturally achieve totally abstract and useless things (at short term), like composing classical music, wowen aren't able. Or I must say, it doesn't come to them as naturally as for men.

Then, I think men are obsessed by the idea to "leave" something behind them. I don't think that's so important for women in general, but there are exceptions, thankfully.

Well, that's my two cents.

Wait, you mean sheilas aren't as interested in leaving behind a "legacy" as men are? Interesting idea, but awkwardly expressed and too tenuously connected to the discussion.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Up until very recently women did not have the possibility of expressing themselves artistically.

Women have been the subject of art since the beginning of time, but weren't able to be artists themselves. What are the first examples of accepted female artistic expression which actually had a signature? The writings of the Jane Austin and women from here period? And even there there weren't a lot of female sculpters, painters etc around I think.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Women had a huge influence on Hollywood films in the silent era because so many of them worked in the industry. That's according to The Story of Film doco by Mark Cousins.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

In what time period did the first female composers come along when it came to orchestral music? Any of our musically educated members know?

[Hlao-roo 389]

Not to mention queer women of color.

[A24 4,333]

The experts have been saying for centuries that women are more interested in earthly things and that men are the dreamers. Could this have played a part in the shortage of female artists? Any Dr. historians around here?

Alex

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

I was attempting a serious question.

[Bespin 8,481]

I will add another layer.

Once a woman has childs, it becomes the center of his universe and nothing, understand me, NOTHING exists that is more important than them.

That gives them a capital gain that the other genre has unfortunately not.